Urban development thrives from technology inflows, which refers to the transfer of high-value technology from various cities to local recipients. The asymmetry of technical information-rooted in the tacit knowledge inherent in technology-mandates that technology transfer is heavily dependent on...

Faster technological progress has long been considered a key potential benefit of agglomeration. Physical proximity to others may help inventors adopt new ideas in their work by increasing awareness about which new ideas exist and by enhancing understanding of the properties and usefulness of...

Selsky and Memon (1997) commented that ports are part of a zone where there is considerable pressure from diverse stakeholders due to technological, economic, political and environmental forces from stakeholders as well as from the wider context management of urban ports. They referred to three...

From a 25 development projects evaluation realised for European Union, lessons have been drawn from Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) contribution on rural development. One of the main question was the role of ICT in rural dynamics, and it has seemed important to precise the...

This paper explores the effects of intra-regional agglomeration and interregional networking on the productivity of R&D across EU regions. The paper is based on the spatial econometric modelling framework presented in Varga (2000), and further develops a methodology for estimating the dynamic...

The Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) and the clusters have become especially important in the economic development of policies and literature. After showing the RIS conceptual framework and the differences with the cluster framework, the paper presents the real difficulties for the RIS analysis...

As public policies seek to advance deployment of enhanced broadband infrastructure as a means of acquiring economic advantage, the issue has arisen of the extent that additional economic performance accrues from increases in headline bandwidth speed in locations that are physically remote from...

In order to answer the pertinent question why developing countries are showing penchant for foreign capital over the last two decades in spite of its detrimental effects as revealed from the conventional two-sector mobile capital version of Harris–Todaro (HT) model in the presence of...

This paper presents state-of-the-art conceptual and empirical output of recent research work on the identification of the factors that determine the innovativeness and competitiveness of SMEs in Europe and East Asian countries. In the context of globalisation, new technology and learning-based...