Foreign Direct Investment and Cities

Introduction. PART I: Cities in Advanced Economies as Locations for FDI 1. Case 1: London’s Royal Albert Dock redevelopment: a Chinese dream turned nightmare (Jacopo Dettoni) 2. Case 2: Gorillas in New York: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the expansion of delivery services (Petra Smith) 3. Case 3: Building the shop window for inward investment into Cambridge, UK (Harriet Fear, Duncan McCunn and Christopher Williams) 4. Case 4: From Nokia to Unicorns, the Evolutions of FDI in the Helsinki Region (Michel Lemagnen) 5. Case 5: The failure of China State Grid in acquiring Eandis in Flanders: A marriage takes more than two (Haiyan Zhang and Zhiping Zhu) PART 2: Cities in Transition and Emerging Economies as Locations for FDI 6. Case 6: The evolution of FDI across the value chain –Johannesburg (South Africa) (Davide Castellani, Katiuscia Lavoratori and Frans Van der Colff) 7. Case 7: FDI-led development in Ho Chi Minh City (Tom Becker) 8. Case 8: International Capital, National Politics and Investment in Secondary Cities in Africa:The Case of the Stalled Bagamoyo Port Project in Tanzania (Kristian Hoelscher) 9. Case 9: From coal town to Esports hub: Katowice’s path to post-industrial revival (Alex Irwin-Hunt) PART 3: Technology, FDI and Cities 10. Case 10: Hi-tech investment in Paris (Ana Colovic) 11. Case 11: Attracting Cutting-Edge Technologies to Local Ecosystems - the Scaleup Landing Pad Hamburg (Joachim Arnold) 12. Case 12: Tel Aviv - Yafo: The Rise of a Start-Up Powerhouse attracting Global FDI (Ruxandra Steriu) 13. Case 13: Inward Greenfield R&D Foreign Direct Investment and the Development of Shenzhen’s Innovation Ecosystem (Ludan Wu and Dylan Sutherland) 14. Case 14: Foreign Direct Investment, international collaboration and knowledge community development: a case study of Suzhou Industry Park (Juana Du and Charles Krusekopf) PART 4: Sustainable Development and Resilience in Cities through FDI 15. Case 15: Diffusing water management know-how between a French MNE and an Indian utilities company in Chennai, India: la mayonnaise n'a pas pris (Akil Amiraly) 16. Case 16: FDI on the Frontlines: Kingspan’s Wartime Investment in Lviv (Courtney Fingar) 17. Case 17: Revitalizing Teesside, UK: The Remarkable Journey from Loss-Making Steelworks to a Renewable Energy Hub through FDI and Local Government Support (Maurice Wokke)18. Case 18: Going for Green: Competing for Green FDI Projects in the Nordics (Iiris Saittakari and Douglas van den Berghe). Concluding comments.