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Accessibility: a useful analytical and empirical tool in spatial economics – experiences from Sweden

Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Accessibility has for many years been a widely used tool in transportation research. Many definitions have been suggested and researchers have constructed numerous mathematical formulations to measure its value to be able to evaluate the relationships between the nature of the transport systems...

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Urban Regions in Europe – Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy

Gråsjö, Urban; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

Nowadays it is well-established fact that urban regions and large ones in particular are crucial for promoting creativity, innovation and subsequent economic growth in the economy. There-fore, it is important to focus policies in Europe on how to improve the existing conditions of urban regions...

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My Urban Idol 2050 – The City of Gothenburg

Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

I have been asked to write a paper over “my urban idol 2050” to be the foundation for a presentation at a session at the ERSA congress in Bratislava in August 2012. No special instructions were given, so I have chosen to write a kind of scenario for the possible future development in the...

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REGIONAL POLICY AS CHANGE MANAGEMENT - a theoretical discussion with empirical illustrations

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

The paper focuses on challenges and potentials for policy in the presence of fundamental change processes that influence the long-term evolution of regions. The perspective in the paper implies that policy can be viewed as ‘management of change’. We present a conceptual model for...

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Media Clusters and Media Cluster Policies

Karlsson, Charlie; Picard, Robert - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

Large media clusters have emerged in a limited number of large cities, characterizing the geographical concentration of the global media industry. This paper explores the reasons behind the localization patterns of media industries, the effect of the rapid advancement of Information and...

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Regional Economic Development, Social Capital and Governance: A Buchanian Approach

Karlsson, Charlie; Rouchy, Philippe - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

The purpose of this paper is to consider some of the challenges lying ahead of policy makers in the context of regional development. Regional economic development encompasses the economics and other resources that a region can mobilize for its own sustainable development and competitiveness. It...

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RETAIL CITY: Does accessibility to shops explain place attractiveness?

Öner, Özge - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This paper explores the role of retail as an amenity and how it contributes to place attractiveness. In this investigation the impact of accessibility to shops on average house prices is investigated using a fixed effect estimation. The analysis use data for Swedish municipalities through the...

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RETURNS TO LOCATION IN RETAIL: Investigating the relevance of market size and regional hierarchy

Öner, Özge - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

central and peripheral retail markets, as well as across different types of retailing activities. The empirical design … performance, which allows for a comparison across different types of retailing activities, although the sector as a whole is … for four types of retailing activities: food retailing, clothing, household retailing and specialized stores. The results …

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Clusters, Functional Regions and Cluster Policies

Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper gives an overview of research on economic clusters and clustering and is motivated by the growing intellectual and political interest for the subject. Functional regions have the features that agglomeration of economic activities i.e. clusters, benefit from. Functional regions have...

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Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, Governance and Regional Economic Development

Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

In this paper, we discuss three factors of critical importance for regional economic develop-ment, namely entrepreneurship, social capital and governance. We conclude firstly that the relationships between regional entrepreneurship, regional social capital, regional governance and regional...

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