CRP 8276 Regional Development Lecture 1: Introduction

1. CRP 8276: Regional Development Lecture #1: Introduction

3. 3 Quantitative Assignments

6. increased inter-territorial competition;

7. growth of knowledge-intensive forms of economic activity;

8. rapid, uncertain and geographically uneven and unequal economic, political, cultural and environmental change;

9. multilayed and devolving systems of government and governance;

10. new interventions, instruments and policies.

12. historical context;

13. central importance of the geographical concepts of space, territory, place and scale.

14. Uneven nature of development.

16. Keynesian;

18. Growth poles [Schumpeter]

19. Agglomeration [Chinitz]

20. product and profit cycles;

22. Minimum Requirements approach

23. Shift-share analyses

24. Economic Base Projection

25. Impact Analyses

27. long wave theory;

28. Marxism and the spatial division of labour;

29. transition theories;

30. institutionalism and socio-economics;

31. innovation, knowledge and learning;

32. endogenous growth theory;

33. sustainable development;

36. Role of Transnational Corporations (TNCs)

38. Selecting a Local Economic development Strategy

40. Physical Infrastructure Development

41. Specutlative Buildings

42. Zoning Regulations

43. Business Improvement Districts

44. Regulatory Improvement

45. Tourism Planning

46. Housing and Neighborhood improvement

47. Community Services

49. One-stop Business Assistance Centers

50. Start-up Venture Financing Companies

51. Small Business Development Centers

52. Group Marketing Systems

53. Microenterprise and Women's Enterprises

54. Promotion and Tourism Programs

55. Research and Development

56. Enterprise Zones

58. Community Cooperatives

59. Local Enterprise Agencies

60. Employee/Worker Ownership

61. Targeting and Marketing Neighborhood Assets

63. Trying to effect adjustment: Jalisco, Mexico & Ontario, Canada;

64. Sustaining an existing development trajectory: Silicon Valley;

65. Balanced regional development:Busan, S. Korea;

66. Economic transformation: Seville, Spain;

67. Dealing with uneven local and regional consequences of transformation: Ireland;

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72. Internationalized or globalized economic system, with greater emphasis on knowledge industries and competition;

73. Uneven development

83. Capturing mobile investment

84. Investment subsidies

85. Subsidised premises

87. Fostering entrepreneurship

88. Helping new firms

89. Business advice

90. Uncertainty reduction

91. Coordination

92. Infrastructure investment

94. External (non-local) networking

95. Benchmarking assessments

96. Airline and and air-freight links

97. Scanning globally for new knowledge

99. Managed by the national central administration

100. Sectoral approach to development

101. Development of large industrial projects, that will foster other economic activity

102. Financial support, incentives and subsidies as the main factor of attraction of economic activity

104. Decentralized, vertical cooperation between different tiers of government and horizontal cooperation between public and private bodies

105. Territorial approach to development (locality, milieu)

106. Use of the development potential of each area, in order to stimulate a progressive adjustment of the local economic system to the changing economic environment

107. Provision of key conditions for the development of economic activity.

109. Help make local institutions more transparent

110. Firms better positioned to withstand global economic changes

111. Better quality jobs