<title>Abstract</title> This special issue of <italic>Spatial Economic Analysis</italic>, on ‘Modelling Regional Dynamics’, contains an interesting set of novel contributions put together by guest co-editors Peter Mulder, Peter Nijkamp & Roger Stough, who have also summarized and commented on the papers below. The papers...

<title/> Interest in the effects on businesses that have implemented Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies has been growing but systematically collected evidence of the advantages inherent in these technologies at a micro-level is sparse. This study measures the effects of an ITS...

This paper uses techniques from formal language theory to describe the linear spatial patterns in urban freeway traffic flows in order to understand and analyze “hidden order” in such high volume systems. A method for measuring randomness based on algorithmic entropy is introduced and...

This paper investigates a new emerging phenomenon in the debate of knowledge-based economic growth called “bridging knowledge to commercialization”. The paper considers commercialization of knowledge as a complex and a multi-faceted phenomenon and aims to highlight “the good”, “the...

Disruptions to transportation networks can be very costly. However, managing disruptions and the costs associated with these events, poses some challenges. Transport networks are, in many cases, large and complex. This paper develops a method, based on complex network theory, to analyse...

In regions whose industrial structure is organized around one or more large firm corporations, the best practices of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) depend on where firms are located in the supply chain. This paper studies 351 SMEs in the Antofagasta Region in Chile between 2007 and 2008,...