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地理、开放创新和企业家ship
Edited by Urban Gråsjö, Charlie Karlsson, Iréne Bernhard
Developed countries must be incredibly innovative to secure incomes and welfare so that they may successfully compete against international rivals. This book focuses on two specific but interrelated aspects of innovation by incumbent fir...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Evaluation of Complex Infrastructure Projects
Lasse Gerrits, Stefan Verweij
Infrastructure projects are notoriously hard to manage so it is important that society learns from the successes and mistakes made over time. However, most evaluation methods run into a conundrum: either they cover a large number of proj...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Creative Industries and Entrepreneurship
Edited by Luciana Lazzeretti, Marilena Vecco
This book investigates the evolving paradigm of creative industries and creative entrepreneurship, and their related economy over time. It explores different stages of the paradigm diffusion in ‘first generation countries’ such as the US...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation
Edited by Richard Shearmur, Christophe Carrincazeaux, David Doloreux
The geography of innovation is changing. First, it is increasingly understood that innovative firms and organizations exhibit a wide variety of strategies, each being differently attuned to diverse geographic contexts. Second, and concom...eBook:Find out more$60.76
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Transportation, Knowledge and Space in Urban and Regional Economics
Edited by Kakuya Matsushima, William P. Anderson
This collection of 16 original research chapters by international scholars addresses the complementary roles of transportation and knowledge and their spatial manifestations in modern urban and regional economies. The authors provide res...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Research Agenda for Cities
Edited by John R. Short
This book provides a critical assessment of key areas of urban scholarship. In twelve stimulating chapters, expert contributors examine a range of important pressing topics from sustainability and gentrification to feminist interventions...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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Globalization, International Spillovers and Sectoral Changes
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Andreas P. Cornett, Tina Wallin
As a consequence of globalization, news, ideas and knowledge are moving quickly across national borders and generating international spillovers. So too, however, are economic and financial crises. Combining a variety of methods, concepts...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Immigration Policy and the Shaping of U.S. Culture
Roger White
The author examines the relationships between immigration policy, observed immigration patterns, and cultural differences between the United States and immigrants’ source countries. The entirety of U.S. immigration history (1607-present)...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Migration and Globalisation
Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou
This Handbook explores the multifaceted linkages between two of the most important socioeconomic phenomena of our time: globalisation and migration. Both are on the rise, increasing in size and scope worldwide, and this Handbook offers t...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Global Regionalisms and Higher Education
Edited by Susan L. Robertson, Kris Olds, Roger Dale, Que Anh Dang
这原始的书提供了一个独特的分析,the different regional and inter-regional projects, their processes and the politics of Europeanisation, globalisation and education. Collectively, the contirbutors engage with internation...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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How Great Cities Happen
John Stanley, Janet Stanley, Roslynne Hansen
Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of ...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing
Ian Bache, Louise Reardon
Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased significantly in recent years, leading to new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed specifically at enhancing wellbeing. This book pr...eBook:Find out more$37.56