The objective of this paper is to understand and measure the contribution of various sectors towards the divergence of regional output in India in the era of liberalization. We have first described a framework that enables us to decompose the rate of divergence into the contribution made by...

Estonia and Finland have centuries of collaboration, mainly between the capital areas of Tallinn and Helsinki that currently account for 2 million inhabitants and USD 76 billion in economic output. The entry of Estonia into the European Union and, since the mid-2000s, a two-hour ferry trip, have...

The Oresund is the most well-known example of European cross-border collaboration, building on the metropolitan area around Copenhagen and, across the sound, southern Sweden with the cities of Malmö, Lund and Helsingborg. Cross-border integration intensified following the opening of a...

Hedmark County (Norway) and Dalarna County (Sweden) are both rural, with the border being remote from regional centres. The total population of less than half a million inhabitants spans across almost 58 800 km², with an economic output of USD 22 billion. Efforts to support collaboration at the...

New knowledge generated by an economic agent in a region will tend over time to flow to other economic agents in the same region but also to economic agents in other regions. It is quite common in the literature to use the concept of knowledge spillovers for such knowledge flows, irrespective of...

Using a model similar to the one developed by GLAESER et al. (1992) and HENDERSON et al. (1995), this article aims to explain the growth of regions in Europe by using a set of variables allowing to take into account the industrial structure, the economies of agglomeration and the economic...

This paper is based on key-concepts of austrian economics (expectations, knowledge, institutions), and brings a complementary view in the theory of territory. Particularly, it will show that territories, through individual actions which are «located» within them, are private or...

The paper deals with the trajectory of a big agglomeration of heavy industries (refinery, chemical industry, steel industry) located in the south of France. It points out 1. how this industrial agglomeration on one hand and the area in which it is located on the other hand have been building and...

Through the Taiwanese experience of the Hsinchu Science Based Industrial Park, this article aims at answering to the question : can a growth pole can become an industrial district ? Created by the government, technopoles are not supposed to become socio-economic territories regulated by values...

2002 is a key year for sustainable tourism because of its international recognition at Johannesburg Summit. This one is due to tourism actors? mobilisation. However, multiple initiatory make sustainable tourism difficult to understand, mainly about production offered. When one analyse both...