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Issue 4

Featured graphic

The visual genealogy of spinoff companies in the technology sector in Seattle, 2008 763 – 764
Heike Mayer, Stuart Armstrong

Commentaries

When all the world's a city 765 – 772
Michael Batty

Reconciling top-down and bottom-up development policies 773 – 780
Riccardo Crescenzi, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Theme issue: Globalization, innovation, and regional development in China
Guest editors: Y H Dennis Wei, Yu Zhou

Guest editorial

Globalization, innovation, and regional development in China 781 – 785
Yu Zhou, Y H Dennis Wei

Domestic firm innovation and networking with foreign firms in China’s ICT industry 786 – 809
Yifei Sun, Debin Du

Structural holes and new dimensions of distance: the spatial configuration of the scientific knowledge network of China’s optical technology sector 810 – 829
Ingo Liefner, Stefan Hennemann

Innovation, globalization, and catch-up of latecomers: cases of Chinese telecom firms 830 – 849
Peilei Fan

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The cost of urban sprawl and its potential redistributive effects: an empirical cost assessment for water services in Lausanne (Switzerland) 850 – 865
Géraldine Pflieger, Florian Ecoffey

Entrepreneurial origin and the configuration of innovation in rural areas: the case of Cumbria, North West England 866 – 884
Christos Kalantaridis, Zografia Bika

Shifts in value chain governance and upgrading in the European periphery of automotive production: evidence from Bursa, Turkey 885 – 903
Güldem Özatagan

The geography of global corporate networks: the poor, the rich, and the happy few countries 904 – 927
Ronald S Wall, Martijn J Burger, G A (Bert) van der Knaap

Plan-led planning systems in development-led practices: an empirical analysis into the (lack of) institutionalisation of planning law 928 – 941
Edwin Buitelaar, Maaike Galle, Niels Sorel

Discourses of energy infrastructure development: a Q-method study of electricity transmission line siting in the UK 942 – 960
Matthew Cotton, Patrick Devine-Wright

Critical success factors in urban brownfield regeneration: an analysis of ‘hardcore’ sites in Manchester and Osaka during the economic recession (2009 – 10) 961 – 980
Timothy Dixon, Noriko Otsuka, Hirokazu Abe

Reviews 981 – 983
Aldrich on Edgington: Reconstructing Kobe: the geography of crisis and opportunity
Brewer on Waldfogel: Britain’s war on poverty