Ideopolis Driver 2: Building on what's there

What cities and policymakers can learn from endogenous growth and the new economic geography

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Published:  March 2008

Authors:  Neil Lee

Series:  An Ideopolis Working Paper

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Abstract

A group of well-publicised ‘superstars’ such as Silicon Valley dominate discussions of economic growth and cities. But while these are important examples, it is not clear how much it is possible to generalise policies from them to support economic growth in other cities.