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Luis Suarez-Villa

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Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University
Phone: 824-6323
Office: 218C SEI

Specializations: planning and public policy, regional science, technological change and regional development

Summary of Research Interests:
Technology and innovation, economic and social development (regional, urban, international), critical analyses of technology and corporate organization.

International research: Western Europe (Spain, Austria, Sweden), East Asia (South Korea), Latin America (Brazil, Mexico), North America (United States).

Selected Publications

  • Suarez-Villa, Luis. "Collaboration in Biotechnology: How Inter-Firm Relations Strengthen Research Efforts in the USA." International Journal of Technology Management 27 (2004), 390-414.

    Suarez-Villa, Luis. "The E-economy and the Rise of Technocapitalism: Networks, Firms and Transportation." Growth and Change 34 (2003), 390-414.

    Suarez-Villa, Luis. "Regional Inversion in the United States: The Institutional Context for the Rise of the Sunbelt since the 1940s." Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 93 (2002), 424-442.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis. Invention and the Rise of Technocapitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis and Wallace Walrod. "Operational Strategy, R&D, and Intra-metropolitan Clustering in a Polycentric Structure: The Advanced Electronics Industries of the Los Angeles Basin." Urban Studies 34 (1997), 1343-1380. (Donald Robertson Memorial Prizewinner for 1997).
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis and Charles Karlsson. "The Development of Sweden's R&D-intensive Electronics Industries: Exports, Outsourcing and Territorial Distribution." Environment and Planning A 28 (1996), 783-818.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis and Ruth Rama. "Outsourcing, R&D and the Pattern of Intra-metropolitan Location: The Electronics Industries of Madrid." Urban Studies 33 (1996), 1155-1197.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis and Manfred M. Fischer. "Technology, Organization and Export-driven Research and Development in Austria's Electronics Industry." Regional Studies 29 (1995), 19-42.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis and Syed A. Hasnath. "The Effect of Infrastructure on Invention: Innovative Capacity and the Dynamics of Public Construction Investment." Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 44 (1993), 333-358.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis. "The Dynamics of Regional Invention and Innovation: Innovative Capacity and Regional Change in the Twentieth Century." Geographical Analysis 25 (1993), 147-164.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis and Juan R. Cuadrado Roura. "Thirty Years of Spanish Regional Change: Interregional Dynamics and Sectoral Transformation." International Regional Science Review 15 (1993), 121-156.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis and Pyo-Hwan Han. "Organizations, Space and Capital in the Development of Korea's Electronics Industry," Regional Studies 25 (1991), 327-343.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis. "Invention, Inventive Learning, and Innovative Capacity," Behavioral Science, 35 (1990), 290-310.
  • Other Selected Publications:
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis. "The Rise of Technocapitalism." Science Studies 14 (2001), 4-20.
  • Fischer, Manfred M., Luis Suarez-Villa and Michael Steiner (editors). Innovation, Networks and Localities (Springer-Verlag, 1999).
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis. "The Structures of Cooperation: Downscaling, Outsourcing and the Networked Alliance." Small Business Economics 10 (1998), 5-16.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis and Pyo-Hwan Han. "The Rise of Korea's Electronics Industry: Technological Change, Growth, and Territorial Distribution." Economic Geography 66 (1990), 273-292.
  • Suarez-Villa, Luis. "Metropolitan Evolution, Sectoral Economic Change, and the City Size Distribution." Urban Studies 25 (1988), 1-20.
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