Entrepreneurship, Investment and Spatial Dynamics: Lessons and Implications for an Enlarged EU (New Horizons in Regional Science series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845424514 ISBN 13: 9781845424510

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Enlargement of the EU increases economic diversity and inequality between countries and regions, making cohesion difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers and entrepreneurship; a crucial factor in reducing the economic disparity caused by the geographic expansion of the EU.

The book offers new empirical evidence regarding the spatial dimension of investment, entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers, and features both individual and cross-country analyses. FDI in accession countries is examined, as is the effect of EU integration on own-country investment. Innovative methodologies and unique new models are then used to provide lessons and policy implications for economic growth prospects in the recently enlarged EU.

Researchers and policy makers working in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, economic growth, economic integration and regional development will find this book to be of great interest. It will also be warmly welcomed by students and academics with an interest in European studies, international economics and regional and urban economics.

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About the Author

Edited by Peter Nijkamp, Professor Emeritus, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the Centre for European Studies, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Romania and the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China, Ronald L. Moomaw, Spears School of Business, College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, US and Iulia Traistaru-Siedschlag, Head, Centre for International Macroeconomic Analysis, The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland and Senior Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845424514
• ISBN 13: 9781845424510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Nijkamp Peter, Moomaw Ronald L., Traistaru-Siedschlag Iulia