Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge EconomySince the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global economy. In fields as diverse as business management, industrial relations, economic geography, sociology, and planning, the regional scale has emerged as an organizing concept for interpretations of economic change. This book is both a critique of the "new regionalism" and a return to the "regional question," including all of its concerns with equity and uneven development. It will challenge researchers and students to consider the region as a central scale of action in the global economy. At the core of the book are case studies of two industries that rely on skilled, innovative, and flexible workers - the optics and imaging industry and the film and television industry. Combined with this is a discussion of the regions that constitute their production centers. The authors’ intensive research on photonics and entertainment media firms, both large and small, leads them to question some basic assumptions behind the new regionalism and to develop an alternative framework for understanding regional economic development policy. Finally, there is a re-examination of what the regional question means for the concept of the learning region. This book draws on the rich contemporary literature on the region but also addresses theoretical questions that preceded "the new regionalism." It will contribute to teaching and research in a range of social science disciplines. |
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... innovative firms in their industry network, the regions in which they reside ... capacities and strategies of firms operating in international markets. By ... capacity to strategically combine different location and labor force options ...
... innovative capacity, and access to high-skilled labor. They look to regional policy as an instrumental vehicle to reduce their costs and risks (through firm-specific incentives), to provide the labor force they need, from entry-level ...
... innovations, it is easier for TNCs to escape ... innovative, flexible small firms. The action shifted to within the region. Regional fortunes were measured in terms of endogenous factors – leadership, industrial adaptability, civic capacity ...
... innovative capacity. For example, studies in emerging economies, such as those in Eastern Europe, India, and Turkey, with a supply of labor skilled in engineering and computer sciences, show that TNCs distinguish between the skilled ...
... innovation centers provides TNCS in Rochester photonics with a combination of flexibility with respect to high-skilled and semiskilled labor and access to innovative capacity. Grimshaw and Rubery (2005) provide insights into this ...
Contents
Labor markets and the regional project | |
The evolution of the optics and imaging industry | |
media concentration and spatial competition | |
why regional innovation systems produce | |
The learning region disconnect | |
considering scale and combining investment | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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