The region has now widely been recognised as a principal setting for knowledge creation and use. The paper sets out an integrated framework of activities thai underlie knowledge-based economic growth in a regional setting, ...

The paper presents the dynamically changing economic situation of the second largest city of Poland and its metropolitan area whose traditional prosperity relied on the textile industry and accessibility of the Soviet Union ...

In Germany business promotion is pursued within vertical and horizontal nets of regional competition. The main competitors are business promotion agencies and business promotion offices, including Treuhand (Treuhandanstalt) ...

This article examines the role of agencies in the housing development process of two European countries: Britain and the Netherlands. The aim is to investigate how the role of local authorities, housing associations and ...

The demand for unskilled labour has collapsed across all the countries of the OECD. In the United States, this showed up primarily in falling real wages for less-educated men; in the countries of Europe. it took the form ...

The contemporary city centre is overloaded with activities and with expectations. New forms of managing city centres which have been labelled 'city centre management' try to deal with this new situation. This article ...

The direct contribution of research to the preparat i on of spatial poilicy in the Netherlands is relatively small. The policy-making processes rely heavily on the utilisation of 'in-stock' knowledge. The knowledge stock, ...