regions

This paper analyzes the empirical relationship between regional specialization and fiscal decentralization for a panel of 15 Member States of the European Union, controlling for regional and other institutional determinants. The analysis shows that rather autonomous regions tend to diverse their production structure in order to insure against adverse supply shocks.

This paper focuses on the impact of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) concepts on location preferences of office keeping organisations. To measure this impact, a stated preference experiment has been conducted in the Netherlands and involves office keeping organisations in selected city regions. The paper describes the first results of a model describing the attractiveness of location profiles, which are based on location preference attributes, and the role of ITS in these profiles.

This paper examines the nature of interregional competition and complementarity in Greece. Covering the 1975-2002 period, the analysis provides a picture of the interregional interactions by focusing on derived linkages between the regional economies.

This paper studies 46 major city-regions across Europe. The sectoral structure and changes in the sectoral structure of city-regions are studied using data from CE’s European Regional Database, itself based on Eurostat’s Regio database. The data analysis attempts to explain city-region performance by drawing parallels between sectoral structure and economic performance.

The authors investigate the contribution of different inputs, particularly different knowledge sources, on regional patenting output in the framework of a knowledge production function. One main finding is that the quality of the university research makes some contribution to regional innovation while the mere size of the universities is unimportant.

The paper focuses on measuring the spatial differentiating influence of ICT factors within Hungary. By the means of regression models it is presented what explanatory force can be connected to ICT factors in determining the level of regional competitiveness and development.

This article presents network-facilitating innovation policy as a policy tool for promoting regional innovative capability. The new policies are crying out for new means for evaluating changes in regional innovation systems.

The authors examine whether discretionary government grants influence the location of new plants. Findings indicate that Grants have a small effect in attracting plants to specific geographic areas, but their effectiveness increases with agglomeration externalities,
measured by the number of other plants in that location in the same industry.

A regional e-cluster system and its cybernetics are characterised by a high degree of complexity which requires a comprehensive strategy, according to the authors. The identification of the key components of this e-cluster system and its interrelationships show that the component “knowledge management” is a critical and decisive process in an e-cluster system.

The article discusses the case of Finnish universities and polytechnics in re-defining their roles in regional development and especially in regional innovation environment. The article introduces the concept of “third task organisations” to describe these units within universities and polytechnics with regional effectiveness as their primary mission.