DE BERNARDY M. (1999) Reactive and proactive local territory: co-operation and community in Grenoble, Reg. Studies 33 , 343-352 . Local again! Despite the pressures of globalization and hypercompetition, local embeddedness and proximity appear to be decisive factors in the competitive advantage...

Dynamism, creativity, involvement are features that are regularly praised by organizations committed to development. Young migrants seem to display many such qualities especially those who return to their home regions. These qualities were shown to be characteristic of return migrants as...

In the Bihor County has been created in the last years the „myth” of a very low unemployment rate (values under the EU average). Trans-border migrations, the existence of an important labor force in the agricultural sector, especially in the case of subsistence agriculture are just a few...

El estudio de caso en economía regional que se presenta se comenzó en el mes de octubre del 2005 como una iniciativa conjunta entre el Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica y la Sede del Atlántico, localizada en Turrialba. El propósito...

В статье проанализировано состояние креативного регионального развития в разрезе индустрий креативной экономики. Интегральная оценка развития креативной...

The paper presents the findings from a survey of Portuguese creative business incubators, as a strategy to promote and support the development of the creative industries at city-regional level. Incubators can create values in the incubation process through its entry and exit procedure and by...

In recent years, the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has evolved into a widely used analytical framework generating the empirical foundation for innovation policy making. Yet, the approaches utilizing this framework remain ambiguous on such key issues as the territorial dimension of...

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...