Policies aiming at promoting entrepreneurship are in general formed on national levels, without any consideration of differences between urban and rural areas. Usually, cities are provided with better and more modern infrastructure; cities have better supply of physical, financial and human...

In the current knowledge economy, the most important production factor, human knowledge, is much more mobile than the dominating production factors of previous periods. This means that theories of spatial development, formulated during the manufacturing-industrial era, might not be wholly...

This paper aims to contribute to the development of a general network theory for the social sciences. This ambition comprises an attempt to a) formulate, and illustrate with historical examples, a general hypothesis about the relation between a contiguity and a network principle for spatial...