Russian President Vladimir Putin placed an emphasis on priority development of the resource regions of Eastern Siberia: this is related to the large-scale development of natural resources and to the development of modern manufacturing industries. In this context, it is necessary to solve the...

Agglomerationen technologieintensiver Aktivitäten prägen nicht nur hochentwickelte Industriestaaten, sondern wachsen auch in Newly Industrialized Countries. Doch stellt sich angesichts ihrer anderen Bedingungen der technologiebasierten Industrialisierung die Frage: Inwieweit können sie...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Interregional Migration: Reexamination of Population Redistribution in Russia at the late Soviet Period (Kazuhiro Kumo) -- Chapter 3. Clustering of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Russia Based on the Assessment of Knowledge Spillovers Localization (Tatyana...

This paper examines regional effects of the InnoRegio program, which was conducted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional...