The knowledge-based economy/society challenges and changes organisations, institutions and job contents generated by new requirements and the increasingly complex and dynamic environment in which they are compelled to act. Institutions and organisations, public or private, need to adjust rapidly...

The issue of regional development has captured the atention of recearchers long UMA, but some trends in contemporary economy and international division of labor, cooperation,integration and globalisation bring it back to the forefront of current theoretical and metholodigical concerns.