The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. This paper aims to shed some light on the relation between entrepreneurship and growth by arguing that entrepreneurial activity relates to growth via reallocation...

In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978-2008. In the aggregate, the German economy is characterized by a secular decline of the manufacturing sector and a rise of the modern service economy. This trend of structural...

Seit der "Öffnung des Ostens" befindet sich das Regionalsystem Europas im Umbruch. Die Autoren untersuchen diesen Prozeß exemplarisch für die deutsch-polnische Grenzregion. In diesem Buch geht es um die konkreten Voraussetzungen und Hindernisse einer regionalökonomischen Regeneration. Auf...