http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3172 ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:24 GMT 2026-04-08T14:00:24Z https://dspace.uni.lodz.pl:443/xmlui/bitstream/id/5ed89666-512b-45af-9ff7-547eee2dd2a6/ http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3172 http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10820 The Iconic Model of Landscape Aesthetic Value Kowalczyk, Anna Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10820 2013-01-15T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10819 Urban Regeneration in a ‘City of Culture’ the Case of Pécs, Hungary Faragó, László The development of Pécs is essentially due to its historically central location and to the fact that the regional institutions and the revenues generated by them have enriched the city. This functional wealth elevated the city to a position above the surrounding settlements. In its development, culture has always played a significant role. From the second half of the 19th century, it was industrial development which contributed most to its growth, a trend which was reversed at the end of the 20th century. The crisis arrived with the transition in the 1980s and has so far not been resolved. The city once more based its growth concept on human capital and on the cultural tradition when formulating new development strategy, and, as a result, it won the title of European Capital of Culture 2010. However, market processes and EU development funds necessarily generate trends which are rather more global, and in the post-socialist cities there are insufficient funds for endogenous development based on local factors to be realised. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10819 2013-01-15T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10818 Innovation and New Path Creation: The Role of Niche Environments in the Development of the Wind Power Industry in Germany and the UK Carpenter, Juliet; Simme, James; Conti, Elisa; Povinelli, Fabiana; Kipshagen, Joschka Milan This paper seeks to explore the issues of innovation and new path creation in the UK and Germany, illustrated through the case of the modern wind power industry. Taking an evolutionary perspective drawing on path dependence theory, the paper examines the role of niche environments in the creation of new economic pathways. The research finds that new economic pathways are more likely to develop in places where niche conditions provide receptive environments for innovations to flourish. The policy implications of the research include the importance of supporting niche environments that encourage growth in new sectors and the need for financial support to bring innovations to market, to encourage the development of new economic pathways. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10818 2013-01-15T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10817 Open Innovations and Living Labs: Promises or Challenges to Regional Renewal Karppi, Ilari The paper brings to the foreground modes and strategies of organising purposeful action that may be conductive to local and regional actors’ successful coping in the more and more competitive environment. The paper is pragmatist by its approach in a sense that it emphasises preconditions and possibilities for making ideas work. However, to do this is a difficult task. In the maze of multifaceted information flows and revolutionary technologies for reaching them enterprises and public actors need to find and construct better structured information that really helps them to operate. The paper introduces two sets of case activities that build on open innovation and living lab approaches in their attempts to make the boundaries between organisations and their environment more permeable. Its findings support the structuralist idea that spatial attributes matter more than as a mere venue, platform, or even container of social action. The venues studied in the paper are unique: one of the oldest still remaining factory buildings in the innermost core of the city of Tampere and a re-used loghouse in a peri-urban landscape outside the city. They both serve now as true exploratory spaces with no functional or institutional lock-ins stemming from them to bond their present-day users. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10817 2013-01-15T00:00:00Z