The paper investigates the potentials of ICT in Russia for tackling the challenges of huge territory, strong regional disparities, segmentation of economic space and over-centralisation by Moscow. The Internet currently imposes a definite regional discrimination in Russia based on complex...

In a rapidly changing global context, this article sets out to examine certain tendencies which bring themes of international trade and economic geography of territories into close relation. It seems increasingly difficult to explain strategies of firms without reference to the logic, which...

This paper evaluates the Bulgarian positioning in the European knowledge-based economy. The analysis is mainly based on the Knowledge Assessment Methodology of the World Bank (2005). After an analytical framework, the analysis reveals an alarming situation for Bulgaria resulting from several...

Ce papier évalue la situation bulgare dans l' économie fondée sur la connaissance en Europe. Il s'appuie sur la méthodologie de la banque mondiale (2005). Après avoir présenté le cadre analytique, l' analyse révèle que la Bulgarie se trouve dans une situation très défavorable,...

This paper evaluates the micro-economic aspects in development of business services in Bulgaria. The analysis is largely based on questionnaires that deal with the demand and the supply side of these services on the Bulgarian market, but also uses western theoretical and empirical approaches and...

This paper offers an analysis of the service sectors - business services in particular - within the economies of France and Bulgaria, the emphasis being on structural change. Based on theoretical and empirical studies as well as on existing statistical data, the similarities and differences in...