Economic Geography

Acknowledgements
We first acknowledge the help and patience of our colleagues, Zoe Kruze and
Andrew Mold at Routledge in seeing this project through. We also thank the
anonymous referees who helped us define more closely the nature of the book.
We are very grateful to Peter Dicken for kindly writing the preface. It was
Location in Space, written with Peter Lloyd that provided the inspiration for the
five sessions at the Centennial AAG. Very special thanks are owed to Professor
Gordon Clark for his kind help and support in organizing the sessions and for
his subsequent advice on the book. We are also very grateful to Doug Watts 
who was involved at the early stages of planning the sessions. We also thank the
contributors for responding to our requests with such good humour. Finally 
we would like to thank Annitra Jongsthapongpanth for assistance with the 
manuscript.

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Contributors
David P. Angel
is a Professor in the School of Geography at Clark University
where he also holds the Leo L. and Joan Kraft Laskoff Professorship in
Economics, Technology and the Environment. An economic geographer by train-
ing, Professor Angel’s research focuses on issues of economic change and the envi-
ronment. Recent books include Asia’s Clean Revolution: Industry Growth and the
Environment (Greenleaf Publishing, 2000) and Industrial Transformation in 
the Developing World (Oxford University Press, 2005), both co-authored with 
economist Michael Rock. Professor Angel’s current position is Provost and Vice
President for Academic Affairs at Clark University.
Bjørn T. Asheim
is Professor of Economic Geography at Lund University,
Sweden, and Professor II at the Centre of Technology, Innovation, and Culture,
University of Oslo, Norway. He is co-founder and deputy director of the Centre
of Excellence in Innovation System Research (CIRCLE) at Lund University. He
has recently co-edited a book on Regional Innovation Policy for Small-Medium
Enterprises (Edward Elgar, 2003), has co-edited Clusters and Regional
Development (Routledge, 2006) with Phil Cooke and Ron Martin. He is the
author of numerous articles and book chapters on industrial districts, regional
innovation systems and learning regions. He is Editor of Economic Geography and
member of the editorial board of European Planning Studies, and the Journal of
Economic Geography. His current research is on the geography of the creative class
and regional innovation systems.