...Ekaterina Turkina; Nasrin Sultana Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and cities and how the relationship between multinational enterprise (MNEs) and local firms facilitates regional cleantech innovation. Design/methodology...

...Simona Iammarino; Philip McCann; Raquel Ortega-Argilés Purpose This paper aims to explain how thinking regarding multinationals, competitiveness and location in cities has evolved over the past five decades and how our current understanding and thinking about future challenges is contingent...

...Khee Giap Tan; Nguyen Trieu Duong Luu; Le Phuong Anh Nguyen Purpose Cost of living is an important consideration for the decision-making of expatriates and investment decisions of businesses. As competition between cities for talent and capital becomes global instead of national, the need...

...Khee Giap Tan; Tongxin NIE; Shinae Baek Purpose – This paper aims to apply a comprehensive Liveability Cities index to rank the liveability of 100 cities in the Greater China Region. Against the backdrop of the ongoing trend of rapid and extensive urbanisation observed in China, “liveability...

.... They have lower wages, lower productivity and do not generate spillovers like traded clusters. They are dispersed relatively evenly across all jurisdictions in a country. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Creativity Cities Occupations Regional development Clusters Metros...