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Relationships between Social Capital and regional development in Europe : a close examination
Rizzi, Paolo; Pianta, Roberta - 2011
exactly definition yet. Some proofs at national and regional levels in Europe show interactions between the Social Capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541634
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A new regional balance : regional specialization and growth : an analysis of spatial divergence in Northern Europe
Cornett, Andreas P. - 2015 - Extended abstract
Changing pattern of global specialization and trade has affected the regional economic landscape in Europe … main focus in this paper is on the Northern part of Europe to avoid the direct economic impacts of the European debt crisis … explanations and well as to provide empirical evidence based on data from Northern Europe. Who are the winners or losers in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481779
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The attractiveness of the European South as described by a cusp and a butterfly catastrophe model
Angelis, Vasilis A.; Angelis-Dimakis, Athanasios; … - 2013
Over the past years a large number of regional growth theories have been developed and a number of models have been built in an effort to describe, explain and eventually predict regional development trends. However, until a few years ago, the large majority of those models assumed the existence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543475
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The role of environment in a region's sustainable development as described by a butterfly catastrophe model
Angelis, Vasilis A.; Angelis-Dimakis, Athanasios; … - 2012
The territorial organisation of economies and societies is undergoing a dramatic change. Globalisation, technological innovation, migration and population ageing make it increasingly difficult to predict the future of regions. Economic change tests the ability of all regions to compete and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506381
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Assessing the alternative paths for a region's sustainable development
Kondakis, Marios; Dimaki, Katerina; Angelis, Vasilis A. - 2010
Greece is a country with noticeable regional disparities. Those disparities are due to a number of reasons, historic, socioeconomic, structural and geographic and create a series of adverse consequences, such as over congestion and environmental degradation in big urban areas on one hand,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574398
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Knowledge, innovation and economic growth : spatial heterogeneity in Europe
Capello, Roberta; Lenzi, Camilla - 2012
In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521603
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Globalization and endogenous regional growth
Capello, Roberta; Fratesi, Ugo - 2010
Europe but also by groups, by considering separately regions with specialization in the most performing sectors and an high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167811
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Building sustainability through greater happiness
Bartolini, Stefano - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 25 (2014) 4, pp. 587-602
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483115
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Migration as opportunity for rural regions : European Regional Science Association (ERSA), 52nd European Congress, Tuesday 21st - Saturday 25th August 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia. :...
Strahl, Wibke; Machold, Ingrid; Dax, Thomas - 2012
In spite of an unbroken interest of migrants for metropolitan areas and cities, the immigration of foreign people into rural, and as well peripheral, regions of Austria increasingly receives attention over recent years. Actually, 21% of the population of foreign origin live in municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517780
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Foreign Direct Investment and growth : the role of territorial capital
Casi, Laura; Resmini, Laura - 2012 - This version: June 2012, first draft
In the last years, and particularly since the publication of the famous Barca Report (Barca, 2009), the European Union (EU) is starting to acknowledge the importance of spatially targeted regional policies and to understand how crucial a territorial approach can be in order to achieve desirable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515025