This chapter explores how the economic and political difficulties of the interwar period and the immediate postwar era forced politicians, economists, and institutions to rethink the European economic and monetary system. Triffin was a key figure in that dynamic and quick to spot the fundamental...

Since some years Richard Florida's ideas on the creative class have attracted a great deal of theoretical and empirical attention. One part of his theory says that the "creative class" - people with highly creative and innovative abilities - are the driving force of regional economic...

We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between 2001 and 2006. The spatial Chow-Lin procedure, a method constructed by the authors, was used to construct on a NUTS-2 level a complete regional data for exports, imports and...

This paper is concerned with developing a better understanding of the dynamics that affect the relationship between industries and their geographical and spatial context at different scale in the XXI century. It shows the peculiar point of view of a planner with a focus on space and place in...

The main aim of this paper is to exam the local dimension of the university and industry linkages. It is widely recognized in the literature that academic research is an important source of new knowledge to the innovative efforts of the firms. Many authors, such as Audrescht and Feldman (1996),...

At the moment, interest in electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing worldwide, mainly due to concerns about climate change and rising prices of fossil fuels. EVs still have some significant drawbacks compared to gasoline-powered cars. However, a small part of the population is expected to adopt...