The Regional World
Territorial Development in a Global Economy
Michael Storper
I. Regions as Relations and Conventions
1. The Resurgence of Regional Economies, Ten Years Later
2. Regional Economies as Relational Assets
II. Evolution and Territorial Development
3. The Evolution of Regional Specificities
4. Crossing Industrial Divides in a Region
III. Products, Technologies, and Territories
5. Innovation as Collective Action: Conventions, Products, Technologies, and Territories
6. Regional Worlds of Production: Conventions of Learning and Innovation in the Technology Districts of France, Italy, and the United States
IV. Globalization and Territorial Specificity
7. Territories, Flows, and Hierarchies in the Clobal Economy
8. The Limits to Globalization: Technology Districts and International Trade
9. The World of the City: Local Relations in a Global Economy
V. Regional Institutions, Territorial Orders
10. Institutions of the Learning Economy
11. Conclusion: Technology, Firm Strategies, and Territorial Order