Societies in motion : innovation, migration and regional transformation : essays in honor of Dani Shefer
- Title
- Societies in motion : innovation, migration and regional transformation : essays in honor of Dani Shefer / edited by Amnon Frenkel, Peter Nijkamp, Philip McCann.
- Published by
- Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, ©2012.
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- Description
- xx, 377 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This volume deals with the complex issues raised by rapid transitions in space that are in part the result of technological developments of previous decades. It focuses on the impacts on regional development, technological innovation, and the flows and mobility of ideas, knowledge, people and firms.
- Series statement
- New horizons in regional science
- Uniform title
- New horizons in regional science
- Subject
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. one Regional development -- 1. The spatial consequences of autarky in land-use regulation: strategic interaction or simply parallelism? / John M. Quigley -- 2. Intra-urban mobility and changing density functions in Tel Aviv, 1995 -- 2006 / Shlomie Hazam -- 3. The role of monetary and financial factors in regional development: an overview / Henri L.F. de Groot -- pt. two Industrial innovation -- 4. Spatial mobility of firms / Joris Knoben -- 5. The location of knowledge economy and high-tech in Israel / Raphael Bar-El -- 6. University -- industry technology transfer: fostering and hindering factors and programmes / Daniel Shefer -- pt. three Human capital, migration and labour force -- 7. The effect of asset and credit constraint on interregional labour migration / Michael Sonis --
- 8. Circular statistics, migration models and the directionality of job search processes / Philip McCann -- 9. Commuting and migration: can they be complementary? / Miki Malul -- 10. Globalisation, the CEECs and European policy / Philip McCann -- 11. Spatial filtering methods for tracing space -- time developments in an open regional system: experiments with German unemployment data / Peter Nijkamp -- pt. four Spatial mobility -- 12. The role of computing in urban travel forecasting: how transportation planning practice shaped software, and software impacted transportation planning practice / Hillel Bar-Gera -- 13. Sustainable transportation development and travel behavior / Daniel Shefer -- 14. Reinventing the wheel: planning the rail network to meet the mobility needs of the 21st century / David Banister -- 15. Are urban transportation benefits absorbed fully by land values? / Daniel Shefer.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.