Publisher's Synopsis
Filling a gap in the urban and regional literature, this book provides a detailed account of the recent intiatives of US state governments with science and technology programs designed to foster economic growth. Two key questions are posed: do state governments have policy instruments that are sufficiently powerful to affect the levels and growth rates of their regional economies? And are national and global economic forces so powerful that they render state action ineffective?;The book should be of interest to students, scholars, state policy-makers and administrators. It will be relevant to a range of graduate courses in political science, geography, city and regional planning, policy studies, and science and technology policy.
