 Regional Differences, Differential Development and Generative Regional GrowthHerman Freudenberger and Gerhard Mensch Chapter 19 in Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution, 1981, pp 199-209 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract What are the preconditions for the industrialisation of a region? What factors provide the changes in technology, social and economic organisation, and policy-making that transform a region from a more traditional state of existence to modern industrialisation? We wish to address ourselves to the conceptualisation of the processes by which these factors become part of the transformation phenomenon. In this context, generic developments of new technologies, institutions, etc., are being viewed as innovations. Their emergence represents an evolutionary process, e.g. like mutations in the genes, which through their selection succeed in the relevant space and time. This intellectual approach lends itself easily to an analogy between the natural economy (sociobiology) and the political economy (urban and industrial economics), as suggested ‘by terminological pairs like species/industry, mutation/innovation, mutualism/exchange, and evolution/progress’.1 Keywords: Differential Development; Regional Policy; Sixteenth Century; Regional Economic Development; Differential Approach (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-04707-9_19 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04707-9_19 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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