Transport investment and disadvantaged regions : UK and European policies since the 1950s
Europe ; Industrial region ; Investment ; Regional policy ; Road ; Transport ; Transport network ; Transport policy ; United Kingdom
This paper outlines transport investment policies for older industrial regions with higher unemployment. It examines the motivation behind such policies and compares them with transport policies for other regions. The growth of political
and economic competition between problem industrial regions and other regions of disadvantage or growth potential is emphasised. Transport investments cannot promote sustained growth in disadvantaged regions if other favourable conditions are lacking.
Venture capital formation, investment, and regional industrialization
Accessibility ; Economic flow ; High-tech industry ; Industrialization ; Investment ; Location ; Model ; Spatial concentration ; Technology ; United States ; Venture capital
The paper introduces metropolitan-level data on venture capital in the USA and develops statistical models for both the location of venture capital (supply) and the spatial distribution of investment (demand). Hig degrees of capital mobility operate
through a well-defined spatial structure. Specialized sources of capital supply are developing around established financial centers and centers of high-technology industry. Proximity is required to reduce uncertainty and minimize investment risk.
Economic policy ; Investment ; Land market ; Land value ; Land;Real estate ; Mexico ; Real estate market ; Real estate speculation ; State control
The structure of the land market in Mexico for the period 1988-94 is studied. The immediate policies of Salinas, especially the control of inflation, brought about a return to the favourable conditions of real-estate investment that had existed
throughout most of the 1970s. But more recent policies and particularly those of economic liberalization may not bode quite so well for those wishing to place a large part of their investment portfolios in real estate.
Assembly line ; Car industry ; Foreign investment ; Industrial location ; Industry ; International relations ; Investment ; Japaneses ; Multinational firm ; South Africa
Despite the introduction of a ban on direct investment in South Africa, there is a considerable hidden Japanese presence in local manufacturing which resulted from licensing arrangements. Japanese enterprises are strongly represented in the moter
Inward investment and local linkages: how deeply embedded is Silicon Glen?
Direct investment ; Economic dependency ; Electronics ; Enterprise ; Factor of production ; Flexibility ; Investment ; Local development ; Scotland ; Sub-contracting ; Technology ; United Kingdom ; Value added
Investment and the regional question in the Canadian economic thought
Catastrophe theory ; Economic analysis ; Economic growth ; Growth pole ; Investment ; Model ; Production fonction ; Regional disparities ; Regional economy ; Spatial equilibrium ; Theory
Highway investment and regional economic development : decision methods and empirical foundations
Cost-benefit analysis ; Economic impact ; Economic potential ; Growth pole ; Infrastructure;Facilities ; Investment ; Regional development ; Theory ; Transport ; Typology ; United States
Competition ; Economic restructuring ; Industry ; Investment ; Poland ; Textile industry ; Urban economy ; Urban growth ; Urban history ; Łódź
eastern Europe in the early 1990s. Lodz faces a difficult, competitive situation in attracting the inward investment needed to diversify the local economy away from the ailing textile industry.
Capital ; England ; Finance ; Investment ; Land speculation ; London ; Offices ; Real estate speculation ; United Kingdom ; Urban development
financial asset. This mechanism spurred the speculation and overinvestment in the property sector. Investment activities were further catalysed by the urban and economic policy that endorsed market-driven, speculative short-term practices.
Domination ; Enterprise;Firm ; Finance ; Firm ; Head office ; Information flow ; Inter-industrial linkages ; Investment ; Management ; Network ; Offices ; United States ; Urban hierarchy
emphasizes the importance of analyses by interfirm and interplace connections. Analyses by industrial class show financial, insurance, and real estate firms are the dominant institutional stockholders. Maps and tables describe investment patterns of selected