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This paper attempts to define the main determinant factors of entrepreneurial and innovation activities. In particular, the paper attempts to analyze, using an econometric approach, the effects of entrepreneurship on innovation activities and furthermore to clarify the implication on regional system of innovation, competitiveness, modernization process and regional growth.

This paper presents a theoretical model on institutional prerequisites for SMEs to overcome the need for geographical proximity in the context of innovation and learning. The model is based on innovation system and knowledge management approaches but extend these approaches to evolutionary institutional processes including the role of cognitive patterns and trust.

This paper develops multiple indicators to map the geographical distribution of knowledge and scientific and technological capabilities as proxies of the geographical distribution of science, technology and innovation activities, and applies such indicators to data and information from the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

The author provides an outline of the main questions and the effects of areal delimitation on the theories and methodology of regional economics.

The aim of this paper is analyse the process of innovation in a transterritorial view and illustrate a perspective of innovation that reflect the better performance innovative of the territory depends of different characteristics of the milieu and evaluate the important conditions for dynamics of innovation. The study looks at five sub regions of the transborder region of central region Portuguese and Spanish: Raia Central Ibérica.

The author investigates the impact of FDI intensity, export orientation, and regional specialisation on regional growth in Hungary. Findings indicate that the share of agricultural employment and the change in export orientation of the regions are the paramount determinants of regional growth. Investment per capita, the change in the employment rate, FDI density and the change in regional specialisation are found to enhance regional growth in some but not all specifications.

The specific concern in this paper is the co-ordination difficulties within a target-setting regime where there are negative policy spillovers across regions and where these spillovers are not common knowledge amongst the government and the delegated agencies. The authors demonstrate that where one policy objective has negative spillovers, there will be a switch in expenditure towards that policy that has the externality.

This paper reports the results of a survey about important journals in regional science. A web-based survey among regional scientists produces results about their opinion about the quality and reputation of regional science journals. The results are analyzed for stability over various characteristics of respondents like age, affiliation, nationality, main area of specialication, etc. The results are also compared to those derived from an analysis of publication records, citations and impact factors.

The authors report empirical evidence on the effects of human capital in the sample of Spanish regions. Results suggest that human capital has exerted a significant effect in the Spanish regions, which is stronger in the less developed ones.

The aim of the Cultural Gateways project is the development of a sustainable urban-rural relationship in the organisation of tourist regions around main urban destination. This paper introduces the main lines of the research and proposes a conceptual framework for the analysis of a number of case studies.