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based on series of studies focusing on urban economic development (UED)-policies,the author argues that in a knowledge economy the nature of UED-policies are changing, the new forms of power are emerging and consequently the significance of leadership is rising.

The aim of the paper is to study factors and phenomena, which facilitate cooperation of partners within proinnovative networks, as well as describe problems, which are, faced both when setting up such a network and in its day by day business.

The paper attempts to analyse the role that local institutions have played for the development of the pharmaceutical, chemical and electronic industries.

The Regional Development Platform Method is presented as a tool for designing and managing regional innovation system. It consists of eight phases, in which the underlying potential in the region is explored and the exploitation of the potential organised.

The main research focus is concentrated on new challenges in regional development processes resulting from the EU-strategy to foster sustainable regional development in the member states.

The main purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the difficulty of urban/ regional co-operation in Greece focusing on the overshadowing of its capital Athens by the state. The focus is not on the documentation, but rather on a synthesis of strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats for the metropolitan area in a national context.

Today numerous activities which seem to be sound, cosy and helpful – or sometimes simply useful –
are called sustainable, according to the authors. At the same time the requirements for measuring sustainability increased rapidly. Many different systems of indicators and conflicting opinions about the adequate approach characterise the recent discussion. Nevertheless, the authors add another system with the specific approach to measure the process quality of sustainable development on local and regional level.

The economic regional convergence process has attracted much attention through the last decade by regional scientists, according to the author. This paper tries to deep in this topic, taking into account as a unit of analysis the role that cities have in regional convergence.

In response to the Virginia General Assemblys HB2639, the report outlines specific recommendations to propel Virginia into a leadership position with regard to the incubation of new high-tech industry through innovative changes that create friendly working relationships with universities, government labs, industries and other Virginia organizations, and through access to capital and other infrastructure throughout the state.

The report summarizes the changes in economic conditions in enterprise zone areas and on enterprise zone tax credit activity in Colorado.