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The paper presents the results of a research project for answering this question for the case of the Halle region. It is based on an empirical analysis (two postal surveys on PRU and on knowledge-based private firms) with a focus on the most important types of knowledge transfers.

The regional differences in entrepreneurial activity are only one manifestation of the large regional differences in Croatia. From this it is obvious that Croatia needs regional policy as a part of its overall development policy.

The 2004 Index tells the story of continuing economic restructuring as the Valley’s future begins to take shape. Although the Valley continued to lose jobs in its traditional hardware and software sectors, the rate of regional job loss slowed. In several industries, the Valley lost a smaller percentage of jobs than the nation, especially in the biomedical area.

The report outlines the action steps needed for the Prosperity Partnership to move forward on developing a strategy and taking critically important action toward a shared goal: long-term economic prosperity and 100,000 new jobs for the central Puget Sound region.

This paper shows that China is catching up rapidly with other dynamic Asian economies and the Triad economies on a score of indicators relating to the knowledge-based economy.

The paper demonstrates that productivity rests on five elements of the economy: infrastructure, capital, trade, education and aggregate efficiency.

This paper studies the correlation between inequality, measured by the Gini coefficent of incomes, and the growth rate of per capita GDP in a panel of countries between the late 1950s and late 1990s.

The tables in this book indicate how well Oregon is doing relative to other states in giving its businesses a competitive advantage. Most of these indicators are organized according to the Four P categories - Pioneering Innovation, People, Place, and Productivity. A fifth category, “Well Being” suggests how Oregon and Oregonians are doing as a result of their relative standing in the Four Ps – in per capita income, for example.

This report is the first step toward evaluating the overall impact of the program on Minnesotas rural economy.

This paper studies convergence in per-capita GDP across European regions over the period 1980-2000. The authors use median unbiased estimators of the rate of convergence to the steady-state growth path, while allowing for unrestricted patterns of heterogeneity and spatial correlation across regions.