For two decades now the cluster and network concept has been associated with economic growth and an upgrade of the local economic structure by many regional political actors. At the same time, although this concept is an extremely popular instrument of regional structural development among...

Cooke P., Clifton N. and Oleaga M. (2005) Social capital, firm embeddedness and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 1065-1077. This paper presents the results of a research project examining the effects of social capital on the performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in...

Taymaz E. and Kilicaslan Y. (2005) Determinants of subcontracting and regional development: an empirical study on Turkish textile and engineering industries, Regional Studies 39 , 633-645. Recent studies on small- and medium-sized establishments emphasize the importance of networking and...

Support of agriculture is justified, among others, by its contribution to rural economic development. Nevertheless, the relation between agricultural and general economic development may be ambiguous. On the one side, agriculture may affect other sectors positively via multiplier and income...

В статье рассматриваются предпосылки формирования кластера рыбной отрасли Магаданской области. В частности, автором анализируются условия формирования и...

Как отмечается большинством экспертов в последние десять лет в России наблюдается снижение уровня потребления морепродукции, что является одним из факторов...

The purpose of this work is to explore the dynamics of migration processes and to analyze constant and labour migration dynamics in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) within 1993–2008. It is shown in the paper that from 1993 to 2002 the reason of migration processes dynamics are the...