Michael Kitson
Biographic Data
| ID | 995990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Kitson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitson |
| SIGNATURE | KITSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0177-664X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Global forces and local impacts: Megatrends in Regional Development
Mission-oriented innovation policy: Effects on Regions and Implications for Place-Based Policy
William Metcalf, Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares
William Metcalf, Utopian Dreams and Dystopian NightmaresBrisbane: Boolarong Press, 2022, 196 pp., A$34.99, ISBN: 9 7819 2264 3445
Understanding the post-Covid state and its geographies
Innovation policy and place: A critical assessment
Innovation policy has become an integral part of modern industrial policy. This article considers the role of innovation and place through the lens of UK innovation policy. It argues that much of innovation policy is focused on the generation of innovations and not the diffusion and adoption of innovations throughout the economy. This focus will do little to slow or reverse regional diverges in economic performance. Innovation policy at the local…
The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector
The public sector appears under siege across the globe. While there are variations across and within nations in how this plays out, the arms of the state that provide the social safety net and protect citizens' well-being are especially at risk. The erosion of the state as an institution can be seen in cuts to social programmes and public sector jobs, underfunded infrastructure, the sale of public assets and other forms of privatization along wit…
Perceptions of entrepreneurial ecosystems in remote islands and core regions
The existence of an effective entrepreneurial ecosystem is important for economic development and growth. This study considers how entrepreneurial ecosystems are perceived and operate in different locations focusing on remote islands compared to core/central regions
Academic engagement and commercialisation: A review of the literature on university–industry relations
A considerable body of work highlights the relevance of collaborative research, contract research, consulting and informal relationships for university–industry knowledge transfer. We present a systematic review of research on academic scientists’ involvement in these activities to which we refer as ‘academic engagement’. Apart from extracting findings that are generalisable across studies, we ask how academic engagement differs from commercialis…
Shifting contours of migration
In the call for articles for this issue of CJRES, we asked for articles that would address the phenomena of the increase of intra- and international migration of people, whether as economic migrants, refugees or asylum seekers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As well as growing numbers of migrants and their increasing diversity, the nature of movement itself had changed in many cases from a permanent movement to settle in a new location…
The geographies of austerity
As late as mid-2007, to most observers, the global economic scene looked rosy. It seemed as though the laws of economics had changed: the advanced economies had rid themselves of inflation, the business cycle had been expunged and stable growth firmly established. Such was the conviction that a new economic era had arrived that in 2003 the Governor of the Bank of England described the previous decade as being NICE—a period of ‘non-inflationary co…
Spatial circuits of global finance
Harry Garretsen, Michael Kitson and Ron Martin Department of International Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands, [email protected] Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK, [email protected] Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK, [email protected]
Innovation, networks and knowledge exchange
A number of recent developments across the global economy have combined to put increasing emphasis on economic activity based on knowledge and innovation. This has been reflected not only in public policy towards universities but also in the approach of government—at national, regional and international level—towards both innovation policy and the formulation and promotion of national and regional economic strategies
Social capital, economic growth and regional development
Iyer S., Kitson M. and Toh B. (2005) Social capital, economic growth and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 1015–1040. This paper examines the relationships between social capital, economic performance and regional development, and it stresses the complexity and variability across space of such relationships. In contrast to the conventional macroeconomic approach of using indicators of social capital in formal growth models, what is requ…
Policy Debates
Regional Competitiveness: An Elusive yet Key Concept
This article does not have an abstract
Claude (le) Lorrain
Lorraine, House of
Labour markets, social justice and economic efficiency
In conventional economic theory, a trade-off supposedly exists between social justice and economic efficiency. In reality, market and other economic institutions are dominated by power relations, so that the sponsorship of social justice is a productive factor. Neo-liberal economic policies, by lifting the constraints on the exercise of unequal power, increased injustice and triggered a downward economic and social spiral. Reversing this requires…
Recession and Economic Revival in Britain: The Role of Policy in the 1930s and 1980s
During the 1980s economic policy in the UK increasingly embraced free-market economics. For many, this was a necessary shift which improved economic performance, whereas previous periods of increased intervention, such as the 1930s, had harmed the UK economy. This article takes an alternative perspective. It argues that economic revival in the 1930s was primarily policy-induced; whereas economic growth in the 1980s can be largely explained by the…
Britain's Industrial Performance since 1960: Underinvestment and Relative Decline
