Table of Contents

Describing, studying, and creating new economic spaces, James W. Harrington and Richard Le Heron; Network, embeddedness, and cluster processes of new economic spaces in Korea, Sam Ock Park; High tech 'Large Firms' in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia: congregation without clustering?, Roger Hayter, Kevin Rees and Jerry Patchell; Geographic context and radical innovation: the formation of knowledge in the American and Japanese electronic musical instrument industries, Tim Reiffenstein; Governing by 'Certifying': international standards organization and capability maturity models as regulatory practices in offshore software outsourcing, St. Petersburg, Russia, Melanie Feakins; Geopolitical economy of global syndicated credit markets, Bongman Seo; State governance, regulatory processes and entrepreneurship: Singapore's concentrating banking sector, Shuang-Yann Wong; Foreign direct investment and economic change in the Yangtze Valley, China: opening up a new economic space, Yufang Shen; Cooperating to realign supply chains: representations, networks and tacit knowledge in New Zealand's dairy and sheep meat industries, Guy Penny; Placing economic development narratives into emerging economic spaces: Project Jeep, 1996-1997, Jay D. Gatrell and Neil Reid; Israel as a post-industrial space of work and leisure: a value stretch of lifestyle attributes, Baruch A. Kipnis; Electronic waste, global value chains and environmental policy response in China, Xin Tong; Environmental symbiosis and renewal of old industrial districts in Japan: cases of Kawasaki and Kitakyushu, Atsuhiko Takeuchi and Hiroyasu Motoki; Environmental regulation and economic spaces: the Mexican leather and footwear industrial districts, Raul Pacheco and Hadi Dowlatabadi; Concepts of regional collaboration as points of entry into regional institutional analyses, Martina Fromhold-Eisebith; Negotiating culture and economy in high-technology industries: governance through intellectual property in new economic spaces, Marcus A. Doel, Kevin G. Rees and Tamsin E. C. Davies; Regions as institutions, inter-regional firms and new economic spaces, Roger Hayter; Potential and limitation of new industrial policy in Korea: fostering innovative clusters, Ji-Sun Choi; Academic economic geography and sites of economic geography practice: examples and reflections from New Zealand, Richard Le Heron; Index.

About the Author

Richard Le Heron is based at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand. James W. Harrington is based at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.