Global Competitiveness and Innovation An Agent-Centred Perspective

The key arguments and debates about globalization have raised searching questions about the significance of national and regional borders for the competitive strategies of individuals, firms and industries. Global Competitiveness and Innovation seeks to address these issues by exploring four key topics: The status of economic agents in the emerging global economy; the limits of path dependence and the scope of agent action; the relationship between agents' decision-making and their environments; and agents' learning capacities in a world of information and knowledge creation.

Introduction Agents and Institutions Path Dependence and Development Competitive Strategy and Clusters of Innovation Cognition, Learning and the New Economy Global Competitiveness

GORDON CLARK is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography and Fellow of the SaId Business School at the University of Oxford. He has taught public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University and Monash University. His research interests combine economic geography with global finance and include regional economic development, corporate governance, finance markets, pensions and environmental regulation.

PAUL TRACEY is Lecturer in Social Enterprise at the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge. He has held academic posts at the Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Newcastle, and the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. His research interests include regional economic development, entrepreneurship and the social economy.