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Chapter 10, "Addressing Unevenness" is the most attractive part here: it connects behavioural theory to (regional) economic development, transformation, and well-being. Chapter 8 is the crowning achievement to which the two preceding chapter built up: they provided an analysis how "culture and personality can be measured and examined as a process of co-evolution" (p. 191), and chapter 8 links the resulting "human agency potential" to entrepreneurship and innovation. Although these chapters read like earlier papers or reports that have now been integrated into the book, they still provide valuable inpiration for how the connection from agents to regions actually can work. [Extracted from the article]

The book I Cultural heritage, creativity and economic development i by Silvia Cerisola proposes a territorial approach to study the relationship between cultural heritage and economic development. Chapter 1 introduces the conceptual framework of the book, discusses the research questions and defines the unit of the analysis. Chapter 3 emphasizes the idea that cultural heritage may have an indirect impact on economic development that is related to the concept of creativity. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Building National and Regional Innovation Systems: Institutions for Economic Development," by Jorge Niosi.

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