The quality function deployment (QFD) theory focuses on customer needs and expectations and methodically deploys them through product design, parts selection, process planning and production planning, leading to shorter design times and more customer‐oriented products. It is demonstrated that...

This paper uses data for 255 NUTS-2 European regions over the period 1995-2003 to test the relative explanatory performance of two important rival theories seeking to explain variations in the level of economic development across regions, namely the neoclassical model originating from the work...

1 Location Theory and Analysis -- 2 Regional Housing and Labour Markets -- 3 Regional Economic Growth -- 4 Innovation and Regional Economic Development -- 5 New Economic Geography and Evolutionary Economic Geography -- 6 Location and Interaction -- 7 Environmental and Natural Resources -- 8...