Innovation, Finance and Space

In the empirical world of businesses, especially that of small and medium sized enterprises, regional production systems are characterised by asymmetries in innovative capacities, and diverging capabilities in financing and performance. This book focuses on the interlinkages between finance and production in terms of their spatialities. The intangible character of finance has a profound impact on regional development, on the one hand. But it has its own spatiality, on the other. The authors of this volume make an effort to bridge the gap between the world of finance and the world of production from the viewpoint of different disciplines in social sciences. Drawing on European experiences, the book intends to provide conceptual and empirical ground for further in-depth analyses of the relation between finance and innovation...     «

In the empirical world of businesses, especially that of small and medium sized enterprises, regional production systems are characterised by asymmetries in innovative capacities, and diverging capabilities in financing and performance. This book focuses on the interlinkages between finance and production in terms of their spatialities. The intangible character of finance has a profound impact on regional development, on the one hand. But it has its own spatiality, on the other. The authors of t...     »