H UDSON R. (1997) Regional futures: industrial restructuring, new high volume production concepts and spatial development strategies in the new Europe, Reg. Studies 31, 467-478. The last two decades have seen an increasing concern to reorganize production processes and experiment with a variety...

The appearance in scientific life some new notions and terms adequate to them is a natural process. In the field of research laws and regularities of spacial economics more and more popular now is becoming the notion of regional or territorial cluster. It should be agreed with those researchers...

This research investigates eco-clusters as driver for greening regional economic policy and examines necessary incentive structures to foster eco-innovation as well as growth and employment in the eco-industry sector. Eco-clusters are seen in context with sustainability and environmental...

Zusammenfassung Die gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung von Regionen erlangt in der Gegenwart, insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund der europäischen Integration, eine wachsende Bedeutung. Damit geht die Forderung nach einer ständigen Verbesserung der Informationsbasis über die...

Using data from the OECD Regional Well-Being Index - a set of quality-of-life indicators measured at the sub-national level, we construct a set of composite well-being indices. We analyse the extent to which the choice of five alternative aggregation methods affects the well-being ranking of...