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the period 2004-2006 opened a huge national-wide clustering movement. Several tens of cluster initiatives have been … reviews and summarizes developments of cluster policies in the Czech Republic at both national and regional levels and …
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research aims to propose a conceptual model to analyze how a tourism cluster encourages its regional competitiveness. …
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has been not known in the Czech Republic yet. The paper aims to introduce the industry cluster concept and definition, the … ways of cluster identification, the factors affecting cluster development and their contribution to regional development … policies. The example of preliminary industry cluster analysis in Moravia Silesia region in the Czech Republic is presented in …
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During the past two decades, the “Washington Consensus” has been the dominant recipe for unleashing economic growth in developing countries. In view of the strong criticism mounted against it, it seems to have lost prominence recently. The success of the East Asian newly industrialized...
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The paper aims to show some of the complex relationships between institutions and industrial policies. Institutions are important factors determining the slow pace of change of the societies, their economies, States and private sectors, therefore presenting important consequences for the design...
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This paper presents and discusses two case studies in the Portuguese motor vehicle industry – Salvador Caetano’s Ovar Industrial Division (SCOID), a ‘Brownfield site’ with minority Toyota ownership; and Autoeuropa, a ‘Greenfield site’ wholly owned by Volkswagen. Basically, it...
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The main assumption of the paper is that the differentials of competitiveness related to ICT are nowadays less dependant on the level of the investments than on the level of their use. ICT are generally studied within the framework of developed economies and less of their impact on developing...
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The objective of this study is twofold: First, (a) it evaluates the outcomes and outputs of technical assistance to SEZs in Laos; (b) it assesses the relevance of those results to the objectives of sustainable economic growth and job creation; and (c) it identifies any shortcomings that still...
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Dutch disease is a condition whereby a booming export sector along with a concomitant strengthening of the non-tradable sector cause a deterioration in the rest of the tradable sector. Regression analysis finds that Dutch disease due to international remittances appears to afflict the developing...
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Cluster policy has arrived at the mainstream of economic policy since the early 1990. In many developing countries … technological level. This makes innovation-related methods of cluster promotion feasible in these countries, while at the same time … clusters in rural regions require more efficiency-oriented approaches. This calls for a comprehensive strategy of cluster …
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