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1. The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region

   Edited by Philip Cooke, Glen Searle, Kevin O'Connor

   Series: Regions and Cities

   This book is designed to broaden and deepen the understanding of the current and future structure and geography of the Information Technology industry in the Asia-Pacific region. The industry has evolved through a number stages, beginning with supply chain links to large, mainly US-based, firms...

   To Be Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Re-framing Regional Development

   Evolution, Innovation and Transition

   Edited by Philip Cooke

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to ‘reframe’ the regional development problem in turbulent times. These are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography; emergence theory;...

   To Be Published September 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems

   Relatedness and Transversality in the Evolving Region

   By Philip Cooke

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Clusters and Regional Development

   Critical Reflections and Explorations

   Edited by Bjorn Asheim, Philip Cooke, Ron Martin

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Using international examples, leading scholars present the first critical analysis of cluster theory, assessing the cluster notion and drawing out, not only its undoubted strengths and attractions, but also its weaknesses and limitations. Over the past decade the ‘cluster model’ has been seized on...

   Published February 1st 2010 by Routledge
5. Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy

   Edited by Philip Cooke, Andrea Piccaluga

   Series: Regions and Cities

   International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development. Illustrated by data and 'stylized' accounts, the international contributors chart the evolution of knowledge economies, questioning the way in which they work and criticize...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
6. Creative Regions

   Technology, Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship

   Edited by Philip Cooke, Dafna Schwartz

   Series: Regions and Cities

   This unique book focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowledge economy. Approaching creativity from technological, organizational and regional viewpoints, it attempts to break down the influence of...

   Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge
7. Growth Cultures

   The Global Bioeconomy and its Bioregions

   By Philip Cooke

   Series: Genetics and Society

   This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global bioregions. Growth Cultures investigates the rapidly growing phenomena of biotechnology and sets this study within a knowledge economy context. Philip Cooke proposes a new knowledge-focused theoretical...

   Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge
8. Knowledge Economics

   By Philip Cooke

   Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
9. Regional Innovation Systems

   The Role of Governances in a Globalized World, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Hans-Joachim Braczyk, Philip Cooke, Martin Heidenreich

   Since the first edition of this book in 1995, there has been a worldwide innovation-led economic boom and a subsequent slump, meaning enormous change has also occurred at the level of regional economies. The new edition registers this change and provides an interesting test of the robustness of the...

   Published March 10th 2004 by Routledge
10. Knowledge Economies

    Clusters, Learning and Cooperative Advantage

    By Philip Cooke

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples, who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources. Initially, natural resource endowments explained the formation...

    Published October 10th 2001 by Routledge