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As a departing point, the paper presents the historical genesis of the concept of industrial district focusing on the scientific views of the pioneer of this field, Alfred Marshall. The concept has its origins in the observation of the current industrial reality, mainly of the British one. The...
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The emphasis today has taken the phenomenon of socioeconomicdevelopment planning, through implementation of measures to promote employment,promotion of business and/or revitalization of local resources, requires areference model with goals, a structure and operational means well defined. Onthis...
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The eighties saw the emergence of a new conception of economic and social development in Spain. The locally appeared as a new tool for action and improvement over the territory. More than twenty years of operating the same, this note reflects on the evolution and current configuration of this...
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The objective of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of regional incentive policy applied in Spain during the period 1988-2001 at a municipal scale. Specifically, the relation between economic growth and the amount of incentives received by each Spanish municipality is analysed, taking...
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The article offers some reflections on the important changes that local development has experienced along the last decades. In particular, it emphasizes the strong and increasing presence of uncertainties and the complex character of the actual urban and territorial problems. All this must be...
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The largest regional disparities in CEE countries are between capital and non-capital city regions. MNCs invest in these regions for various reasons, contributing to regional development exogenously. In this paper we analyse location decisions of FDI investments in the period 2003-2010. We find...
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The Woodlands (Texas) is one of the best examples of success in a public-private partnership between the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and a private firm. Developed as a New Town by Mitchell Energy & Development Corporation, The Woodlands has flourished and created a...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain how eventual pressures from national lobbies may lead governments to shift from an optimal into a non-optimal innovation policy. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical model is developed in order to examine and explain the growth and...
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The main purpose of this paper is to approach the legal problems of mass privatisation in Poland. The authors present … the structure of national investment funds which intend to be the experimental financial intermediaries in Poland. Their …
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citizens residing in Poland to participate in the distribution of the value of that property, to provide favourable conditions …
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