Regional Development: Diversities and Disparities

In identifying the key elements of regional culture that impact upon socio-economic development, this informative text concentrates on three main factors:

• the Socio-Industrial Culture that is concerned with the knowledge, beliefs and values associated with production. A particular contrast is drawn between the socio-industrial culture associated with Taylorist mass production and that associated with anthropocentric production systems
• the Research Culture which is concerned with the gener...