Note from the Editors: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies - Volume 17, Number 3, 2011

Abstract

It is our pleasure to invite you to browse through the last of the three issues of the 'Australasian Journal of Regional Studies' for 2011. In putting together this issue we have been stunned by two things. One is the diversity of subject matter now in the Regional Science domain and the second concerns the increasing qualitative rather than quantitative flavour of articles received. While theory construction and the statistical analysis of large data sets and resultant model building are still a core component of our work - and especially for the two co-editors of this journal, the precise detail of the structure and organisation of the space-economy owes much to the role of leading actors. Their personalities, psychology, drive, networking capacities, entrepreneurship and imaginations can be crucially important in charting local economic trajectories within the ambit of globalisation, capital flows, resource endowment, and infrastructure supply.