The objective of this article is to explore the emergence of cognitive cities as the next step in urban development and to provide insights to city planners and administrators on how to create a connected and efficient physical environment that serves its citizens. By examining the key features...

In most industrialized countries, employment has grown predominately in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. This process of job polarization is well documented for a number of countries. We...

China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) policy has attracted global attention. Since 2010, China has constructed over 30 MCF national demonstration bases (MCFNDBs) to optimise local industrial structure and promote local economic development. However, the evaluation of the actual economic effects...

Nach dem Mauerfall setzte in Berlin ein drastischer Abbau von Industriearbeitsplätzen ein, der auch durch einen Beschäftigungsanstieg im Dienstleistungssektor nicht kompensiert werden konnte. In den Folgejahren gelang es der Industrie, ihre Produktivität zu steigern, unter anderem durch...

The object of research in science and technology valleys and technology incubators, which for governments are the best investment of the scientific energies of scientists and innovators. As they are a link between research institutions and the industrial and service sectors, and as they transfer...

Digital transformation is not only a field for the engineering sciences alone. Instead, this issue should be understand in all its facets. This, in particular with regard to human resources and political area.Beside this, the digital transformation has an important geopolitical dimension. China,...

This paper introduces a model of localised competition and technological adoption that produces interesting geographical adoption patterns: Persistent asymmetry, where nobody adopts, Leapfrogging where only followers adopt, Forging ahead where only leaders adopt and Catching up where everybody...

We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...

This article addresses the impact of regulatory policy on levels of infrastructure deployment and derived welfare in the telecommunications sector. The model considers two potentially coexisting and partially competing techniques (the "old" ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - technique)...

A major objective of this study is to analyse the evolutionary patterns of regional linkages and disparities across the EU space, especially those related to rural and peripheral/remote regions. In particular, this report assesses the economy-wide effects, in terms of GDP and employment,...