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Trends in restructuring NMS regional economies as responses to transformation, crisis and EU membership : a spotlight on Suceava county in Romania : 54th Congress of European Regio...
Ileanu, Bogdan; Goschin, Zizi; Constantin, Daniela-Luminita - 2014 - Draft
The current research has concentrated on the following questions: What are the trends in restructuring Suceava …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490020
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Cultural Authenticity and Regional Development
Kutty, Nandinee K. - 2008
This paper examines the concept of cultural authenticity and explores its application in regional development and planning. It describes why cultural authenticity is important for a city or region. Cultural authenticity provides a competitive advantage to a region for attracting tourists and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219054
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Northern old industrial regions : breaking the path in resource development
Galtseva, Natalya; Pelyasov, Alexander - 2012
main directions of the restructuring of the economy of the old industrial regions are diversification, introduction of … region. And its directions of economic restructuring lie in resource diversification, technological and institutional … innovations, and new economic competencies of the labor force. Efficiency of each direction of regional economic restructuring is …
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Regional trajectories of entrepreneurship : the effect of socialism and transition
Fritsch, Michael; Kristalova, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
We investigate how major historical shocks affect regional trajectories of economic activity. To this end, we conduct a comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an anti-entrepreneurial socialist economy in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224838
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Regional entrepreneurial heritage in a socialist and a post-socialist economy
Wyrwich, Michael - 2010
after the transition towards a market economy. Astonishingly those regions with a high share of traditional manufacturing … industries in 1989 have higher start-up rates in manufacturing even more than 10 years after transition and a vast structural … the "natural experiment" of four decades of socialism and one of the most severe industrial restructuring and decline of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012172843
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articles: Microregional fragmentation in a Swedish county
Pettersson, Örjan - In: Papers in Regional Science 80 (2001) 4, pp. 389-409
This study of the county of Västerbotten in northern Sweden reveals significant differences in socio-economic conditions between populations living in different residential environments. A cluster analysis was performed in order to classify the nearly 500 microregions into a manageable number...
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Analyzing Regional Inequality in Post-Mao China in a GIS Environment
Yu, Danlin; Wei, Yehua Dennis - 2010
Regional inequality in China has attracted considerable scholarly attention, but the use of geographic information system (GIS) techniques for rigorous analysis remains limited. This paper utilizes recent data and GIS and spatial statistical techniques to analyze changin patterns of regional...
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Real Wage Chronologies
Christofides, Louis N. - 2009
We process information in a large number of wage contracts, signed over a period of several decades, to generate the long-run history of the real wage for each bargaining pair. We term these hitherto unexamined histories 'chronologies'. We are able to generate 1574 continuous real wage...
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Spatial Variations in the Hidden Enterprise Culture : Some Lessons from England
Williams, Colin - 2013
Despite the growing recognition that many businesses start-up trading on a partially or wholly off-the-books basis, there has been little investigation of whether the prevalence and character of this hidden enterprise culture varies spatially. The aim of this paper is to start to fill that gap....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079499
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Spin-off as an indicator of regional innovation network development
Grasmik, Konstantin Ivanovich - In: Triple Helix : a journal of … 2 (2015) 10, pp. 1-20
It is not easy to design an appropriate indicator of network collaboration that is relevant and comparable to all regions of the Russian Federation. This is a challenge because the creation of high-tech start-ups requires the cooperation of various and heterogeneous stakeholders: inventor,...
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