Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stefan Siedentop Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Siedentop Author-Name: Philipp Zakrzewski Author-X-Name-First: Philipp Author-X-Name-Last: Zakrzewski Author-Name: Peter Stroms Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Stroms Title: A childless urban renaissance? Age-selective patterns of population change in North American and German Metropolitan areas Abstract: Since the 1980s and 1990s, many metropolitan areas in North America and Europe have registered population growth within the urban core, driven primarily by younger, better-educated and higher-income people – a phenomenon often referred to as ‘urban renaissance’ or ‘re-urbanization’. To date, the research on this topic has primarily focused on the socio-spatial implications, especially with the type and intensity of displacement pressures affecting low-income households. Demographic manifestations of this have rarely been explicitly targeted by empirical studies. This paper addresses the change of intra-regional age structures in metro areas that have witnessed a demographic revival of their core areas. It hypothesizes that an increasing segregation by age is a universal pattern of urban demographic change in advanced Western countries. With data for six German and US metro areas over a period of 20 years (1990–2010), strong evidence for this proposition was found: in all regions, the urban core became ‘younger’ over time, whereas the ageing of the population was more dynamic in suburban areas. However, the analysis also revealed transatlantic differences: whereas a kind of ‘childless’ urban renaissance can be posited for the American cities, families in Germany were at least partially involved in the process of densification of inner-city areas. The analysis provides evidence for a general trend towards re-urbanization and age segregation in regions of both countries. At the same time, re-urbanization is assessed as a strongly context-dependent development with distinctly varying socio-spatial characteristics. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-20 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1412270 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1412270 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:1-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lyndon John Murphy Author-X-Name-First: Lyndon John Author-X-Name-Last: Murphy Author-Name: David Pickernell Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Pickernell Author-Name: Brychan Thomas Author-X-Name-First: Brychan Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas Author-Name: Daniel Fuller Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Fuller Title: Innovation, social capital and regional policy: the case of the Communities First programme in Wales Abstract: This paper analyses how and why different forms of social capital are associated with different forms of innovation within the Communities First programme in Wales. Quantitative analysis shows that the Communities First programme partnerships analysed in this research are supportive of building both bonding and bridging social capital. Different types of bonding social capital appear to be positively related with two of the three types of innovative activity; it is bridging social capital which is statistically more strongly related to innovation outcomes, with some types of bonding social capital actually negatively related to hidden innovation. Whilst social capital building should not be considered a panacea for increasing levels of innovative activity within policies such as the Communities First programme. The qualitative analysis reveals multiple ways in which the Communities First programme partnerships evaluated are actively encouraging the simultaneous formation of bonding and bridging social capital, with evidence of hidden innovation and in particular social innovation being simultaneously formed. It can be stated, therefore, that regional policy aiming to develop non-traditional forms of innovation should more closely and explicitly reflect the relevance of building and maintaining particular types of bonding and especially bridging social capital. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 21-39 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1405740 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1405740 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:21-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David McVey Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: McVey Author-Name: Robert Nash Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Nash Author-Name: Paul Stansbie Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Stansbie Title: The motivations and experiences of community garden participants in Edinburgh, Scotland Abstract: This paper presents the perspectives of participants from three Community Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland and investigates the role that food growing plays in their recreation and leisure activities, personal development, the development of their children and the impact on their communities. Thirty-eight participants were interviewed using qualitative, semi-structured questions to explore their motivations and experiences from their involvement with community gardens. Participant observation was used to better understand the importance of the gardens in their lives. The participants felt the gardens were places that fostered neighbourly engagement, increased leisure opportunities, social support, community health, connectedness, and community diversity. They were also places that promoted knowledge exchange inside the garden and in to the homes of the people and the community itself. Anxieties over land use and land reform highlighted how community gardens symbolised empowerment but also showed resistance to the hegemonic structure of local council and government. In effect, the research suggests that community gardens grow much more than just food, they grow community. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 40-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1409650 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1409650 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:40-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kristinn Hermannsson Author-X-Name-First: Kristinn Author-X-Name-Last: Hermannsson Author-Name: Peter G. McGregor Author-X-Name-First: Peter G. Author-X-Name-Last: McGregor Author-Name: J. Kim Swales Author-X-Name-First: J. Kim Author-X-Name-Last: Swales Title: Students’ consumption expenditures in economic impact studies: assumptions revisited in an input–output approach for Scotland Abstract: This paper revisits the application of impact-study methods to the consumption expenditures of students. Whilst the academic literature on the subject is mature, it has traditionally applied simplifying assumptions concerning the exogeneity of expenditures, which tend to over- or underestimate the impact of local students, depending on the particular approach adopted. To resolve this issue, we invoke the principles of input–output analysis and specify a model where consumption expenditures can be partially endogenous and partially exogenous. The origin of the income used to fund consumption expenditures determines their exogeneity. This model is calibrated using the results from an income-expenditure survey. These general issues are relevant to any application of impact analysis where the initial injection is a consumption expenditure shock. The approach is demonstrated using Scottish data for 2013. Figures are produced, on a comparable basis, for the effects of the consumption expenditure of students from each of the Scottish higher education institutions (HEIs). We demonstrate that the biases introduced by employing the assumptions usually adopted in the literature are particularly distorting for HEIs that largely serve local students. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 57-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1428499 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1428499 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:57-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Guy J. Abel Author-X-Name-First: Guy J. Author-X-Name-Last: Abel Author-Name: Nayoung Heo Author-X-Name-First: Nayoung Author-X-Name-Last: Heo Title: Changing internal migration flows patterns in South Korea Abstract: In comparison with other developed nations, there is a relative lack of analyses on internal migration flow in South Korea. During the last 50 years, the country has witnessed distinct changes in both the levels and patterns of internal migration. Traditionally, the faster developing north-west administrative units (Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi regions) have accounted for the majority of in-migration. However, since 2011, internal migration in Korea has become more diffuse, with migrants moving to a greater variety of regions. We visualize these changes using chord diagram plots. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 78-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1431149 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1431149 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:78-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Fenton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Fenton Author-Name: Fanny Paschek Author-X-Name-First: Fanny Author-X-Name-Last: Paschek Title: Projects, participation and planning across boundaries in Göttingen Abstract: This paper explores efforts to coordinate strategies promoting sustainable development – with specific focus on mobility and transport in climate change mitigation – across administrative boundaries in the city and county of Göttingen, Germany. The paper questions the possibility to develop and align strategic objectives and implementation across administrative boundaries when relying on short-term project funds. The experiences of key stakeholders in Göttingen are presented, with reference to empirical data from a document and interview study. Results indicate that reliance on short-term, project-based funding from external sources offers both opportunities and challenges for locally and regionally integrated strategy formulation and implementation. Five factors shaping the strategy space of actors are used to frame the analysis, with findings suggesting the need for further research on how local authorities overcome capacity and resource limitations, particularly with respect to complex challenges such as climate change. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 81-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1428498 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1428498 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:81-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claudio Nichele Author-X-Name-First: Claudio Author-X-Name-Last: Nichele Title: Visualization of the 2017 #EURegionsWeek on Twitter Abstract: The European Week of Regions and Cities gathered almost 6000 participants from all over Europe in Brussels on 9–12 October 2017 to investigate how regions and cities can work for a better future in Europe. Participants posted on social networks their take-away and opinions, and commented what happened in the hundreds of workshops, visits, and networking events on the agenda. The graphic is an attempt to visualize all exchanges that took place on Twitter during the week of the event. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 90-93 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1429949 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1429949 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:90-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eoin Byrne Author-X-Name-First: Eoin Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne Author-Name: John Hobbs Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Hobbs Author-Name: Justin Doran Author-X-Name-First: Justin Author-X-Name-Last: Doran Title: Visualization of firm linkages in the Chicago ICT cluster Abstract: Do industry clusters derive their success from a strong ‘local buzz’ or from access to ‘global pipelines’? This important question is addressed in the context of the Chicago (Illinois, United States) information and communication technology (ICT) cluster, which has shown growth and dynamism and is a significant sector not only in terms of the jobs it creates directly but also by supporting other sectors in Chicago. Cluster mapping and analysis studies have provided industry and policy-makers with instruments to explain the cluster structure and its connection to an economy for over two decades. Visualization of linkages in networks and clusters (V-LINC), a methodology that records, maps and analyses the linkages that firms in clusters engage in, is applied to the ICT sector in Chicago. Visualizing the firm linkages of Chicago ICT firms provides a geographical footprint of the cluster’s ecosystem. Through an understanding of the various linkages that firms in a cluster engage in, targeted policy recommendations can be developed to build on strengths and address weaknesses. The visualization of firm linkages has considerable potential to add to cluster analysis by improving how data are portrayed, the dissemination of research and explaining how clusters operate. