Universities’ role in the research system has undergone a significant change in recent years. Stand-alone strategies are continuously replaced by the pooling of resources and collaborations for knowledge. This is due to a rising complexity of scientific problems in conjunction with scarce...

The paper at hand introduces socio-economic input-output-tables which set a priority on the peoples’ activity patterns from a macroeconomic perspective and allow for an integrated analysis in time, monetary and spatial dimension. In order to cover the whole set of activities, the tables do not...

The paper at hand compares the relative importance of modern transport infrastructure for the regional development with the relevance of other region specific factors such as telecommunication networks, educational attainments, centrality and the potential for natural and technological hazards....