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Dedication -- Foreword -- The Emergence of Less Likely Places -- From Raw Materials to Killer Apps -- New Companies from an Old World -- From Copacabana to the NASDAQ: The Silent Latin American Revolution -- In Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Black Swans -- Enter the Place Surplus -- Notes About the Research -- Selecting the 11 Black Swan Firms -- Exploring the Black Swan Start-up's 'Grocery Basket' -- References -- 2: Start-up Success and the Five Types of Place Surplus -- Organic Models -- The Silicon Valley Model

The competition for highly skilled labour continues to be fierce and is taking a more institutionalized pattern across most of the developed world. This article sketches the changes in policies, legislations, and procedures across various EU countries and compares these with those of other developed countries.The article shows that EU member states not only compete with non‐EU countries and regions but also among themselves in order to attract and maintain sufficient flows of highly skilled labour.

Economic diversification : new thinking -- Industrial diversification and the evolving position of natural resources in the Canadian economy -- Diversification of the saudi economy : challenges and prospects -- Diversification in latin american oil exporters : was no intervention a better policy option? -- Economic diversification in Malaysia : timing, path dependence and increasing returns -- Diversification, dutch disease and economic growth: options for Uganda -- Economic diversification in Australia -- Economic diversification in Russia : nuclear to the rescue? -- Kazakhstan's diversification strategy : are policies building linkages and promoting competition? -- The role of institutions on economic diversification : the case of UAE -- Double diversification with an application to Iceland -- Industrial diversification processes and strategies in an oil economy : Norway -- Old and new directions for economic diversification policies