Download or read book Gateways to the Global Economy written by Åke E. Andersson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gateway regions are nodes that act as saddle points between a region and the global economy. This work discusses infrastructure networks such as the Internet and air transport, as well as networking activities such as long-distance scientific cooperation, financial networks, and direct investments. Contributors have expertise in fields such as regional economics, economic geography, institutional economics, and business administration. Ake Andersson teaches infrastructure and planning at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. David Andersson is research fellow at the Institute of Economics at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR