Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific

Professor Daniels is Dean of Physical Sciences and Engineering and Professor in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. Professor Harrington is in the Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Chapter 1 Services and Development in the Asia-Pacific: Introduction and Overview, Peter W. Daniels, James W. Harrington; Part I Dynamics of Economic Spaces: The Services Dimension; Chapter 2 Change in the Agglomeration of Service Firms in a Metropolitan Area: A Case Study of Graphic Design Firms in Melbourne 1981–2001, Peter Elliott, Kevin O’Connor; Chapter 3 Development of the ‘Third Form’ of the Car-making Producer Services Industry in Shanghai, China and its Locational Factors, Yufang Shen; Chapter 4 Metropolitan Cities as the Innovation Centers of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: The Case of Seoul in Korea, Ji-Sun1* Choi; Chapter 5 Location Patterns of Information Technology Services in Japan, Noboru Hayashi; Part II External Regulation of Services within Value Chains; Chapter 6 State, Market and the Growth of Service Industries in Metropolitan Guangzhou, Fiona F. Yang, George C.S. Lin; Chapter 7 SIA and Singapore: Competition, Changes in Organization and Technologies and the Impacts on Economic Development, Shuang Yann Wong; Chapter 8 1*The authors acknowledge the financial support from Ministry of Science and Technology of China for the research conducted (research grant No. 2003DGQ2D059)., Shuguang Liu, Guogang Ren; Chapter 9 Transformation of an Industry Stimulated by Local Economic Growth Policy: The Case of the SHOCHU (Liquor) Industry in Japan, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Hideo Mori, Koshi Hachikubo; Part III Internal Regulation and Policies for Service; Chapter 10 Reluctant State, Decentralized Markets, and Under Developed Communities: The Construction of the Futures Trading Industry in Taiwan, Pin-Hsien Chen, Jinn-yuh Hsu; Chapter 11 Networked Governance for Global Economic Part Icipation: The Case of New Zealand’s Largest Service City, Steffen Wetzstein; Chapter 12 Lowering the Professional Frontier: A Service Market in Development in Ahmedabad, India, Harald Bekkers;