В статье обоснована необходимость регулирования регионального инновационного развития на основе оценки экономической эффективности финансового обеспечения...

Walla Walla enjoys the fastest growing wine industry in the State of Washington, if not in the whole U.S. This paper examines the impact of this extraordinary growth on the revenue of regional hotels and restaurants. Employing a dynamic quarterly panel model at the county level we show that the...

The concept of development implies "a gradual evolution towards a higher stage phase, to gain significant scale, increasing evolve",which means, extrapolating from the economy, that development is an open process involving upward trend of economic and social phenomena as a result of action...

The article substantiates the need to regulate the regional innovation development based on evaluation of economic efficiency of financial support given to research institutions and enterprises in regions for making innovation activities. A number of indicators that can determine the efficiency...

Studies of knowledge and innovation as driving forces of regional development and growth offer a myriad of approaches. Here, questions asked, methods used and answers given are manifold. In our overview, we cover recent developments in this research area. Moreover, we explore the question as to...

There is considerable evidence to demonstrate that the industrial localization in developing countries shows high level of spatial concentration, and the industrial decentralization is quite restricted to few isolated regions. The aim of this paper is to analyze the Brazilian case to identify...

The authors construct a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of a Nizhny Novgorod regional economy – a typical large industrialised re-gion of the Russian Federation. The model allows to capture some of the key features of the ‘virtual economy’, such as barter transactions and...

This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind the widely differing economic growth in Russian regions prior to the recent global financial crisis. Using data of regional growth in 1995–2006 for 77 Russian regions, it examines the growth drivers for the...