Metropolitan Regions: Knowledge Infrastructures of the Global Economy [Paperback]

Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of how metropolitan regions and their subsystems interact and compete, why they differ in their capacity to nurture innovation and growth, and how metropolitan policies must be designed to secure the regions long-term vitality. To that end, it presents new contributions on theories of urban growth, institutions and policies of urban change, and case studies of urban growth prepared by international experts.

Metropolitan regions are increasingly recognized as the national growth and development engines in a globalizing world as well as the driving forces in national and global innovation processes. This book presents a detailed analysis of metropolitan regions.Part I: Theory of Urban Growth.- Part II: Policies and Institutions of Urban Change.- Part III: Case Studies of Urban Growth.

Johan Klaesson is an Associate professor of Economics at J?nk?ping International Business School (JIBS). He is also Director of the research center CEnSE (Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics) located at JIBS. He received his PhD in 2001. He has worked on regional development for the Swedish Board of Agriculture. He was appointed Associate professor at JIBS in 2007. His research focus on regional growth and development and in particular the regional effects of infrastructure, entrepreneurship and the knowledge economy.

B?rje Johansson is professor of Economics at the J?nk?ping International Business School (JIBS) and adjunct professor at the Economics division at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). At the same place he is also director of CESIS, Centre of Excellence for Science and Inls(