Journal Article Britain's Industrial Performance since 1960: Underinvestment and Relative Decline Get access Michael Kitson, Michael Kitson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan Michie Jonathan Michie Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 434, 1 January 1996, Pages 196–212, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234943 Published: 01 January 19…
Conflict, cooperation and change: The political economy of trade and trade policy
Domestic and international economic policy is still dominated by laissez‐faire economics, despite the failure of such policy analysis in the 1980s to have brought about the sort of economic growth and high employment witnessed through the 1950s and 1960s. The dominant feature of international trade theory is the assumed superiority of free trade and non‐intervention. In this paper we argue that the neo‐classical case for free trade is based on in…
Protectionism and Economic Revival: The British Interwar Economy
List of figures List of tables Preface Introduction 1. British interwar economic growth in an historical perspective 2. The impact of protectionism on economic growth: theoretical issues 3. Quantitative studies of the impact of the 1932 General Tariff 4. A macroeconomic analysis of the impact of the 1932 General Tariff 5. Industrial performance and trade policy: a disaggregated analysis 6. The 1930s economic revival: an overview Conclusion Notes …
Effective protection and economic recovery in the United Kingdom during the 1930s
Michael Kitson, Solomos Solomou, Martin Weale, Effective Protection and Economic Recovery in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 44, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 328-338
Computer Graphics in Art-and-Design Education: The Problem of Planning for Change
If we want to allow visual digital technology to evolve into a mature medium in its own right, we are going to have to work on it, and education is the key. ... ?'his is the major problem facing art & design education in these closing decades of the twentieth century. It's an intriguing and exciting problem and there are no precedents. The whole world of art and design is going to change dramatically in a very short space of time
Geographical Variations in Transport Costs of Manufacturing Firms in Great Britain
The authors examine the extent to which there are geographical variations in transport costs for manufacturing firms in Great Britain. A new methodology is adopted which provides important new insights and which avoids many of the limitations of earlier work. The research presents a new index of transport accessibility for different types of industry by a thirty area disaggregation in Great Britain and translates the accessibility measure into an…
Regional Competitiveness: An Elusive yet Key Concept
This article does not have an abstract
Social capital, economic growth and regional development
Iyer S., Kitson M. and Toh B. (2005) Social capital, economic growth and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 1015–1040. This paper examines the relationships between social capital, economic performance and regional development, and it stresses the complexity and variability across space of such relationships. In contrast to the conventional macroeconomic approach of using indicators of social capital in formal growth models, what is requ…
The geographies of austerity
As late as mid-2007, to most observers, the global economic scene looked rosy. It seemed as though the laws of economics had changed: the advanced economies had rid themselves of inflation, the business cycle had been expunged and stable growth firmly established. Such was the conviction that a new economic era had arrived that in 2003 the Governor of the Bank of England described the previous decade as being NICE—a period of ‘non-inflationary co…
The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector
The public sector appears under siege across the globe. While there are variations across and within nations in how this plays out, the arms of the state that provide the social safety net and protect citizens' well-being are especially at risk. The erosion of the state as an institution can be seen in cuts to social programmes and public sector jobs, underfunded infrastructure, the sale of public assets and other forms of privatization along wit…
Britain's Industrial Performance since 1960: Underinvestment and Relative Decline
Journal Article Britain's Industrial Performance since 1960: Underinvestment and Relative Decline Get access Michael Kitson, Michael Kitson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan Michie Jonathan Michie Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 434, 1 January 1996, Pages 196–212, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234943 Published: 01 January 19…
Global forces and local impacts: Megatrends in Regional Development
Policy Debates
Effective protection and economic recovery in the United Kingdom during the 1930s
Michael Kitson, Solomos Solomou, Martin Weale, Effective Protection and Economic Recovery in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 44, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 328-338
Differences in the Profitability of the U. K. Manufacturing Sector Between Conurbations and Other Areas
Innovation, networks and knowledge exchange
A number of recent developments across the global economy have combined to put increasing emphasis on economic activity based on knowledge and innovation. This has been reflected not only in public policy towards universities but also in the approach of government—at national, regional and international level—towards both innovation policy and the formulation and promotion of national and regional economic strategies
The impact of the New and Expanded Town programmes on industrial location in Britain, 1960–78
Fothergill S., Kitson M. and Monk S. (1983) The impact of the New and Expanded Town programmes on industrial location in Britain, 1960–78, Reg. Studies 17, 251–260. Between 1960 and 1978 manufacturing employment in the New and Expanded Towns rose by nearly a quarter of a million relative to the national trend in this sector. Part of the increase resulted from the urban-rural shift in manufacturing which occurred throughout Britain, but 120–140,00…
Innovation policy and place: A critical assessment
