deals with social capital as an extra-market externality, and its role for innovations and growth. It analyses the changes of innovation activity over time, from early industrialism to the global knowledge economy, how the relations between the actors of today’s innovation systems have developed and the role of social networks for innovations. The role of public policy in building social capital for innovations and growth is analyzed.
This paper analyses empirically the link between regional inequalities and economic development. Results provide strong support for such a bell-shaped curve and are robust to changing the regional administrative units and the time period, as well as controlling for other possible determinants of regional inequalities.
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down, the author states. This paper documents that in particular the 18-29 year-olds are leaving East Germany and that the emigration has accelerated in recent years.
Since policy makers usually pursue several conflicting objectives, policy making can be understood as a multicriteria decision problem, according to the authors. Following the methodological proposal in André and Cardenete (2005), the authors use multiobjective programming in connection with a computable general equilibrium model to represent optimal policy making and to get so-called efficient policies in an application to a regional economy (Andalusia, Spain).
The paper provides a survey of theoretical and empirical findings highlighting the question of how geographically limited knowledge diffusion can help to explain clusters of regions with persistently different levels of growth.
This report details the prospects of cross-border economic development for three rural North Carolina counties. Recommendations are divided into four categories, including program design, stakeholders, funding, and legal hurdles.
This guidebook outlines a a process for collecting key measures of innovation that can then be used to drive regional innovation programs and policies.
This article introduces the problem of regional patterns of financial constraints. The research is conducted with regard to the French regions and the new French firms being tracked at the firm level. It appears that a majority of new firms is not facing credit rationing, but also that a non-negligible share is "self-constrained". The classification is, third and finally, differentiated according to the regions. Despite the relative homogeneity of the banking supply, it appears that some regional differences may still be at work.
This paper reviews existing empirical findings for regionalization of the Swedish university system and its impact of regional and national innovation systems. The conclusion is that regionalization of the Swedish system for higher education and research has been driven by multitude of factors and interests, both external and internal to the system itself.
This paper has a twofold aim: the former is to focus on the concept of well-being/quality of life and its relationships with local sustainable development and the latter is to apply the capability approach at regional level.