The diversification of economic activities in rural areas is a topical issue and can be a fundamental strategy for the development of the Romanian rural area, because it can produce a beneficial effect from an economic point of view, by increasing the income of the rural population.The Romanian...

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions characterized by a solid economic performance despite a low-technology industrial structure. Particular emphasis is placed on the spatial and functional dimension of cooperation. Generic...

The real convergence process within the European Union at regional level is the main goal of the cohesion policy. Less developed regions belong mainly to Central and East European countries and aim at catching-up with other EU regions. According to Eurostat, Romania has 28 predominantly rural...

For the past 15 years, mostly in the context of raising the financing volume for the rural environment, the number of rural boarding houses has been expanding exponentially. This increase has failed yet to be correlated with efficient marketing solutions, the development itself happened rather...

Although rural entrepreneurship is an emergent field of study and has emerged as one of the most noticeable ways to promote rural development, the few studies concerning the theme are still incipient. Moreover, a lot of studies focus on farmers and rural entrepreneurs as a whole and little...

The purpose of this scientific approach consists in analyzing the entrepreneurial initiatives from rural areas of Western Moldova, after Romania joined the European Union in the context in which the rural entrepreneurship has become in recent decades, the main source of income for an important...

Rural development was and continues to be considered an essential imperative, being one of the reasons for which the concept of sustainable development and diversification in the rural space has registered a high emergence frequency and debates in the specialty literature. The sustainable and...

Many cross-country studies acknowledge the indispensable role of institutions in promoting economic growth and in sustaining economic development. So, their emphases have shifted to determine the most influential institution(s) in order to be specific. While these papers are widespread in the...

The impact of higher education institutions on the regional economy is now more important the ever, due not only to their role as providers of education and research, but also to their linkages to the economic, social and cultural surroundings. The paper explores the relationship between the...