According to the authors, the knowledge is assuming a leading role between production factors, changing from enabling element to success critical factor in enterprises competition. The meaning of knowledge used in this paper is that of technological innovation (both of product and of process) useful in the industrial environment.
The study estimates Japan’s business network
structure based on inter-regional information traffic data, in order to clarify longitudinal changes in branch office function headquarter and branch office arrangement. Results show that branch-offices becomes to concentrate on transportation-hub cities. Further, the interactions between headquarter to branch office becomes much knowledge intensive than before.
The paper discusses the requirements and problems of organizing government support
to new ventures in regional project networks referred to as New Venture Support Networks. In particular, the focus is on the role of key actors in facilitating and maintaining network cooperation given the challenge posed by the heterogeneous partner structure and the “artificial."
The paper is based on recent studies done in the Department of Business Administration at Lappeenranta University of Technology, the goal of which was to find out whether regional strategy processes help to produce and strengthen the trust between regional actors.
Using a 20-year long database, comprising NUTS II regions in five European countries, the authors assess whether or not the evolution of regional
disparities within European nations has become pro-cyclical.
The authors examine regional networks as a new way of the spatial organization of the economy and a new tool for regional policy. Three basic regional networks are distinguished: the networks of enterprises and organizations, the networks of enterprises and organizations with the participation of authorities, the networks of cities and
settlements.
The paper highlights the role of geographic spillover effects due to the regional funds on the convergence process of 145 European regions over 1989-1999.
The authors explain that marketing conceptual framework has started to apply widely also as an instrument of regional and municipal development in transition economies. Transformation of proprietary relations and democratization of managing
processes has caused an interest in this discipline in conditions of the Slovak Republic.
According to the authors, the paper helps reconcile
the heterogeneous findings of previous research and introduces a unique measure of regional economic activity that combines a number of individual regional variables into a single index that is allowed to vary by state.
The paper explores the determinants of regional differences in firm creation rates by using a new data set of 4036 individual firms from Southwest Germany around 1900. According to the author, the time period around 1900 might have had a critical mass of firm creators, thus it was possible to achieve substantial economic growth.