This paper focuses on the climate change challenge faced by Central & Eastern European countries both those inside the European Union and those outside it. They have enormous energy intensity and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly from energy production, which is oil, and worse,...

Geographical proximity exerts a substantial influence on structural evolution, developmental trajectory, and pace of sociotechnical system growth. This study explores this aspect within the context of the development of forest biomass-based biofuel technology, employing a Technological...

In this paper we try to identify manufacturing and service clusters in Spain, using data from Mercantile Registers of 2006. The proposed methodology partially follows contributions of Duranton and Overman (2005), Brenner (2003 and 2004) and Ellison and Glaser (1997), but departing from them we...

Chapter 1.Regional Innovation and Evolution -- Chapter 2.Typifying Facts of Regional Innovation in China -- Chapter 3.Theoretical Explanation of the Innovation Spatial Distribution -- Chapter 4.Design of Regional Innovation Process Matrix -- Chapter 5.Application: Regional Innovation Model --...