Table of Contents

Section 1: Shaping the Regional Project 1. Introduction 2. Firm Strategies: Resources, Context, and Territory 3. Labor Markets and the Regional Project Section 2: Case Studies 4. The Evolution of the Optics and Imaging Industry 5. Runaway Production: Media Concentration and Spatial Competition Section 3: Learning Regions and Innovation Policies 6. The Paradox of Innovation: Why Regional Innovation Systems Produce so Little Innovation (and so Few Jobs) 7. The Learning Region Disconnect 8. Remaking Regions: Considering Scale and Combining Investment and Distribution

About the Author

Susan Christopherson is professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University. Jennifer Clark is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Reviews

"...this book makes a highly significant contribution to the literatures on corporate strategy, labour markets and regional development, offering an oftentimes withering critique of prevailing orthodoxies as it progresses." -- Professor Neil Coe, University of Manchester, UK (reviewed in the Journal of Economic Geography) "Christopherson and Clark's book is a wake-up call. It does not provide all the answers, and neither should it. It is a call for new thinking - well crafted and provocative and well supported by empirical research. It has the potential to be a turning point in new regionalist thinking and urgently needed policy development." -- Professor Michael Taylor, University of Birmingham, UK (forthcoming in Regional Studies) "Christopherson and Clark credit several planners and geographers for introducing the principles of distributive regionalism, but in this book, they provide a new conceptual basis for it-their answers to the questions of actors, agency, and power." -- Professor James Harrington, Department of Geography, University of Washington, USA (reviewed in Economic Geography) "!the empirical detail and breadth of discussion is nuanced, convincing, and worth reading. The underlying message is that SMEs compete with their larger counter parts in terms of access to critical factor markets and inputs." -- Professor Alan MacPherson, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, USA (published in Growth and Change) "Given the power and timeliness of these arguments, this volume deserves a multi-disciplinary and multi-level academic, as well as an extensive policy-making, readership." -- Journal of Economic Geography "These empirical studies are based on a rich and wide literature on the global economy and the region: which makes it easy to agree that the book is both interesting and insightful for a range of students and researchers of the social science disciplines. ...Certainly, it is of value for buying and reading!" -- Katariina Ala-Rami, Department of Geography, University of Oulu. (published in Economic Geography Research Group Book Reviews)