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'Regional identities and competitiveness in a globalised environment : new challenges for Greek regions' : 51st European Congress of the Regional Science Association International,...
Nikoli, Anastasia; Zigouri, Fotini - 2011
Over the last decades, at a European level, efforts have been made so that regions become capable of sustainable economic growth, with great social cohesion and better distribution of wealth, while at the same time under open market conditions, they are being exposed to external competitiveness....
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Creative class as a determinant of economic development : empirical considerations for North Rhine-Westphalian regions based on time series analysis : paper presented on the 51st E...
Hamm, Rüdiger - 2011
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...
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Does globalization affect regional growth? : evidence for NUTS-2 regions in EU-27
Polasek, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2011 - Preprint
We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between … globalization, integration and technology transfers on European regions. The results suggest that most regions have significantly … benefited from globalization measured by increasing trade openness and FDI. In a non-linear growth convergence model the growth …
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University-industry linkages and the role of the geographical proximity : (paper presented to the ERSA 2010 Congress "New Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globa...
Garcia, Renato; Araujo, Veneziano de Castro; Mascarini, … - 2011
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),...
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Looking for the core of a knowledge-based sea cluster : a social network analysis in a maritime region : paper number 510.00 accepted to refereed Special S sessions for the Session...
Cruz, Ana Rita; Gonçalves, Ana Isabel; Pinto, Hugo; … - 2011
For more than two decades cluster policies have emerged as a central focus for decision-makers trying to instigate territorial development. The benefits, especially in terms of collective learning, knowledge sharing and other types of agglomeration economies and spill-over effects, are well...
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"Integrated urban regeneration : an empirical study of the normative framework in spanish regions" : new challenges for European regions and urban areas in a globalised world : ERS...
Fuertes Eugenio, Ana María; Maset-Llaudes, Amparo; … - 2011
The current urban planning model for Spanish cities does not meet the criteria for successful urban sustainability, in fact quite the opposite, it follows the disperse city model introduced twenty years ago by the boom in the construction industry and improved communication infrastructures. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524745
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The concept of territorial cohesion : how to apply it to monitoring development of northern Polish regions : 51st International European Congress of the Regional Science Associatio...
Sołtys, Jacek - 2011
Territorial cohesion (TC) is a multi dimensional concept, but lacking precision and not easy to be operationalized. Analysed are different scopes (or segments) of the concept and the indicators of its implementation in policy planning and decisionmaking. Amongst the already used in practice or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527421
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Development of trade blocs in an era of globalization : proximity still matters
Kohl, Tristan; Brouwer, Aleid E. - 2011 - Version: 19 May 2011, first preliminary draft
This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the … influenced by geographical and political factors; after all, proximity matters. To explain how mechanism of globalization changed …
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An assessment of institutional restructuring in regional policy : New Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globalised World, 51st European Congress of the Regional...
Eldeniz, Feyza - 2011
Regional policy arrangements are extremely complicated and there are various basic constituents for regional economic development such as accession the economic core, competitiveness in leading sector, capital and labour accumulation to be taken hold by regions. As the scope of this paper in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555268
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Title: Emergent multimedia clusters in the Lille, Lyon and Marseille metropolitan areas : 51st ERSA Congress in Barcelona, 30th August - 3rd September 2011, New challenges for Euro...
Bruno, Lusso - 2011
The spatial, organizational and institutional proximity plays an important part in the geography of economic development (Boschma, 2005). It is therefore important to see what kinds of networks are being developed within the multimédia sector between the different actors of the Triple Helix...
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