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Regional competitiveness, economic growth and stages of development

Huggins, Robert; Izushi, Hiro; Prokop, Daniel; … - In: Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u … 32 (2014) 2, pp. 255-283

This paper positions the concept of regional competitiveness within theories concerning regional economic growth and stages of economic development. It examines the sources of regional competitiveness encompassing an analysis based on the particular stage of economic development that the nations...

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The Economic Impact of Cardiff University : Innovation, Learning and Job Generation

Huggins, Robert - 2015

local and regional economic development. The first concerns its direct and indirect impact as an economic force in its own … rights in the locality and the wider city-region of South East Wales. Through the application of impact analysis it shown … over 3,000 jobs. The second aspect of the paper concerns the knowledge impact of the University and its contribution to the …

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Regional Competitive Specialization. Development Agency Sector Initiatives in Wales

Huggins, Robert - 2010

This paper provides evidence of the movement towards a sector-based approach to regional development by the Welsh Development Agency, its effects on economic competitiveness and its role as a focal point for stimulating the development of specialized industrial clusters. The paper concentrates...

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Reviewing Conservative Government Local Economic Development Policy from the Perspective of Training and Enterprise Councils : Strategy, Funding and Network Approaches

Huggins, Robert - 2010

The objective of this paper is to review, from a TEC perspective, the effect of changing Conservative Government policies in the 1990s, such as the introduction of Business Links, on local economic development strategies. The paper focuses on the effects of the Government's attempt to vest in...

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The Success and Failure of Policy-Implanted Inter-Firm Network Initiatives : Motivations, Processes and Structure

Huggins, Robert - 2010

This paper examines the processes and causes of inter-firm network success and failure, defined in terms of the ability of networks to become a sustained and valued form of business activity for their members. The paper examines four different case study network initiatives: (1) a failed...

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The Skills Economy and its Development : Examples and Lessons from a Rural Region

Huggins, Robert - 2010

This paper is a study of the skills economy of the rural region of Mid Wales, and the subsequent policy responses that could be activated to stimulate job creation and upgrading through skills development and training. A skills economy approach incorporates the means by which the expectations of...

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Embedding Inward Investment Through Workforce Development : Experiences in Wales

Huggins, Robert - 2010

The author examines the role of workforce development - in the form of skills upgrading and training - in integrating and embedding foreign direct investment (FDI) in the economy of Wales. He finds that by far the most important deciding factor in choosing Wales as an investment location is the...

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Regional competitive intelligence : benchmarking and policy-making

Huggins, Robert - In: Regional studies 44 (2010) 5, pp. 639-658

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The Digital Divide and ICT Learning in Rural Communities : Examples of Good Practice Service Delivery

Huggins, Robert; Izushi, Hiro - 2010

This article aims to gain a greater understanding of relevant and successful methods of stimulating an ICT culture and skills development in rural areas. The paper distils good practice activities, utilizing criteria derived from a review of the rural dimensions of ICT learning, from a range of...

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A Tale of Two Clusters : High Technology Industries in Cambridge

Cooke, Philip; Huggins, Robert - 2014

This paper offers a textured case analysis of biotechnology and ICT clusters in Cambridge (UK). Arguing that this is the superior method by which an understanding of clustering processes may be gained, until econometric methods move beyond their infancy in analysing socio-economic interaction,...

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