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Territorial innovation in less developed regions governance, technologies, and sustainability European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Rhaishudin Jafar Rumandan, Margareth Sylvia, Reski Putra Utama
Published in European Planning Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Spatial planning systems in Central and Eastern European countries: review and comparison of selected issues European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Mazraaten Thoyyibah
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Redefining the entrepreneurial discovery process for smarter specialization in Europe European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Andrea Ganzaroli
The objective of this paper is to propose a revision of the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP) as a key driver in the Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) policy framework. To this end, the pape...
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The evolution of regional triple helix food sector SME interventions: a longitudinal study, Wales, UK European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Sharon Mayho, Darren Mumford, Leanne Ellis, David C. Lloyd, Elizabeth C. Redmond, Nick Clifton
This paper explores the effectiveness of regional intervention strategies aimed at enhancing ‘low-tech’ SMEs’ sustainable competitive advantage and innovation activities, employing the food sector ...
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Spatial distribution of bioeconomy R&D funding: opportunities for rural and lagging regions? European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Leonard Prochaska, Daniel Schiller
The promotion of R&D carries the risk that economically strong regions will benefit to a greater extent and that regional disparities will increase by focusing the economy on high technology. Howev...
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The transformative potential of inward investment on industrial cluster development: the case of the semiconductor industry in Wales European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Max Munday, Robert Huggins, Wanxiang Cai, Nikos Kapitsinis, Annette Roberts
This paper examines the transformative potential of inward investment on cluster development. It undertakes this through the lens of the evolving semiconductor cluster in South Wales (UK) and withi...
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Gentrification and diversity. Rebranding Milan’s Chinatown European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Paola Briata
Published in European Planning Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Accounting for cultural heritage management: resilience, sustainability and accountability European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Wahid Wachyu Adi Winarto
Published in European Planning Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Buildings for people: responsible real estate development and planning European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 John Lauermann
Published in European Planning Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Make digitalized places for experimentation work: unravelling and governing transformative dynamics of FabLabs and Makerspaces European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Tobias Held
While maker platforms, such as FabLabs and Makerspaces, are commonly perceived as drivers for transformative trajectories, little is known about how the dynamics of experimental collective agency a...
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Reshore production now: how to rebuild manufacturing and restore high wages, high profits, and national prosperity in the USA European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Fajar Pitarsi Dharma, Nimas Alfiana R. Saputri, Gawik Setiawan
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Subsidiary networks, connectivity, and urban-regional economic development European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Harald Bathelt, Maximilian Buchholz
This paper argues that urban-regional income development depends on a larger fabric of economic relations at the national and international levels. Focusing on Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) ...
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The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Martin Kebza
This study examines the patterns of suburban development in major Polish agglomerations with the aim of uncovering uneven suburban growth and the consequent emergence of a polycentric arrangement a...
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Urban change in Central Europe: the case of Kraków European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Maciej J. Nowak
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Rural governance in the UK: towards a sustainable and equitable society European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Bayu Prasetio
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A climate report gone missing – power mechanisms in Swedish national transport planning European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Linnea Eriksson, Jacob Witzell, Karolina Isaksson, Christina Lindkvist
While the technological development of vehicles and fuels is not adequate to meet current climate mitigation targets, infrastructure development also plays an important role in transforming the tra...
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Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.0 European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Eva Kiss, Balázs Páger
The study explores how the territorial structure of manufacturing sectors with differing technological intensities is influencing the spatial pattern of digitalisation in the early stages of the fo...
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Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Simona Šťastná, Jan Ženka, Luděk Krtička
We examine the association between industrial structure and regional economic resilience during five different crises in Czechia, focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war. The ...
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Scaling beyond north and south: local agency of Finnish municipalities in European structural funds European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Fredriika Jakola
Increasing regional differentiation and discontent in Europe have directed critical attention to European territorial cohesion policy and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Fund) mec...
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Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Andrzej Cieślik, Tomasz Misiak
This paper examines the effects of related and unrelated variety on total factor productivity (TFP) in Poland. Based on dynamic panel data regression results for Polish regions in 2003-2019, we fin...
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COVID 19 and regional entrepreneurship: which regional features can mitigate the devastating effects of COVID-19? European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Ismail Demirdag
Given the assumption that entrepreneurship is context-dependent and embedded in spatial features, the severity of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on entrepreneurship may vary significantly across...
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Branding soft spaces European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kaj Zimmerbauer, Kees Terlouw
This paper discusses how newly-conceived soft spaces – typically with fuzzy boundaries and less formally organized institutional structures – are ‘commodified’ through visualizations in promoting p...
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Correction European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-01-17
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The role of large corporations in entrepreneurial ecosystems – a case study of Munich European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Sarah Herzog, Colin Mason, Michaela Hruskova
A critical omission in research on entrepreneurial ecosystems is the role of large firms. It is claimed that they are critical actors. However, the current consensus – which suggests that their eff...
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Technology Advances and Innovation in Wine Tourism: New Managerial Approaches and Cases European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Fajar Pitarsi Dharma, Nurul Anwar, Syaifullah Syaifullah
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Conflicts in the inter-municipal management of commercial areas – a case study using cognitive-affective mapping European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Hannah Kosow, Sandra Wassermann
Multiple conflicts of spatial planning are currently intensifying in the context of sustainability transformations. This paper aims to better understand the conflicts involved in planning inter-mun...
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Environmental acceptability of suburban sprawl around two differently sized Czech cities European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Jan Kubeš, Robert Szmytkie
Suburbanization and suburban sprawl are natural processes in a certain period of development of the city and its hinterland. According to studies devoted to suburban sprawl, this sprawl has many ne...
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New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Keungoui Kim, Dieter F. Kogler, Massimiliano Coda Zabetta
In this paper, we investigate the role of brokers in the regional innovation network and its influence on innovative and collaborative outcomes. For this purpose, we make use of data from the Europ...
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Privatisations, FDI, and Greece’s regional economic recovery: an empirical study of perceptual view of investors European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Evangelos Rasvanis, Vassilis Tselios
This paper aims to explore the perceptions of domestic and foreign entrepreneurs (businesspeople and/or managers) operating in Greece towards the spatial diffusion of FDI effects caused by the priv...
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Towards a greener future? Environment and economic recovery in old industrial regions European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Erika Nagy, Melinda Mihály, Gergely Tagai
The paper focuses on how the environmental assets of old industrial regions were commodified and channelled in new productive processes , along with domesticating and distributing old and new negat...
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Who are those new entrants? Dissecting types of foreign capital entrance in traditional industrial districts European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Carles Boronat-Moll, Marta Peris-Ortiz, Ronald Rojas Alvarado
This paper explains the effects originated by the massive entrance of foreign capital in the ceramic tile district of Castellon (Spain). Cross-fertilizing multinational acquisitions and industrial ...
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Tourism Planning and Development in Western Europe European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Rizqi Aulia Fajarwati Hassan
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Pubs and pints, crims and crimes: exploring the relationship between public houses and crime European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Ignazio Cabras, Ekaterina Shakina, Arpita Bhattacharjee
This paper examines the relationship between public houses or pubs, and crime rates in England and Wales. The impact of pubs on local communities is generally studied and investigated within the co...
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A tour of the European space economy: theorizing ‘What Happened?’ European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Philip Cooke
This editorial is intended to provide a brief overview of the evolution of a selection of European space economies and policies introduced to mitigate the devastating effects of at least five crise...
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Tourism planning and development in Western Europe European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Rizqi Aulia Fajarwati Hassan
Published in European Planning Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Greenfield FDIs as a catalyst for technological collaborations between European regions and emerging countries European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Ivan De Noni, Fiorenza Belussi, Yanting Gu
This research emphasizes the increasing role of emerging countries in the advancement of future technologies and investigates the extent to which greenfield foreign direct investments (FDIs) can re...
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Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Jan Píša, Vladan Hruška
In recent decades, attention to the role of actors in regional development has shifted from the role of ‘formal and collective’ actors to the role of individuals in change agency. In doing so, indi...
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Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Johan Högström, Peter Brokking, Berit Balfors, Monica Hammer, Mats Stjernberg, Johannes Lidmo
ABSTRACT The quest for sustainable urban development requires innovative planning approaches more apt to cater for transformative action. Based on a case study approach, this study aims to explore the potential for local planning to develop practical approaches able to accelerate the transition towards sustainable urban development. To guide spatial development towards sustainability, the analysis
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Sustainable suburban mobilities – planning practices and paradoxes European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Vibeke Nenseth, Per Gunnar Røe
ABSTRACT Cities are in transition towards more sustainable mobilities, and many city cores are beyond peak car. However, the suburbs are still largely car based. Although that planning principles for compact centres and transit-oriented development have been prevalent since the early nineties, there has been little progress towards more sustainable suburban mobility – nor. This is also the case for
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Do new brooms sweep clean? Striving for ‘A Just Europe’ in the Territorial Agenda 2030 European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Estelle Evrard, Peter Schmitt
The Territorial Agenda 2030, adopted in December 2020, introduces a new policy frame: that of ‘A Just Europe’. This intergovernmental policy document is intended to guide territorial cohesion polic...
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A marriage of inconvenience: the coupling of spatial planning to European environmental policy European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Joost Tennekes, David Evers
ABSTRACT For decades, the European Union has affected spatial planning in the member states through its environmental policies. To investigate the mechanism by which EU policy becomes joined up to spatial planning, we invoke the concept of ‘coupling’ from systems and organizational science. We show that coupling is established not only at the EU policymaking level (e.g. within a directive’s text),
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Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Noriko Otsuka, Alan Reeve
ABSTRACT In many European cities, railway stations have become urban hubs in which a variety of functions and uses are focused. These include retail, cafés, offices and housing. They are often also complemented by adjacent amenity open space, in both hard and soft landscaping, alongside a broader provision for other modes, such as public transport, walking and cycling. In this sense, large-scale transport
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University as an opportunity space enabler in a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Satu Rinkinen, Suvi Konsti-Laakso, Katja Lahikainen
ABSTRACT Universities are widely recognized as key players in entrepreneurial ecosystems that support entrepreneurial activities to create economic and social value in the region. Previous research has increased our understanding about the role of universities contributing to regional economic development and entrepreneurship through knowledge transfer mechanisms, increasing human capital and innovation
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Reterritorialisation of agricultural activities in land-use and food planning: comparing the Netherlands and France European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Tianzhu Liu, Willem K. Korthals Altes, Romain Melot, Frédéric Wallet
ABSTRACT The reterritorialisation of agricultural activities (RAA) consists of reinforcing local food production and its diversification activities oriented toward local consumers. RAA helps shape the local food system, which is an increasingly studied topic in the planning field. However, institutional impacts on planning approaches for RAA remain unknown. This study examines this question by comparing
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Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Mario Davide Parrilli
ABSTRACT Cluster policies have been implemented for many years across Europe. Within an evolutionary perspective, industrial development policies need to be updated, and adapted to respond to new changing scenarios, challenges and demands of the social and economic community. It is the case of the challenges raised by climate change and the recent international summits and agreements (e.g. 2016 Paris
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Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Arnault Morisson, Huiwen Gong
European regions are currently confronted with significant challenges stemming from the green transition and technological disruption. These challenges impose growing pressure on regions to restruc...
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Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Estibaliz Rodríguez-Núñez, Amparo Cervera-Taulet, Iñaki Periáñez-Cañadillas
ABSTRACT Urban Social Innovation Capacity is determined as a key aspect to explain Social Value creation in European cities suffering increased social problems derived from the urban growth and exacerbated by COVID-19. New Public Value Management paradigm has appeared involving urban managers in new city-centred management models based on Social Innovation networking processes, increasing their capacity
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Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Ewa Szulc-Wódarska, Arkadiusz M. Kowalski
ABSTRACT What is the role of regional innovation systems in start-up formation? To explain regional variation in start-up rates, we conducted a mixed-methods study based on data from Italy. Through in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs, we assessed the role of RIS in the start-up process. Next, we estimated a multivariate OLS regression model. We found that in Italian regions start-up formation depends
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How big things get done: the surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to space exploration European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Sven Daniel Wolfe
Published in European Planning Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Beyond a transport node? What residents want from transforming railway stations European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Michael Wicki, Sophie Hauller, Thomas Bernauer, David Kaufmann
Transport planning authorities and operators in various countries are planning far-reaching transformations of secondary railway stations into so-called mobility hubs with the aim to foster rail-ba...
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Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Andrea Pallás-Rocafull, José Pla-Barber, Cristina Villar, José-Luis Hervás-Oliver
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how the localization of firms in clusters enhances their resilience in the face of external shocks, using the COVID-19-related disruptions of global value chains (GVCs) as a case study. Our qualitative study of the Alcoi-Ontinyent textile cluster in Spain's Valencian Region shows that the cluster's institutional infrastructure facilitated the reorganization of the cluster’s
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Towards a multi-scalar place-sensitive planning approach in small-sized cities European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Lea Holst Laursen, Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange
ABSTRACT The urban fabric can be characterised as an ever-evolving assemblage operating on multiple scales; constantly being constituted and reshaped by internal and external elements, not making it possible to regard any place as an isolated entity at a specific scale. Through an overview of relational place theory, this paper aims to theoretically discuss how local planning practices need to include
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Integrating logistics into urban planning: best practices from Paris and Rotterdam European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Bram Kin, Heleen Buldeo Rai, Laetitia Dablanc, Hans Quak
Cities all over the world are rethinking their mobility policies in light of environmental and quality of life objectives. As space is one of cities’ scarcest resources, mobility’s spatial footprin...
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Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France) European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Morgan Mouton, Sonia Guelton, Philippe Poinsot
Austerity urbanism has emerged as a powerful concept to explore the political and socio-spatial consequences of cuts in public spending, but interrogations remain regarding public actors’ shifting ...
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The effect of value chain importance on regional economic recovery European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Zsófia Zádor, Zhen Zhu, Matthew Smith, Sara Gorgoni
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the link between value chain importance and economic growth for the EU24 regions between 2008 and 2018. It finds that relying more on GVCs worsened regional growth during the financial crisis, but led to higher growth in the long run. The results contribute to the literature on regional resilience and the public debate on the impact of shocks and the desirability of
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Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Laura Saija
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Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Kristian Olesen
This paper discusses the future challenges of strategic spatial planning in Europe in the coming decades. The paper argues that one of the core challenges for strategic spatial planning is to regai...
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‘Made in Germany’ how companies approach Circular Economy on LinkedIn European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 David Knäble, Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis
ABSTRACT In this study, circular economy (CE) relevance in Germany will be discussed based on LinkedIn readily available data. LinkedIn company profiles located in Germany with ‘circular economy’ in their description or any other field were selected and used as a data source to analyze their CE relation. Overall, 514 German companies were analyzed in reference to the 15 German regions they belong.
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A multilevel approach to firm interrelationships across European regions European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Daragh O’Leary, Justin Doran, Bernadette Power
ABSTRACT Policymakers attempt to foster entrepreneurship within European regions yet firm interrelationships across European regions remain understudied. This paper analyses the extent to which past firm births and deaths influence future firm births and deaths across European NUTS 2 regions through the lens of competition, multiplier and Marshall effects. Using a novel multilevel mixed effects regression
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Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece European Planning Studies (IF 3.777) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Theodore Metaxas
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of territorial assets on firms’ competitiveness in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki. Questionnaires were handed out to 1311 small- and medium-sized firms located in the area. The research instrument included 27 territorial assets where respondents evaluated the performance of Thessaloniki in these factors. The analysis used Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and