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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.

This paper analyzes the impact universities have on regional development and as to whether a difference can be detected between the influence of the old and new universities. The results reveal that there are considerable differences across universities, albeit primarily unrelated to the age of the universities.

This paper explores regional unemployment and participation data that distinguish gender, age and educational attainment. The authors observe a panel of 40 Dutch regions over the period 1992 - 2003.

This paper analyzes the evolution of labor productivity disparities among 145 European regions over 1975-2000 according to the concepts of sigma- and beta-convergence and emphasizes the importance of including both spatial effects and a disaggregated analysis at a sectoral level.

The authors investigate whether space and spatial relationships play a significant role in the specification of the relationship between regional inequality and
regional growth. In particular, they analyse the case of European Regions, including the transition countries that recently joined the EU.

This paper examines the role of institutional factors in the economic growth of Mexican regions. Following on from the documents presented at the ERSA Annual Conferences of 2003-2004, it contains an analysis of two of these regions and seeks to illustrate the characteristics and evolution of their institutional frameworks as well as their relationship with economic growth.

The goal of the study is to determine whether commonly used inequality measures (Gini, coefficient of variation, etc.) produce meaningful estimates when applied to small countries, thus making it possible to compare the results of analysis obtained for such countries with those obtained elsewhere.

This paper analyses the potential role of the municipal authorities of Vienna in supporting and shaping the metropolitan innovation system. Based on a survey of innovation networks in the Vienna urban region, basic structural features of these networks - types of partners, their location and the kind of relations between them - are presented. From these results, conclusions concerning the design of urban innovation policy - its potential scope and effectiveness, reasonable priorities and inevitable limits - are drawn.