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Human capital, innovation and the productive ageing: growth and senior aged health in the regional community through engaged higher education
Garlick, Steve; Soar, Jeffrey - 2007
[Abstract]: This paper examines how low relative economic growth and high service and infrastructure costs in non-metropolitan regions that are increasingly attractive to lifestyle-seeking seniors, can be offset by focussing more positively on the human capital dimension of this cohort through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009479935
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Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices: Mosquito-borne Disease Transmission in Southwest Virginia
Butterworth, Melinda - 2009
Virginiaâs temperate climate is suitable for several mosquito species capable of transmitting pathogens to humans. In southwest Virginia, La Crosse encephalitis and West Nile fever are most prominent. The objective of this research, which uses the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434019
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1996-2004 Trends in the Single-Family Housing Market: Spatial Analysis of the Residential Sector
Anderson, Dave M.; Elliott, Douglas B. - 2008
share of housing activity. • The proportion of home buyers having three times the median family income for their geography … rate environment and concurrent deregulation of the finance industry resulted unprecedented merger and acquisition activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435444
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National Security Technology Incubation Strategic Plan
2008
This strategic plan contains information on the vision, mission, business and technology environment, goals, objectives … developing incubator plans (strategic, business, action, and operations), creating an incubator environment, creating a support … does. For a company to succeed, it must have sustainable competitive advantages in seven key areas: geography, products and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437191
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Production linkages, agglomeration, and spatial organization of production: A monopolistic competition approach
Hamaguchi, Nobuaki - 1995
Input users and producers seek to increase their profitability by locating near each other. This self-reinforcing relationship between input producers and users can be views as a basic agglomeration force to enable the modeling of agglomeration economies based on a standard monopolistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438898
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Regional heterogeneity and the pattern of international trade
Nishikimi, Koji - 1999
Traditional theory of international trade has been developed on the assumption of homogeneous country in which identical consumers and production factors are all uniformly distributed. In the real world, however, most countries are composed of heterogeneous regions, and in accordance the above...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438950
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Towards developing a hybrid method for input-output table compilation and identifying a fundamental economic structure
van der Westhuizen, Jacobus Marthinus - 1992
This dissertation focuses on two topics that are important to regional economists. The first is the development of a hybrid method for input-output table compilation which distinguishes between economic relationships that need to be surveyed and those that can be obtained by other means. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439097
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Global finance and the German model: German corporations, market incentives, and the management of employer-sponsored pension institutions
Clark, Gordon L.; Mansfield, Daniel; Tickell, Adam - 2002
Where there was a settled political geography of state power and responsibilities, the remarkable growth of global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441380
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Unethical secrets, lies and legal retaliation in the context of corporate restructuring in the United States
Clark, Gordon - 1990
Corporate restructuring is normally analyzed with reference to economic imperatives and the inherited geographical structure of production. The economic landscape is assumed to be the consequence of private decisions made in response to these structural factors. If understanding and empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441381
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London in the European financial services industry: locational advantage and product complementarities
Clark, Gordon L. - 2002
information and communication technology who proclaim the end of geography. However, my argument sits uncomfortably with those who … services industry: locational advantage and product complementarities', Journal of Economic Geography, 2(4), 433 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441382