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It is widely recognised that the performance and development of firms are heavily influenced by their environment and that the conditions that prevail in the local or regional milieu seem to be particularly important. Furthermore, the fact that economic, entrepreneurial and innovative activities tend to agglomerate at certain places, leading to patterns of national and regional specialization, is increasingly seen to give important insights into the very process of firm competitiveness and industrial transformation. Drawing on a rich literature and case study material from selected industries, and elaborating on key concepts such as firms and competencies, industries and industrial systems, and competitiveness and prosperity, the authors set out to answer some broad research questions: * what is competition about in today's economy, and how is the performance of firms and industries related to space and place? * why do geographical areas (local milieus, cities, regions, countries) specialize in particular types of economic activity, and why do patterns of specialization, once in place, tend to be so tremendously durable? * how can high-cost regions in general and small industrialized countries in particular sustain competitiveness and prosperity in an increasingly globally integrated world economy? This book points the way out of a dilemma created by recent industrial theory and policy: is it possible for countries which are not destined to be leading high-tech powers to take advantage of the current conjecture of increasingly open markets?

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Author:   Heikki Eskelinen ,  Ingjaldur Hannibalsson ,  Anders Malmberg ,  Peter Maskell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   No.14
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780415154284

ISBN 10:   0415154286
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   25 December 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface 1 Regional specialisation and localised learning—An introduction PART I Ubiquitification, knowledge and localised capabilites 2 Sustainable patterns of specialisation in a globalised economy 3 Firm competitiveness through knowledge creation 4 Localised capabilities and the competitiveness of regions and countries PART II Small countries, localised learning and lack of learning: the cases of furniture, fish and phones 5 Small nations: how to sustain prosperity in open, low-tech economies 6 Comfort and competitiveness: the wooden furniture industry 7 Natural resources and the institutional endowment: the fishing industry 8 Footloose communications: the mobile phone industry PART III Conclusions and policy implications 9 Towards a learning-based industrial and regional policy

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Peter Maskell is Professor in Regional Economics at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Heikki Eskelinen is an economist and Head of the Social Science Department at the Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland. Ingjaldur Hannibalsson is Associate Professor in Operations Management in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Iceland. Anders Malmberg is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden. Eirik Vatne is Professor in Economic Geography at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway.

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