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Analysis of multiple gravitational influences on interregional population migration in South Korea Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Woosik Kim, Jindo Jeong, D. K. Yoon
Migration is the result of complex interactions between different socio-economic factors in different areas. This study analyses the multiple gravitational influences on interregional migration in ...
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Nation-state influence on tourism path creation in Southern Africa Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Mfundo Mlilo, Michael Bollig, Javier Revilla Diez
This paper explores the role of agency in the emergence and evolution of tourism paths in the post-colonial states of Southern Africa. Building on the Trinity of Change Agency concept, we emphasise...
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Correction Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-02
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Employment imbalances in EU regions: technological dependence or high-tech trade centrality? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Ariel L. Wirkierman, Tommaso Ciarli, Maria Savona
We analyse the role of technological dependence and interregional trade centrality in explaining a region’s employment performance. We first identify the core–periphery technological structure of E...
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Beyond print: Regional Studies in the digital age Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Jennifer Clark, Ben Derudder, John Harrison
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 9, 2024)
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Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Erica Melloni
Due to the frequency and impact of events, flood prevention is gaining importance on public agendas. Local governments and communities have a role to play, but they often lack resources and models ...
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What are the impacts of Cohesion Policy on the trade-off between employment and productivity? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Sebastien Bourdin, Sergio Destefanis, Gianluigi Coppola, Maria Kubara
This paper examines the heterogeneous effectiveness of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy in fostering regional growth, considering the potential trade-off between productivity improvement and job...
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The role of network structure and complexity for green inventions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Francesco Capone, Niccolò Innocenti, Stefania Oliva, Luciana Lazzeretti
Several studies underline that the production of green inventions might require different competences and resources. Yet, as far as we are aware, few studies assess the role of networks for green i...
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The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Ben Derudder
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Regional drivers of industrial decarbonisation: a spatial econometric analysis of 238 EU regions between 2008 and 2020 Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Chiara Vagnini, Leticia Canal Vieira, Mariolina Longo, Matteo Mura
The European context of socio-economic integration and physical proximity likely plays an essential role in explaining the decarbonisation outcomes of industrial sectors. However, there is hardly a...
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Missions, conditions and the policy transfer of Smart Specialisation in the European Union Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Charles Abbott, Rune Dahl Fitjar
Smart Specialisation is fundamentally a bottom-up policymaking process premised on entrepreneurial discovery and peer learning. Nonetheless, the European Union has relied on coercive policy transfe...
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FAR regulations and the spatial size of Brazilian cities Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Ricardo Carvalho de Andrade Lima, Leonardo Monasterio
This paper evaluates the influence of the maximum allowed floor area ratio (FAR) on the spatial size of Brazilian cities. We built a novel database on building height restrictions for the 325 large...
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Legitimacy and place leadership: responding to and recovering from disruption in regional soft spaces Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Andrew G. McClelland, Duncan Shaw, Judy Scully
This article explores through interviews the influence of legitimacy on place leadership within regional soft spaces in England during the COVID-19 pandemic. Legitimacy is an important yet underexa...
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The role of regulation and regional government quality for high-growth firms: the good, the bad and the ugly Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Sara Amoroso, Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos
High-growth firms (HGFs) are important for job creation and productivity growth. We investigate the relationship between product and labour market regulations, as well as the quality of regional go...
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Should fiscal equalisation and regional policy goals and tools be disentangled? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Julio López-Laborda, Andoni Montes-Nebreda, Jorge Onrubia
We exploit the mixture of policy goals and instruments of the Spanish regional funding system (RFS) to test whether equalisation transfers impact regional convergence. Using fixed effects and two-s...
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Bangers and cash: partisan bias in local government grant allocations across Great Britain Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Guto Ifan
This article examines partisan bias in local government grants across Great Britain, testing whether grant-awarding governments allocate more resources to local authorities controlled by their own ...
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Sustainable Development Goals in a regional context: conceptualising, measuring and managing residents’ perceptions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Pantea Foroudi, Reza Marvi, Maria Teresa Cuomo, Antonio D’Amato
This study explores how national-level Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are implemented at the regional level in Italy by achieving three objectives: (1) conceptualising local residents’ percep...
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Has the geography of collaborative spaces been affected by the pandemic? France as a case study Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Sébastien Bourdin, Guy Baudelle, Clément Marinos, Louis-Thibault Buron
This study investigates the potential devolution of collaborative spaces (CSs) to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic and explores the factors driving this shift. Using a geolocalised database...
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The geography of academic entrepreneurship: Spin-offs, firm growth and regional impact Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Haifeng Qian
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 9, 2024)
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Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola
The theorised reorganisation of global value chains (GVCs) during crises periods and the European Union advocating for a relaunch of manufacturing activities in favour of jobs creation bring about ...
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Cognitive similarity and the regional development of inventions: heterogeneity across renewable energy technologies Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Rosina Moreno, Diego Ocampo-Corrales, Vayana Skabrin
This paper finds that the development of inventions in renewable energy technologies seems to arise from cognitively similar knowledge located in the region, this being more the case in the last ye...
