The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...

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 --...

The intrinsic complexity of the sustainability concept challenges research towards more sophisticated ways to model and assess the dimensions underlying it. However, currently adopted modelling techniques and indicators frameworks are not able to give an integrated assessment through the...