Faster technological progress has long been considered a key potential benefit of agglomeration. Physical proximity to others may help inventors adopt new ideas in their work by increasing awareness about which new ideas exist and by enhancing understanding of the properties and usefulness of...

Selsky and Memon (1997) commented that ports are part of a zone where there is considerable pressure from diverse stakeholders due to technological, economic, political and environmental forces from stakeholders as well as from the wider context management of urban ports. They referred to three...

From a 25 development projects evaluation realised for European Union, lessons have been drawn from Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) contribution on rural development. One of the main question was the role of ICT in rural dynamics, and it has seemed important to precise the...

The Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) and the clusters have become especially important in the economic development of policies and literature. After showing the RIS conceptual framework and the differences with the cluster framework, the paper presents the real difficulties for the RIS analysis...

In order to answer the pertinent question why developing countries are showing penchant for foreign capital over the last two decades in spite of its detrimental effects as revealed from the conventional two-sector mobile capital version of Harris–Todaro (HT) model in the presence of...

This paper presents state-of-the-art conceptual and empirical output of recent research work on the identification of the factors that determine the innovativeness and competitiveness of SMEs in Europe and East Asian countries. In the context of globalisation, new technology and learning-based...

Theories of economic growth at the regional and national level, have expanded the traditional production function of the Solow model towards a wide function that collects conditioning factors of labour productivity, measured by R & D expenditure, the number of patents, the human capital, the...

This paper aims to assess the changing impact of distance on the development of rural nonfarm sector by exploring the changing allocation of rural labor force between the farm and nonfarm sectors in the Philippines using provincial-level data from 1988 to 2006. The impact of distance of a...

The paper presents some of the main scientific results achieved in the framework of a recently completed NATO Science for Peace and Security research project. The project aimed to harmonize the different seismic hazard maps of Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria and to develop standard maps in...