Regional Development Reconsidered

1 Regional Development Reconsidered: A Prologue
A: Innovation Systems, Learning Regions and Human Resources

2 A Systemic Approach to Innovation
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Innovation Process
2.3 Knowledge Creation and Spillovers
2.4 The Systems of Innovation Approach
2.5 Regional Systems of Innovation
2.6 Some Policy Implications
- References

3 Regional Industrial Policy and the New Economy
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Models of Industrial Organisation
3.3 Innovation and Knowledge Production
3.4 The Impact of the New Economy on the Organisation of Industry
3.5 Processes of Learning and Labour Training
3.6 The Territorial Network Approach
3.7 Policies for Territorial Networks
3.8 Policy Tools for the Interregional Production Cooperation
3.9 Conclusions

4 Human Resources and Regional Development
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Human Resource Development: Some International Comparisons Comparisons
4.3 The Learning Economy, the Learning Society and Learning Regions
4.4 The Role of Universities in Regional Development
4.5 Setting Learning Targets: A Regional Perspective
4.6 Human Resource Development and Regional Strategies
4.7 Conclusions
- References
B: Competitiveness and Cooperation

5 The Role of Public Institutions in Regional Competition
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Regional Competition by Public Institutions
5.3 Political Models of Regional Competition: Basic Approaches
5.4 Political Regional Competition within an Administrative Sector
5.5 Political Regional Competition within a Federation
5.6 Political Fiscal Regional Competition and Political Competition of Municipalities and Public Firms
5.7 Summary and Outlook
- References

6 Regional Cooperation of the Baltic States: Implications for Membership in the European Union
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Background of the Baltic States
6.3 Organisational Structures for Regional Cooperation
6.4 Contemporary Situation in Baltic States
6.5 Baltic States and Security
- References
C: Mobility in Transport

Manfred M. Fischer (born in 1947, Nuremberg, Germany) graduated in geography and mathematics from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen (Germany). He holds a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) on urban modelling from the same university (1975), and a habilitation degree in human geography from the University of Vienna (1982). Since 1988 he is professor in economic geography and GIScience at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
For more than thirty years he has consistently made significant contributions to regional science and GIScience in general, and spatial analysis, GeoComputation and spatial econometrics in particular. He has published widely, both books and articles in more than 30 distinct academic journals.