Innovation Policy for Grand Challenges. An Economic Geography Perspective

Economic Geography and Innovation Clusters

Innovation of novel antibiotics: an economic perspective.

Despite the public attention to antibiotic overuse and the specter of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, current infections necessitate the use of antibiotics. Yet, patients and providers may not fully consider the societal cost associated with inappropriate antimicrobial use and subsequent resistance. Policies intended to limit use to minimize resistance must be balanced with the competing con...

Regional economics: a new economic geography perspective

This journal has been launched in 1972 under the title Regional and Urban Economics, which is almost the name of the JEL-classification entry R. The first point we wish to make is that, by the time this journal was launched, urban economics was already a well-established field drawing on new concepts and tools. By contrast, the scientific status of regional economics was less clear in that regi...

Grand Challenges in Public Health Policy

INTRODUCTION Fifteen years into the twenty-first century, the challenges for public health may have changed but have not diminished. Complacency, systems inertia, and national selfinterest remain powerful barriers to global and universal health improvement. As joint chief editors for this new specialty journal, we lay out an ambitious mission: to work with the editorial board and colleagues wor...

Grand Challenges and Opportunities for Molecular Psychiatry Research: A Perspective

Molecular psychiatry is a still nascent fi eld, aspiring to imitate the great development of revolutionary tools and techniques achieved elsewhere. The rapid development of new methods such as high-throughput genomic and bioinformatics technologies has greatly advance our understanding of the pathology and etiology of most, if not all, psychiatric disorders, far beyond what we would have expect...