Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Second Tier Regions - Hardcover

Mayer, Heike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847203590 ISBN 13: 9781847203595

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Second tier high-tech regions are taking a different path than their well-known counterparts such as Silicon Valley or Route 128 around Boston. They may lack many prerequisites of growth such as a world-class research university or high levels of venture capital funding. Often, however, they can successfully leverage anchor firms and entrepreneurial spinoffs. This book explores the evolution of these regions in the United States.

The author critically examines how they evolved as knowledge-based economies, how they leveraged entrepreneurship and innovation, and ultimately how they employed public policy to support economic growth.

Filling a gap in the literature, the book speaks to researchers and policy makers across the fields of entrepreneurship, economic geography and economic development planning. Entrepreneurship researchers will find this book interesting because it focuses on the role of new venture creation in regional economic development.

About this title

About the Author

Heike Mayer, Professor of Economic Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland

Review

`. . . this is a useful path-breaking book that should open a new dialogue about economic development and offer hope to a great number of places.' -- Maryann P. Feldman and Jongmin Choi, Journal of Regional Science

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847203590
• ISBN 13: 9781847203595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272