Description
This book hopes to stimulate discussion about how entrepreneurship and innovation contribute to growing inequalities in territories. This will help bridge the gap between research and practice on the role of territory dynamics and regional development.
The book begins by examining the growing inequality in regions, which has resulted in lagging economic development. The need to shift current economic policy towards spatial inequality through harnessing the innovative capabilities of regions is examined. The book puts forth a case for reversing the inequality that is evident in lagging regions as a way to reinvigorate territories.
The book should appeal to researchers, policy makers, business leaders and the general public interested in territorial dynamics and development.
Table of Contents
List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors.
1. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Inequality: Exploring Territorial Dynamics (Vanessa Ratten, Jose Alvarez Garcia and Maria de la Cruz del Rio Rama) 2. Sport Facilities, Tourism Innovation, and Territorial Development: Provisional Results of a New Downhill Installation in the Italian Alps (Stefano Duglio) 3. Scientific Tourism and Territorial Singularities: Some Theoretical and Methodological Contributions (Sergio Nunes and Vanda Sousa) 4. Information about Entrepreneurship: Online Evidence in Local Administration (Maria Teresa Nevado Gil, Luisa Cagica Carvalho and Ana Luisa Godoy Caballero) 5. Tourists Purchase Intentions for All-inclusive Holiday Packages: A New Research Agenda (Konstantinos Koronios, Dimitripoulos Panagiotis, Athanasios Kriemadis and Andreas Papadopoulos) 6. Augmented Reality as a Facilitator of Visitor Experience: The Museum Context (Azizul Hassan) 7. Investigating a New Framework for Medical Tourism Adoption: A Case Study on Iran (Seyedeh Om Salameh Pourhashemi) 8. Toward a Framework to Unlock Innovation from Big Data (Valentina Ndou, Edlira Kalemi, Ogerta Elezaj and Enrico Ciavolino) 9. Innovations in Medical Tourism against the Paradigm of Sustainable Development Background (Aleksandra Machnik and Adrian Lubowiecki-Vikuk) 10. Process Innovation in High-End Tourism Organizations: A Case Study in a ‘Diamond-level’ Hotel in the Riviera Maya (Manuel Suarez-Barraza, Francisco Rodriguez-Gonzalez and Sergio Rafael Cue-Funes) 11. The Use of Data-Driven Technologies in Tourism Marketing (Mark Camilleri) 12. The Effects of Pension System Reforms on Tourism Spending of Spanish Retirees (Beatriz Rosado-Cebrián, Immaculada Domínguez-Fabián and Jose Álvarez-García)
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