The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related...

Endogenous growth theory has significantly impacted most of the developing and developed countries, shifting priorities of industrial policies towards innovation. In line with this trend, the European Union significantly increased its budgetary allocation for R&D. However, statistical data show...

The Economics of Monetary Union: the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas (OCAs) -- The Economic Rationale of Fiscal Rules in OCAs: The SGP and the EDP -- To Cope with Asymmetric Shocks in EMU: The Role of Labour Market Flexibility -- The Concept of Labour Market Flexicurity in the Eurozone -- The...

This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies. Successful experiences in Scandanavia and southern European countries are examined, with insightful policy lessons extracted...

This book gathers a diverse range of novel research on modeling innovation policies for sustainable economic development, based on a selection of papers from a conference on modeling innovation systems and technologies (MIST). It aims at encouraging interdisciplinary and comparative approaches,...

Chapter 1 Benefits of Implementing a System of Quality Management in Spanish Thalassotherapy Centres -- Chapter 2 Quality Certifications as a Hotel Selection Criterion -- Chapter 3 "Q for Tourist Quality" in the Spanish Tourist Sector -- Chapter 4 The ISO 9001 Standard in the Spanish...