This paper provides evidence of how national and linguistic borders affect the structure of policy networks. Our analysis of the Basel metropolitan region located across Switzerland, France and Germany considers the case of cross-border public transportation. Using a social network approach...

Der hier dokumentierte Workshop hatte sich zum Ziel gesetzt, einige Fälle von Zusammenarbeit auf regionaler Ebene und auf Unternehmensebene zwischen EU-Europa und den Beitrittsländern darzustellen und zu diskutieren. Dem Workshop liegt die Annahme zugrunde, dass innovationsorientierte...

Long seen as artificial barriers inherited from decolonisation, West African borders now lie at the heart of policies designed to encourage regional trade and combat political instability. This rediscovery of the peripheries of the nation state has fostered a proliferation of institutional...

Tourism doesn't depend on a specific resource and enable the integration of local populations and economies, generating benefits that have a stronger effect on regional development. Literature main stream identifies tourism as one of the activities with high impact on the development and for...