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Suburban Development of St Petersburg: comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions
Limonov, Leonid - European Regional Science Association - 2014
-words: Regional Development, Metropolitan Area, Environment, Suburban, Inequality, City Size, Inner City, Municipalities … gardening cooperatives ("sadovodstva") into regular settlements (municipalities) with all necessary infrustructure 6 … special attention to St Petersburg Metropolitan Area, which includes a number of municipalities, located in Leningrad Oblast. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076024
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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area: the impact of centrality and peripherality
Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740400
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Development Gaps in the Sud Muntenia Region of Romania
Iordan, Marioara; Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Ghizdeanu, Ion; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Development gaps are a common feature throughout the regions of the European Union, and Romania is no exception. Despite all the political and financial efforts, the convergence process is lengthy and complex, and the gaps with the deepest economic and social roots are the most difficult to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740477
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Sequential city growth in the US: Does age matter?
Sánchez-Vidal, María; González-Val, Rafael; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131987
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Knowledge-based local economic development in the less developed region: ELI Science Park in Hungary
Lengyel, Imre; Lukovics, Miklós; Imreh, Szabolcs - European Regional Science Association - 2014
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project is an integral part of a certain generation of planned and currently constructed research facilities that are held together by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). The ELI is the world's first establishment that will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132054
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New firm formation and its effect on employment growth in declining regions
Delfmann, Heike; Koster, Sierdjan - European Regional Science Association - 2014
New firm formation is often highly prioritized by local governments, particularly for regions that are declining. Entrepreneurship can play an important role in keeping declining regions vital through job creation. Yet, the way in which new firm formation exerts its influence on employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075819
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Does Connectivity Impact Innovation Performance in Rural Regions?
Wassmann, Pia; Schiller, Daniel; Thomsen, Stephan - European Regional Science Association - 2014
There is a broad consensus in the literature in that R&D is a precondition for innovation and in turn, for economic growth. On the regional level, this implies that regions with a high stock of R&D should reveal better results when it comes to economic performance. This presumption has lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075916
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Municipal sizes and municipal restructuring in Japan
Nakagawa, Kuninori - European Regional Science Association - 2014
-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of a certain size. JapanÂfs local governance policy allocates tax … revenues to municipalities based on the financial shortages of each municipality, which is designed to ensure financial … equality among municipalities so that the central government can evenly maintain public services, especially in rural areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075934
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Starting a rural business in an ageing society, a UK ? NL case study
Delfmann, Heike - European Regional Science Association - 2014
People have various motivations for becoming an entrepreneur. A common assumption is that entrepreneurs in deprived or remote regions are more likely to be motivated by necessity, as employment opportunities are limited and people have little to lose in starting their own business. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076047
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MEGACITIES AND COUNTRIES: URBANIZATION AND REAL CONVERGENCE
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - European Regional Science Association - 2014
ABSTRACT. A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076064