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The impact of industrial specialisation and diversity on innovation

Greunz, Lydia - In: Brussels Economic Review 46 (2003) 3, pp. 11-36

This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of whether and to what extent the organisation of industrial activity influences innovative output in investigating the European regional landscape. After a review of the related literature we build a model based on firstly, different...

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Evolutionary economics and economic geography

Boschma, Ron A.; Lambooy, Jan G. - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 9 (1999) 4, pp. 411-429

This article attempts to explore how key notions from Evolutionary Economics, such as selection, path …

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Women empowerment in Portuguese rural municipalities: Outcomes from a project

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2012

The work presented here is based in a set of outcomes from a project developed in four rural municipalities of the center of Portugal, with the names Vouzela, Mangualde, Seia and Guarda. This project was supported by the National Support Reference Framework (NSRF) and had the objective of the...

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Effects on women empowerment of awareness raising

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2012

This work is based on a project developed by the ACCIG (Association of the Culture and Knowledge for the Gender Equality) for some rural municipalities in the Center of Portugal. This project was financed by national funds and by funds from the European Union through the NSRF (National Support...

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Women empowerment in Portugal: Realities, constraints, policies, strategies and initiatives

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2012

In Portugal we have yet problems with disadvantaged groups, in some cases because the social conditions, in other cases because the economic conditions and in another situations from the familiar and physical circumstances. This context sometimes is worse in the rural areas, because has other...

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Does proximity matter in the choice of partners in collaborative R&D projects? : an empirical analysis of granted projects in Germany

Fuhrmeister, Clemens; Titze, Mirko; Blum, Ulrich; … - 2014

This paper contributes to the discussion on the importance of physical distance in the emergence of cross-region collaborative Research and Development (R&D) interactions. The proximity theory, and its extensions, is used as a theoretical framework. A spatial interaction model for count data was...

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Governance and the City : An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance

Kaufmann, Daniel; Leautier, Frannie; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2014

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of service … set of hypotheses, and then test them econometrically. The findings suggest that good governance and globalization (at …

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Complex regional assessment possibilities of competitiveness of the information economy and society in Hungary : from regional statistics to regional policy

Jakobi, Ákos - 2012

Since ICT factors got growing importance in shaping social and economic differences, the determination of competitiveness in the information economy and society became needful in understanding modern regional disparities of Hungary. To evaluate recent inequalities caused by the factors of...

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Economic and social motives of using geography-related information and communication technologies : a Japanese-Hungarian comparative study

Jakobi, Ákos - 2012

country of information technologies, and Hungary, a member state of the EU with different backgrounds and opportunities of ICT …

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Spinoffs and M&A as drivers of spatial clustering : the evolution of the Dutch banking sector in the Amsterdam region in the period 1850-1993

Boschma, Ron; Wenting, Rik - 2010

There is little understanding of how clusters evolve, and where. While dynamic analyses of clusters hardly exist, this is especially true for spatial clustering of service industries. We take an evolutionary perspective to describe and explain why the Dutch banking cluster clustered in the...

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