changing regional characteristics and invariant self-organized response mechanisms. It is supported by empirical examples of … the invariant character of regional development and innovation phenomena, such as long-term population growth, export …

-ups on subsequent employment growth. We extend previous analyses by examining the influence of regional start-ups in a sector … on regional employment growth in the same sector and on other sectors. We find differences between different types of … start-ups. Knowledge-intensive start-ups seem to have larger effects on the regional economy. In particular, start-ups in …

During the last decades regional income divergence seems to have reappeared in both developed and developing countries …. In Taiwan – a renowned case of growth with equity – regional per capita income was converging until the early 1990s after … of a regional bonus and discuss reasons behind the re-opening of the North–South income divide in Taiwan. Our analysis …

The relationship between start-up rates and regional economic development has been studied rather extensively in recent … show that there is a regional dimension in persistence. …

is used to predict export behavior by firms in different regional milieus, and these predictions are compared with … depends on regional characteristics. …

-based hierarchy of municipalities, we relate growth to intra municipal, intra regional and inter regional accessibility. We explore …

firms in different regional milieus. In one model we examine the emergence of new export firms, and in the second model we …