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Metropolitan Regions: Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy

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  • Klaesson, Johan

    (Jönköping International Business School)

  • Johansson, Börje

    (Jönköping International Business School and Royal Institute of Technology)

  • Karlsson, Charlie

    (Jönköping International Business School, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona and University West, Trollhättan)

Abstract

The importance of metropolitan regions as national growth and development engines, and in particular as driving forces in national as well as global innovation processes is well recognized. This paper highlights the role of metropolitan regions in different contexts in order to lay a foundation for future research on metropolitan regions and their development. Specifically, the paper dwells on the role of metropolitan regions as nodes in national and international networks and as nodes of knowledge generation and innovation. Further, market potential as a concept describing the economic concentration to and the opportunities of making contacts within and between metropolitan regions is introduced. Additionally, the internal dynamic of metropolitan regions and the role of fast and slow processes is described. Lastly this paper illustrates how the input and output market potentials represent factors that adjust slowly and that play the same role for metropolitan development as metropolitan infrastructure.

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  • Klaesson, Johan & Johansson, Börje & Karlsson, Charlie, 2011. "Metropolitan Regions: Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 253, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.
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    1. Loris Servillo & Rob Atkinson & Abdelillah Hamdouch & Abdelillah Hamdouch & Christophe Demaziere & Ksenija Banovac, 2017. "The Socio-Economic Profiles of Small and Medium-Sized Towns: Insights from European Case Studies," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 108(4), pages 456-471, September.
    2. Peter Mayerhofer & Oliver Fritz, 2013. "Wiens Stadtwirtschaft. Internationale Spezialisierungschancen, zentrale Wirtschaftsbereiche," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 57933, April.
    3. Leonid Limonov, 2013. "St. Petersburg Metropolitan Region: Problems of Planning Coordination and Spatial Development," ERSA conference papers ersa13p70, European Regional Science Association.
    4. Leonid Limonov, 2014. "Suburban Development of St Petersburg: comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions," ERSA conference papers ersa14p216, European Regional Science Association.

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    Keywords

    Metropolitan regions; market potential; networks;
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    JEL classification:

    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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