Universities can significantly contribute to consolidating the coherence of regional innovation systems, to promoting and stimulating cooperation networks and supporting the accumulation of both codified and tacit knowledge. These are vital attributes for regional economic performance under...

Universities are crucial organizations in the knowledge society. As such, a new social contract between academia and society is being developed, inducing significant dynamics of change in academia. Change is configured by the integration of economic development in the mission realm of...

This paper synthesises some of the (New) Public Expenditures Theories. It also focuses on the Fiscal Adjustments theme. We analysed public expenditures evolution in a sample composed by seventeen OCDE countries observed between 1870 and 1990. Our conclusion recognizes the heterogeneity of the...

In an attempt to overcome the impact of the economic crisis that emerged in 2007--2008, the triple helix model (THM) is increasingly being used as an inspiration source for local development policy, even though many localities and regions have not been able to create and sustain the innovation...

Spatial heterogeneity, spatial dependence and spatial scale constitute key features of spatial analysis of housing markets. However, the common practice of modelling spatial dependence as being generated by spatial interactions through a known spatial weights matrix is often not satisfactory....

This theoretical paper examines the contributions of the neo-classical approach to the explanation of deep and persistent geographical inequalities in economic development. Central insights of each approach are combined in a model of regional economic inequality, here defined as differences in...

This article is about the influence of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) and its follow-up processes in the Portuguese spatial planning system. The Portuguese planning tradition is based on a clear separation between urban planning and regional development policy as well as on...

This Policy Brief has the twin aims of showing that Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (S3), despite their sectoral origins, provide a favourable and supportive framework for innovation in rural areas and, on the other hand, that there is a wide range of innovation...

Spatial heterogeneity, spatial dependence and spatial scale constitute key features of spatial analysis of housing markets. However, the common practice of modelling spatial dependence as being generated by spatial interactions through a known spatial weights matrix is often not satisfactory....