In the European Union and its neighborhood, regional development has increasingly come to focus on agglomerations during the last three decades. Notably, during the 1990s and early 2000s, clustering was the major policy focus in regional development. Currently, the concept of smart...

Ländliche Regionen nehmen in Deutschland historisch eine wichtige Rolle für die Sicherung von Wohlstand und Wachstum ein. Etliche Hidden Champions des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes sind dort beheimatet, die mit ihrer Innovationskraft und Produktionsexzellenz das Geschäftsmodell Deutschland...

Südniedersachsen steht regionalökonomisch vor großen Herausforderungen. Um diesen zu begegnen, hat es eine strategiegeleitete Entwicklung hin zu einer stärker koordinierten Regional- und Innovationsförderung umgesetzt. Die Analyse dieses Prozesses leitet Thesen für innovations- und...

Die Corona-Pandemie hat die Wirtschaft in den letzten zwei Jahren vor große Herausforderungen gestellt. Personennahe Dienstleistungen waren ebenso betroffen wie die Industrie. Das IW-Regionalranking 2022 zeigt die regionalen Auswirkungen der CoronaPandemie hinsichtlich des Wohlstands, der...

This article focuses on the role of Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) in regional development in three Austrian regions that represent different types of regional economies. TTOs can be defined as “bridging institutions” between academia and business. The value added by this approach...

The article examines the capacity of four medium-sized cities in Southern Europe, concerning the current situation of their assets (agglomeration economies, urban infrastructures, factors of labor and cost, etc.), the degree of development policies implementation and effectiveness by local...

The aim of this article is to discuss the essence and purposefulness of such strategy on the example of the "Regional Innovation Strategy for Lower Silesia Voivodship (region) for the years 2011-2020" and to analyze the changes of the selected indicators that characterize the level of innovation...

The term "competitiveness" has been used in conceptually distinct ways at the firm, regional and national levels. After primarily reviewing existing concepts at the national level, we introduce a new definition of regional competitiveness adapting definitions used in the academic literature....

Lagging regions differ in their characteristics, implying a need for tailor-made policy measures to improve the economic situation in these regions. However, while there are differences between these regions, certain "archetypes" of regions might exist that share the same obstacles to...