Economic Geography

Reasons for policy termination 

Seebed Theory

Incubator theory

Cumulative Causation

Triple Helix

Assisted Linear Model

Barriers to intervention:

1) finding appropriate partners

2) making contractswith companies

3) lack of fundingfor collaborative research

4) absence of established proceduresfor industry collaboration

5) few industry individuals in professional network

6) lack of understandingon expectations and working practices

7) short-term orientationof industry research 

Italian Migration 

-inter-region migration substantial 1956-63

-unskilled from south to north 

-70s migration rates fell but unemployment differences grew (divergence)

            -costs of moving due to low incomes in south 

            -housing price differences

            -challenge of matching to job to worker (frictional unemployment) 

4 motives for enterprise:

-finance, family, challenge/vision, autonomy (freedom)

Higher ed., higher income more likely to pursue enterprise 

Proximity: geographical, cognitive, social, institutional organisational (business networks)

HULT

Index of Enterprise

Inter-regional trade theory

Human capital approach

Unemployment doesn't lead to a significant increase in migration 

Lock-in

Spatial DoL