Powered by a growing environmental awareness and the perception of ending fossil-based energy sources, wind energy has evolved as a reliable, mature and increasingly price-competitive alternative to fossil and nuclear energy sources. Along with incremental technological progress, the wind...

The rapid rise of China as the largest wind energy market worldwide with several global leaders in turbine manufacturing received much attention from both scholarly and policy-analytical work. However, little attention has been given to the innovation activities of the Chinese wind industry. In...

In recent years urban entrepreneurialism has become a metropolitan strategy to cope with the challenges of an increasingly flexible global economy. Building on a debate about the problematic nature of this strategy we argue that cooperation of cities, or metropolitan cooperation, constitutes a...

It is by now well known that return migration of the highly skilled can have a significant impact on knowledge-based development in the regions to which they return. Whereas previous research has mainly focused on developing and newly industrializing countries, this paper looks at high-skilled...

The architecture of governance structures for renewable energies in Germany is characterized by a duality of economic incentives at the national level and spatial planning influence mainly at the local and regional level. This duality is problematic with respect to resource efficiency and...

Die Energiewende und der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien in Deutschland befinden sich an einem Punkt, an dem neben den unbestreitbaren Erfolgen und künftigen Chancen auch die damit verbundenen Probleme und Konflikte immer deutlicher werden. Daraus ergibt sich die Herausforderung, die...

Die Energiewende und der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien in Deutschland befinden sich an einem Punkt, an dem neben den unbestreitbaren Erfolgen und künftigen Chancen auch die damit verbundenen Probleme und Konflikte immer deutlicher werden. Daraus ergibt sich die Herausforderung, die...

Sunley P., Klagge B., Berndt C. and Martin R. (2005) Venture capital programmes in the UK and Germany: in what sense regional policies?, Regional Studies 39 , 255-273. The paper considers how far and in what ways venture capital policies in the UK and Germany have been constructed as regional...

The issue of ‘equity gaps’ has loomed large in recent discussions of enterprise formation and development, both in the United Kingdom and in Germany. One particularly intriguing, but highly elusive, aspect of this issue is the question of whether equity gaps have a regional dimension: are...