This article describes a study of local development policies and programs instituted by Swedish municipalities with various spatial, demographic and economic characteristics and their effects on population and employment growth. Based on a web survey to municipal managers in all Swedish...

This paper contains one of the first empirical attempts to investigate the influence of local Entrepreneurial Social Capital on startup propensity. We use a unique database including not only total startups, but data on startups divided in six branches to study the impact of Entrepreneurial...

W<sc>estlund</sc> H., L<sc>arsson</sc> J. P. and O<sc>lsson</sc> A. R. Start-ups and local entrepreneurial social capital in the municipalities of Sweden, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper contains one of the first empirical attempts to investigate the influence of local entrepreneurial social capital (ESC) on start-up...

Policies aiming at promoting entrepreneurship are in general formed on national levels, without any consideration of differences between urban and rural areas. Usually, cities are provided with better and more modern infrastructure; cities have better supply of physical, financial and human...

In the current knowledge economy, the most important production factor, human knowledge, is much more mobile than the dominating production factors of previous periods. This means that theories of spatial development, formulated during the manufacturing-industrial era, might not be wholly...

In the last nineteen years we have witnessed an explosion of research on social capital in almost all the social sciences. The question addressed by this paper is the following one: what has been achieved during these years? The first part of the discussion is devoted to a review of the most...

Against the background of global urban knowledge economy, this paper discusses some of the challenges that sustainable urban life is facing in the global knowledge economy of the 21st century. The paper makes an overview of the fundamental change in urban-rural relations, urban and rural...