Prof. Riccardo Crescenzi, London School of Economics, UK.
Why do some regions and territories perform systematically better than others in terms of economic development and wealth? What are the key drivers of local and regional economic and innovative performance? These lectures will challenge the 'traditional' answers to these questions based on 'linear' models of innovation and regional growth. Conversely, the course will present an eclectic approach to the territorial genesis of innovation and regional growth by combining different theoretical strands into an 'integrated framework'. This integrated approach will make it possible to single out the territorial drivers of innovation and growth and their spatial interactions. Fundamental insights will come from the assessment of the role of infrastructural investments, from the analysis of the geography of innovation in different continents and the investigation of the territorial drivers of Foreign Investments.
Programm und Ablauf des Seminars
05. - 09.05.2014 jeweils von 16:00-19:00 Uhr
- Session (05. Mai): Why do some regions have stronger economic and innovation performance than others? …The 'traditional' answer.
- Crescenzi R. & Rodríguez-Pose A. (2011): “Innovation and regional growth in the European Union”, Springer: Berlin and New York, Chapter 1
- European Commission (2011): Fifth Report on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion, Chapter 1 from page 11.
- Fagerberg J. (1994): Technology and International Differences in Growth Rates, Journal of Economic Literature, 32(3), 1147-1175.
- Freeman R. (2000): What does modern growth analysis say about government policy toward growth? Paper presented at the Economic growth and Government policy seminar held at 11 Downing Street on 12th October 2000
- Introduction to Regional Inequalities
- Session (06. Mai): The integrated framework - Beyond the linear model of innovation: social filters, knowledge flows and global networks
- Crescenzi R. & Rodríguez-Pose A. (2011): “Innovation and regional growth in the European Union”, Springer: Berlin and New York, Chapter 2, 4 & 5
- Crescenzi R.: “Changes in Economic Geography Theory and the Dynamics of Technical Change”, in Fisher M.M. and Nijkamp P. (Editors) Handbook of Regional Science, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer, 2014, 649-666.
- Session (07. Mai): Infrastructure – Infrastructure investments and the genesis of Regional Growth
- Cappelen A., Castellaci F. , Fagerberg J. And Verspagen B. (2003): The impact of EU regional support on growth and convergence in the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies 41, 621–644.
- Crescenzi R. & Rodríguez-Pose A. (2011): “Innovation and regional growth in the European Union”, Springer: Berlin and New York, Chapter 7
- Gramlich, E. (1994): Infrastructure Investment: a review essay, Journal of Economic Literature, 32, 1176-96.
- Session (08. Mai): Geography of Innovation - What can we learn from the comparative analysis of the territorial innovation dynamics in developed and emerging countries?
- Crescenzi R., Rodríguez-Pose A. & Storper M. (2012): “The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India”, Journal of Economic Geography, 12, 1055–1085.
- Crescenzi R. & Rodríguez-Pose A. (2011): “Innovation and regional growth in the European Union”, Springer: Berlin and New York, Chapter 6.
- Crescenzi R. & Rodríguez-Pose A.: “An ‘integrated’ framework for the comparative analysis of the territorial innovation dynamics of developed and emerging countries”, Journal of Economic Surveys, 26(3), 517–533, 2012.
- Crescenzi R. and Rodriguéz-Pose A.: "R&D, Socio-Economic Conditions, and Regional Innovation in the U.S.", Growth and Change, 44(2), 290–323, 2013.
- Session (09. Mai): Global networks – Territorial Innovation Drivers and the Location Strategies of Multinational Firms from Developed and Emerging Countries
- Crescenzi R., Pietrobelli C. and Rabellotti R.: “Innovation Drivers, Value Chains and the Geography of Multinational Corporations in Europe”, Journal of Economic Geography, in press, 2013.
- Crescenzi R., Pietrobelli C. and Rabellotti R.: “The location strategies of Multinational Corporations from Developed and Emerging Countries”, mimeo, 2014.