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Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Arnstein Aassve, Pierluigi Conzo, Francesca Luppi, Letizia Mencarini
This study focuses on the concept of generalised morality (GM), a cultural trait measured with the values of respect, obedience, generalised trust and control. Since GM drives economic prosperity a...
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Divergent paths for green transition: regional disparities in technology diversification Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Nils Grashof, Stefano Basilico
This study explores the regional diversification processes into green technologies (2000–17) for different types of regions. Utilising patent and Eurostat data, we analyse these processes along the...
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Connected or not? The value of air connectivity for regional development in Europe Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Emma Ceulemans, Sven Buyle, Joris Beckers
This paper studies the connectivity of European airports and their impact on regional development, measured by employment. It uses flight schedule data for 207 NUTS-2 regions from 2012 to 2019 in a...
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The EU’s twin transitions towards sustainability and digital leadership: a coherent or fragmented policy field? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Xinchuchu Gao
In order to achieve the goal of climate neutrality, while also enhancing Europe’s industrial competitiveness on the global stage, the acceleration of the twin – green and digital – transitions has ...
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Does digitalisation affect the adoption of electric vehicles? New regional-level evidence from Google Trends data Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Fulvio Castellacci, Artur Santoalha
Digitalisation is an important dimension that contributes to fostering the adoption of electric mobility. We investigate this unexplored topic by focusing on the regional level of analysis, and pre...
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Exploring the misalignment between HEIs’ educational offerings and the local economy in low(er) income regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 William Addessi, Bianca Biagi, Laura Ciucci, Claudio Detotto, Manuela Pulina
This paper investigates the relationship between graduates, higher education institutions (HEIs), and policymakers, examining their objectives and impact on HEIs’ attractiveness and graduate retent...
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The emergence of a ‘twin transition’ scientific knowledge base in the European regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Giacomo Damioli, Stefano Bianchini, Claudia Ghisetti
This study reveals both the spatial and the combinatory patterns of the digital and green scientific knowledge bases for the creation of new knowledge in the domain of the so-called ‘twin transitio...
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KIBS deepening and manufacturers’ productivity: the moderating role of absorptive capacity Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Igor Roberto Amancio, Glauco Henrique de Sousa Mendes, Eduardo Polloni-Silva, Herick Fernando Moralles, Bruno Brandão Fischer, Eduardo Sisti
The outcomes from the associations between manufacturers and knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) with consequences at the firm and regional levels have been called territorial servitisatio...
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In the flexible working era: the micro-location choices of co-working spaces Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Katiuscia Lavoratori, Yi Wu, Fangchen Zhang
Would physical location become less essential when work and communication are not limited to a fixed space? We explore the question with the micro-location choices of co-working spaces (CWSs) in Lo...
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Regional resilience and the network structure of inter-industry labour flows Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Zoltán Elekes, Gergő Tóth, Rikard Eriksson
This paper explores how the network structure of local inter-industry labour flows relates to regional economic resilience across 72 local labour markets in Sweden. Drawing on recent advancements i...
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Community capitals and economic resilience: insights from the Great Lakes Region post-Great Recession Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Lisa L. Losada-Rojas, Indraneel Kumar, Annie Cruz-Porter, Yue Ke, Andrey Zhalnin, Benjamin St. Germain, Konstantina Gkritza, Lionel J. Beaulieu
Recessions can cause regional economic changes, disproportionately impacting specific groups. To address these challenges, strategies are vital for boosting regional economic resilience. This artic...
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Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Marc Cowling, Ross Brown
Hitherto, the literature has largely overlooked the important role business angel finance plays in shaping different regional economies. Using a novel UK dataset, this paper calculates interregiona...
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Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 1926 Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Korneliusz Pylak, Sergey Sosnovskikh
This study explores the persistence mechanism of both high- and low-quality entrepreneurship in post-Soviet countries, encompassing entrepreneurial culture and historical regional characteristics. ...
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Multi-locality in the regions of Oslo and Helsinki: a regional planning perspective after the COVID-19 pandemic Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Mina Di Marino, Maija Tiitu, Antti Rehunen, Seyed Hossein Chavoshi, Kimmo Lapintie
In recent years, radical changes in technology and working cultures have influenced multi-local living and working tendencies. By employing a mixed methods approach, combining spatial analyses, doc...
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Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: how to bridge vision and reality Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Keungoui Kim, Chiara Ferrante, Dieter F. Kogler
Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) are implemented across European regions. However, investigations into whether S3 initiatives adequately match local knowledge capabilities are very scarce. This...
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Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Carolina Castaldi, Sandro Mendonça
What happens when actors and sectors incorporate references to specific territories in their development efforts? Throughout history, producers have capitalised individually and collectively on pla...
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The new geography of remote jobs in Europe Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Davide Luca, Cem Özgüzel, Zhiwu Wei
The paper maps the diffusion of working from home across 30 European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. We summarise the determinants of remote working and show that its uptake was lower than ...
