This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure. It begins by reviewing existing indicators and models of regional specialization before outlining a newly created, spatially embedded model of specialization based on the spatial distribution of firms. It addresses the various applications of the model, and how the model can be used in regional policy.

With its interdisciplinary application, this book should appeal to academics, applied researchers and policy makers as well as newcomers to the field of regional specialisation.

Katarzyna Kopczewska  quantitative regional economist, spatial econometrician, works at Department of Statistics and Econometrics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Pawe Churski - economic geographer, works in the Department of Regional Analysis at the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna, Poland.

Artur Ochojski  urban and innovation economist, works in the Department of Strategic and Regional Research at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland.