Die Berliner Wirtschaft hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren dynamisch entwickelt, die Industrie hat an diesem Wachstum aber kaum partizipiert. Das Engagement großer Industrieunternehmen lief zuletzt eher darauf hinaus, die Potentiale Berlins für die Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle und...

This paper proposes an evolutionary perspective on regional resilience. We conceptualize resilience not just as the ability of a region to accommodate shocks, but we extend it to the long-term ability of regions to develop new growth paths. We propose a comprehensive view on regional resilience,...

Using census-type data of Hungarian firms, we test major hypotheses of spatial economic theories focusing on the impact of industrial and market concentrations on regional economic growth. Our empirical evidence confirms that both industrial and market concentrations have a significant positive...

Although industry clusters are major targets of regional economic development in less developed regions as well, we still need a deeper understanding on how spatial clustering of firms generates dynamics in lagging regions. These latter environments may differ too much from those typical cluster...

A proposta deste artigo é estudar a evolução histórica da Baixada Fluminense, especialmenteas cidades de Nova Iguaçu e Duque de Caxias, para mostrar as funções exercidaspor esta área no desenvolvimento social e econômico da Região Metropolitana do Riode Janeiro. Em outras palavras, o...

Radically new technology offers the prospect of a New and high productivity Economy for the industrially advanced economies. These opportunities are rapidly taken advantage of by innovative firms operating across national borders. Rapid globalization, therefore, makes the regional dimension of...

Although industry clusters are major targets of regional economic development in less developed regions as well, we still need a deeper understanding of how the spatial clustering of firms generates dynamics in lagging regions. These latter environments may differ from the typical cluster policy...

Kistérségi szintű, 1998-2005 évekre vonatkozó magyar vállalati adatok alapján vizsgáljuk a gazdaságföldrajz agglomerációs előnyökre és regionális növekedésre vonatkozó fő hipotéziseit. Eredményeink azt mutatják, hogy a helyi tudás - iparági koncentrációt és a...

Some rural regions in Western Germany have experienced a very positive economic development in terms of employment and incomes in the past decade. This development, however, is in sharp contrast to the the enduring economic lag of many rural regions in Eastern Germany. This paper seeks to find...

The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. This paper aims to shed some light on the relation between entrepreneurship and growth by arguing that entrepreneurial activity relates to growth via reallocation...