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Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
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The factors that determine growth at the industry level are different for innovative versus mature industries. Growth industries rely on high-quality workers, access to capital, technical change, and numerous forms of collected economies. Mature industries concentrate on low-input costs and minimizing costs for wages, transportation, taxes, material, etc. This approach is adopted here to consider... Read more
PART I Empirical Analysis of Metropolitan Growth; 1: Sectoral Clustering and Metropolitan Development; 2: Agglomeration Economies and Productivity Growth; PART II Empirical Analysis of Metropolitan Growth; 3: High-growth Industries and Uneven Metropolitan Growth; 4: Economic Structure and Growth of Metropolitan Areas; 5: Assessing the Development Status of Metropolitan Areas; PART III Empirical Analysis of Key Sectors; 6: Producer Services and Metropolitan Growth and Development; 7: The Suburban Downtown and Urban Economic Development Today; IV: Policy and Metropolitan Economic Development; 8: Enterprise Zones: Lessons from the State Government Experience; 9: Venture Capital’s Role in Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis; 10: Regions as Industrial Incubators of Technology-based Ventures; V: Economic Change and Urban Social Problems; 11: Service Industries and the Working Poor in Major Metropolitan Areas in the United States; 12: Economic Determinants of Underclass Behavior
Biography
John F. McDonald
