<title>Abstract</title> In this editorial we summarize and comment on the papers published in issue 7.2. The papers reviewed are ‘Informal Sector and Manufacturing Location: In Search of the Missing Links’ by Michiel Gerritse & Ana Moreno-Monroy; ‘Testing for Unit Roots and Cointegration in Spatial...

In this editorial we summarise and comment on papers published in issue 8.4. The first paper is by Frederick Guy, entitled 'Small, Local and Cheap? Walkable and Car-oriented Retail in Competition'. Secondly we have the paper by Nicola Francesco Dotti, Ugo Fratesi, Camilla Lenzi & Marco Percoco...

This study contributes to the debate on whether China’s domestic enterprises (DEs) have experienced a significant catch-up compared with foreign-funded enterprises (FFEs) in high-tech industries. Our paper tries to estimate a new set of capital stock and R&D capital stock by ownership for...

The recently announced Independent Innovation Strategy (IIS) signifies the climax of China’s technology catch-up effort during the past 30 years. This paper investigates the efficacy of, and prospects for this effort by reviewing comments from the relevant literature, by conducting a...

Building energy data analysis is a major branch of smart city development research. The usual back propagation neural network model for building energy prediction has problems of unclear physical significance, poor data generalization and low fitting accuracy. Therefore, a composite prediction...