Innovation policy has become an integral part of modern industrial policy. This article considers the role of innovation and place through the lens of UK innovation policy. It argues that much of innovation policy is focused on the generation of innovations and not the diffusion and adoption of innovations throughout the economy. This focus will do little to slow or reverse regional diverges in economic performance. Innovation policy at the local…
Shifting contours of migration
In the call for articles for this issue of CJRES, we asked for articles that would address the phenomena of the increase of intra- and international migration of people, whether as economic migrants, refugees or asylum seekers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As well as growing numbers of migrants and their increasing diversity, the nature of movement itself had changed in many cases from a permanent movement to settle in a new location…
Spatial circuits of global finance
Harry Garretsen, Michael Kitson and Ron Martin Department of International Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands, [email protected] Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK, [email protected] Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK, [email protected]
Understanding the post-Covid state and its geographies
Perceptions of entrepreneurial ecosystems in remote islands and core regions
The existence of an effective entrepreneurial ecosystem is important for economic development and growth. This study considers how entrepreneurial ecosystems are perceived and operate in different locations focusing on remote islands compared to core/central regions
Conflict, cooperation and change: The political economy of trade and trade policy
Domestic and international economic policy is still dominated by laissez‐faire economics, despite the failure of such policy analysis in the 1980s to have brought about the sort of economic growth and high employment witnessed through the 1950s and 1960s. The dominant feature of international trade theory is the assumed superiority of free trade and non‐intervention. In this paper we argue that the neo‐classical case for free trade is based on in…
Computer Graphics in Art-and-Design Education: The Problem of Planning for Change
If we want to allow visual digital technology to evolve into a mature medium in its own right, we are going to have to work on it, and education is the key. ... ?'his is the major problem facing art & design education in these closing decades of the twentieth century. It's an intriguing and exciting problem and there are no precedents. The whole world of art and design is going to change dramatically in a very short space of time
Geographical Variations in Transport Costs of Manufacturing Firms in Great Britain
The authors examine the extent to which there are geographical variations in transport costs for manufacturing firms in Great Britain. A new methodology is adopted which provides important new insights and which avoids many of the limitations of earlier work. The research presents a new index of transport accessibility for different types of industry by a thirty area disaggregation in Great Britain and translates the accessibility measure into an…
The impact of the New and Expanded Town programmes on industrial location in Britain, 1960–78
Fothergill S., Kitson M. and Monk S. (1983) The impact of the New and Expanded Town programmes on industrial location in Britain, 1960–78, Reg. Studies 17, 251–260. Between 1960 and 1978 manufacturing employment in the New and Expanded Towns rose by nearly a quarter of a million relative to the national trend in this sector. Part of the increase resulted from the urban-rural shift in manufacturing which occurred throughout Britain, but 120–140,00…
Differences in the Profitability of the U. K. Manufacturing Sector Between Conurbations and Other Areas
Geographical Variations in Transport Costs of Manufacturing Firms in Great Britain
The authors examine the extent to which there are geographical variations in transport costs for manufacturing firms in Great Britain. A new methodology is adopted which provides important new insights and which avoids many of the limitations of earlier work. The research presents a new index of transport accessibility for different types of industry by a thirty area disaggregation in Great Britain and translates the accessibility measure into an…
Effective protection and economic recovery in the United Kingdom during the 1930s
Michael Kitson, Solomos Solomou, Martin Weale, Effective Protection and Economic Recovery in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 44, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 328-338
Computer Graphics in Art-and-Design Education: The Problem of Planning for Change
If we want to allow visual digital technology to evolve into a mature medium in its own right, we are going to have to work on it, and education is the key. ... ?'his is the major problem facing art & design education in these closing decades of the twentieth century. It's an intriguing and exciting problem and there are no precedents. The whole world of art and design is going to change dramatically in a very short space of time
Protectionism and Economic Revival: The British Interwar Economy
List of figures List of tables Preface Introduction 1. British interwar economic growth in an historical perspective 2. The impact of protectionism on economic growth: theoretical issues 3. Quantitative studies of the impact of the 1932 General Tariff 4. A macroeconomic analysis of the impact of the 1932 General Tariff 5. Industrial performance and trade policy: a disaggregated analysis 6. The 1930s economic revival: an overview Conclusion Notes …
Conflict, cooperation and change: The political economy of trade and trade policy
Domestic and international economic policy is still dominated by laissez‐faire economics, despite the failure of such policy analysis in the 1980s to have brought about the sort of economic growth and high employment witnessed through the 1950s and 1960s. The dominant feature of international trade theory is the assumed superiority of free trade and non‐intervention. In this paper we argue that the neo‐classical case for free trade is based on in…
Britain's Industrial Performance since 1960: Underinvestment and Relative Decline
