Eine wichtige Aufgabe der steirischen Wirtschaftspolitik besteht darin, den Wirtschaftsstandort Steiermark in seiner Qualität nicht nur abzusichern, sondern kontinuierlich weiter auszubauen, um den Herausforderung der Zukunft mit sinkenden Transportkosten, Freizügigkeit im Waren-, Kapital- und...

Empirical results on the link between growth and diversity in (un)related industries proved to be highly dependent on the specific regional and temporal context. Making use of highly disaggregated employment data at the sub-regional level, we find that higher employment growth in Austria is...

The experiences of 259 regions in 21 European countries with within country GDP per capita and labour productivity growth suggest that variables associated with pro-active, growth oriented strategies are consistently more important predictors of successful regional development than variables...

Given the recent economic problems of southern EU countries that are rooted in lacking competitiveness, this task will summarise existing knowledge on the factors impeding on or facilitating the economic development of peripheral/low income regions in the EU, and discuss policy options to...