The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. This paper aims to shed some light on the relation between entrepreneurship and growth by arguing that entrepreneurial activity relates to growth via reallocation...

Regional, structural change is currently among the greatest challenges facing the public sector in many EU countries at the moment. In countries like Finland, where the public sectors have a large role in providing educational, health and social services, structural change rapidly becomes a...

This study investigates regional development and internal migration dynamics within the context of modern structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. We develop a regionalized Computable General Equilibrium model that incorporates regionalized production, endogenous interregional migration,...

Seit der "Öffnung des Ostens" befindet sich das Regionalsystem Europas im Umbruch. Die Autoren untersuchen diesen Prozeß exemplarisch für die deutsch-polnische Grenzregion. In diesem Buch geht es um die konkreten Voraussetzungen und Hindernisse einer regionalökonomischen Regeneration. Auf...

The phenomenon of non-random spatial concentrations of firms in one or few related sectors (clusters) is intensively debated in economic theory and policy. The euphoria about successful clusters however neglects that historically, many thriving clusters did deteriorate into old industrial areas....