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How regions diversify into new jobs: from related industries or related occupations? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Jason Deegan, Tom Broekel, Silje Haus-Reve, Rune Dahl Fitjar
This paper adds a multidimensional perspective to the study of related diversification. We examine how regions diversify into new jobs – defined as unique industry-occupation combinations – asking ...
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Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Giuseppe Albanese, Vincenzo Carrieri, Antonella Rita Ferrara, Maria Maddalena Speziali
In this paper, we present new evidence on the European Union’s (EU) Cohesion Policy’s last concluded programming period (2007–13). We depart from the broadly used gross domestic product (GDP) growt...
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Structure, agency and local climate governance: how do individual actors exploit local contexts to shape policymaking in smaller cities and towns? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Wolfgang Haupt, Leonie Laug, Peter Eckersley
Previous studies stress that structural conditions influence local climate action, but often neglect the role of agency in policymaking. Drawing on fieldwork in 11 German towns, we show how municip...
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Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Giampaolo Arachi, Debora Assisi, Berardino Cesi, Michele G. Giuranno, Felice Russo
This study evaluates the impact of intermunicipal cooperation on public procurement (PP) performance, based on the Italian experience. We use both a fixed-effects regression model and alternative m...
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Regional Studies Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 6, 2024)
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EU Cohesion Policy towards territorial cohesion? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Eduardo Medeiros, Oto Potluka, Barbara Demeterova, Ida Musiałkowska
Despite being one of the main European Union (EU) policy goals, expressed in the EU treaty and expected to be fostered by EU Cohesion Policy, territorial cohesion is still an under-researched scien...
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Correction Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28
The term ‘left behind places’ refers to post-industrial and rural areas characterised by economic under-performance and decline. This special issue aims to develop a broader understanding of the di...
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Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Joselin Segovia, Raul Ramos
We analyse the regional differences in eight measures of intergenerational mobility across cantons in Ecuador. Within-country estimates show heterogeneity with lands of opportunity, such as the Gal...
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Short-term rental expansion and residential displacement in tourism communities: evidence from Croatia Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Nebojša Stojčić, Maruška Vizek, Josip Glaurdić
This study investigates the impact of short-term rentals (STRs) on local communities in Croatia, one of the most tourism-dependent countries in the world, from the perspective of destinations of in...
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Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Pablo Beramendi, Soomin Oh, Melissa Rogers
This paper focuses on political decentralisation as an institutional determinant of the level and spatial distribution of infant mortality rates (IMR). At the national level, we show that political...
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(Un)linking industrial path development and development outcomes through asset mobilisation: the decline of the territorial embeddedness of labour in mining regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Miguel Atienza, Marcelo Lufin, Moritz Breul
New industrial paths do not necessarily translate into regional economic development. This article investigates how the nature of asset mobilisation for path development affects the way new industr...
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The rural enterprise economy Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Stefan Kah
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 8, 2024)
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Territorios y desarrollo: Teorías, debates y casos desde América Latina Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 José A. Borello
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 9, 2024)
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India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 José A. Borello
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 8, 2024)
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Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Alessandra Colombelli, Anna D’Ambrosio, Chiara Ravetti
We explore the link between women in business decision-making roles, regional gender equality in the workforce and start-up sustainability. We employ unique administrative data on innovative start-...
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Regional policy: theory and practice Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Peter Berkowitz
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 7, 2024)
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UNESCO World Heritage Site label and sustainable tourism in Europe: a user-generated content analysis Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Egbert Van der Zee, Nicola Camatti, Dario Bertocchi, Khalid W.A. Shomali
Officially branding local heritage through recognised labels is a strategy that regions can use to promote economic development. Regions increasingly seek more sustainable tourism development, whic...
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Leveraging on circular economy technologies for recombinant dynamics: do localised knowledge and digital complementarities matter? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Fabrizio Fusillo, Francesco Quatraro, Cristina Santhià
This paper investigates the relationship between local knowledge bases and recombinant dynamics in circular economy (CE) technologies. We focus on the role of accumulated green and digital compleme...
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Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Lorenzo Gabrielli, Patrizia Sulis, Matteo Fontana, Serena Signorelli, Michele Vespe, Carlo Lavalle
The recent so-called ‘data revolution’ offers unprecedented opportunities to innovate regional policies. New data sources are being widely used by the scientific community, however their uptake is ...
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How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland's 1998 regional reform Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Borys Cieślak, Paula Nagler, Frank van Oort
Among Polish cities facing socioeconomic difficulties are the former regional capitals which lost their administrative status due to the 1998 reform, reducing the number of regions. Making use of t...
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Universities as catalysts of change in locked-in and vulnerable resource-based regions of the Global South Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 José Luis Medina-Bueno, José Guimón, Elvira Uyarra, Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo
This paper explores the contribution of universities to regional development and innovation in locked-in and vulnerable resource-based regions of the Global South. Building on a regional change age...
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Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible Reg. Stud. (IF 4.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Lisa De Propris
Advanced economies have started to engage more pro-actively in designing, promoting and implementing a range of policies that aim to address the concurrence of two powerful and irreversible forces:...