Regional development has been in the centre of interest among both academics but also decision makers in the central and local governments of many European countries. Identifying the key problems that regions face and considering how these findings could be effectively used as a basis for...

The development of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) in recent decades can be interpreted as one of the major factors in a transition from an industrial economy into a knowledge-based one. It is an increasingly common belief that KIBS not only perform innovation activities in the...