Journal Article Britain's Industrial Performance since 1960: Underinvestment and Relative Decline Get access Michael Kitson, Michael Kitson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan Michie Jonathan Michie Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 434, 1 January 1996, Pages 196–212, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234943 Published: 01 January 19…
Recession and Economic Revival in Britain: The Role of Policy in the 1930s and 1980s
During the 1980s economic policy in the UK increasingly embraced free-market economics. For many, this was a necessary shift which improved economic performance, whereas previous periods of increased intervention, such as the 1930s, had harmed the UK economy. This article takes an alternative perspective. It argues that economic revival in the 1930s was primarily policy-induced; whereas economic growth in the 1980s can be largely explained by the…
Labour markets, social justice and economic efficiency
In conventional economic theory, a trade-off supposedly exists between social justice and economic efficiency. In reality, market and other economic institutions are dominated by power relations, so that the sponsorship of social justice is a productive factor. Neo-liberal economic policies, by lifting the constraints on the exercise of unequal power, increased injustice and triggered a downward economic and social spiral. Reversing this requires…
Claude (le) Lorrain
Lorraine, House of
Regional Competitiveness: An Elusive yet Key Concept
This article does not have an abstract
Social capital, economic growth and regional development
Iyer S., Kitson M. and Toh B. (2005) Social capital, economic growth and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 1015–1040. This paper examines the relationships between social capital, economic performance and regional development, and it stresses the complexity and variability across space of such relationships. In contrast to the conventional macroeconomic approach of using indicators of social capital in formal growth models, what is requ…
Policy Debates
Innovation, networks and knowledge exchange
A number of recent developments across the global economy have combined to put increasing emphasis on economic activity based on knowledge and innovation. This has been reflected not only in public policy towards universities but also in the approach of government—at national, regional and international level—towards both innovation policy and the formulation and promotion of national and regional economic strategies
Spatial circuits of global finance
Harry Garretsen, Michael Kitson and Ron Martin Department of International Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands, [email protected] Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK, [email protected] Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK, [email protected]
The geographies of austerity
As late as mid-2007, to most observers, the global economic scene looked rosy. It seemed as though the laws of economics had changed: the advanced economies had rid themselves of inflation, the business cycle had been expunged and stable growth firmly established. Such was the conviction that a new economic era had arrived that in 2003 the Governor of the Bank of England described the previous decade as being NICE—a period of ‘non-inflationary co…
Shifting contours of migration
In the call for articles for this issue of CJRES, we asked for articles that would address the phenomena of the increase of intra- and international migration of people, whether as economic migrants, refugees or asylum seekers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As well as growing numbers of migrants and their increasing diversity, the nature of movement itself had changed in many cases from a permanent movement to settle in a new location…
Academic engagement and commercialisation: A review of the literature on university–industry relations
A considerable body of work highlights the relevance of collaborative research, contract research, consulting and informal relationships for university–industry knowledge transfer. We present a systematic review of research on academic scientists’ involvement in these activities to which we refer as ‘academic engagement’. Apart from extracting findings that are generalisable across studies, we ask how academic engagement differs from commercialis…
The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector
The public sector appears under siege across the globe. While there are variations across and within nations in how this plays out, the arms of the state that provide the social safety net and protect citizens' well-being are especially at risk. The erosion of the state as an institution can be seen in cuts to social programmes and public sector jobs, underfunded infrastructure, the sale of public assets and other forms of privatization along wit…
Perceptions of entrepreneurial ecosystems in remote islands and core regions
The existence of an effective entrepreneurial ecosystem is important for economic development and growth. This study considers how entrepreneurial ecosystems are perceived and operate in different locations focusing on remote islands compared to core/central regions
Innovation policy and place: A critical assessment
Innovation policy has become an integral part of modern industrial policy. This article considers the role of innovation and place through the lens of UK innovation policy. It argues that much of innovation policy is focused on the generation of innovations and not the diffusion and adoption of innovations throughout the economy. This focus will do little to slow or reverse regional diverges in economic performance. Innovation policy at the local…
Understanding the post-Covid state and its geographies
William Metcalf, Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares
William Metcalf, Utopian Dreams and Dystopian NightmaresBrisbane: Boolarong Press, 2022, 196 pp., A$34.99, ISBN: 9 7819 2264 3445
Economics (18 works) · Political science (14 works) · Geography (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Regional Development and Policy (7 works) · Regional science (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (6 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (6 works)