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 94-97 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1426036 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1426036 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:94-97 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bret Crane Author-X-Name-First: Bret Author-X-Name-Last: Crane Author-Name: Chad Albrecht Author-X-Name-First: Chad Author-X-Name-Last: Albrecht Author-Name: Kristopher McKay Duffin Author-X-Name-First: Kristopher McKay Author-X-Name-Last: Duffin Author-Name: Conan Albrecht Author-X-Name-First: Conan Author-X-Name-Last: Albrecht Title: China’s special economic zones: an analysis of policy to reduce regional disparities Abstract: There is no doubt that major regional disparities exist within China. The gap between its eastern coastal regions compared with the central and western regions has only grown wider over time. China’s special economic zones (SEZs) are defined as small geographical areas that allow the integration of free-market principles to attract additional foreign investment. However, the creation and success of SEZs has led to prosperity in the coastal regions of China, creating additional economic disparity between regions. This paper posits that one solution to reduce regional disparities is to extend the influence of the SEZs, or even set up new ones in different areas of the country, to spur investment and close the economic gaps. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 98-107 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1430612 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1430612 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:98-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Milad Abbasiharofteh Author-X-Name-First: Milad Author-X-Name-Last: Abbasiharofteh Author-Name: Wojciech Dyba Author-X-Name-First: Wojciech Author-X-Name-Last: Dyba Title: Structure and significance of knowledge networks in two low-tech clusters in Poland Abstract: The co-location and networking of firms and institutions, also known as clustering, positively influences the innovativeness of firms. The cluster literature provides a single-sided understanding of how clusters function due to an overemphasis in the literature on clusters in high-tech and developed economies at the expense of clusters in low-tech industries in less-developed regions. Applying social network analysis (SNA), this paper studies two furniture clusters in the Wielkopolska region of Poland. The findings demonstrate that: (1) the critical factor is the impact of institutionalization on the mechanisms of knowledge flows, Marshall’s externalities and, in consequence, innovativeness of firms; and (2) the underlining clusters do not show a tendency to build cluster-external linkages, opposing the dominant premise in the cluster literature. In the absence of national and international relations, managers of small and medium-sized firms and local institutions are the main sources of novelty for the clusters at the sustaining stage of their life cycle. The findings pave the way for initiatives aiming at creating and developing knowledge networks in lagging and catching-up regions in Europe, particularly those specialized in low-tech sectors. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 108-116 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1442244 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1442244 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:108-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chiara Andreotta Author-X-Name-First: Chiara Author-X-Name-Last: Andreotta Title: Visioneering futures: a way to boost regional awareness of the low-carbon future Abstract: The low-carbon future is a global challenge; it requires local answers that take into account the different conditions and specificities of individual regions. The Alps are one of the most sensitive areas to the transition to a low-carbon future owing to the effects of climate change, and the abundance of natural resources for the production of renewable energy. Generating and spreading awareness in this region is still a key issue for the implementation of a sustainable transition. This paper presents the application of a strategic planning approach (visioneering) to encourage a regional response in an alpine region (Cadore, Italy). The purpose of the empirical research is to improve the regional approach by stimulating social learning, by testing the visioneering approach and through use of related visual material. The conclusions show that visioneering can impact on a regional approach effectively by clarifying the individual’s role in the transition, and the actions that the region and individuals can effectively take. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 117-124 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1446844 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1446844 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:117-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kati Volgmann Author-X-Name-First: Kati Author-X-Name-Last: Volgmann Author-Name: Angelika Münter Author-X-Name-First: Angelika Author-X-Name-Last: Münter Title: Specialization of and complementarities between (new) knowledge clusters in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main urban region Abstract: This paper contributes to the discussion about the driving forces behind the polycentric restructuring of urban regions involving a centripetal process of metropolization and a centrifugal process leading to a regionalization of cities. Using the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main urban region in Germany as an example, it analyzes how these processes are manifested in the regional spatial structure. Two different empirical explorations are applied to reveal the spatial distribution and clustering of (1) knowledge-based industry (KBI) firms on a locational scale and (2) the sectoral specializations of and complementarities between the identified clusters. On the one hand, the identified traditional and new KBI clusters mirror the region’s traditional polycentric structure; on the other, the Frankfurt central business district stands out as the definite hotspot for KBI activities within the region. Thus, metropolization processes turn out to be the dominant driver of urban restructuring. Regarding the latter, the analysis shows that new KBI clusters frequently demonstrate strong monofunctional specialization and tend to complement and relieve traditional central business districts with regard to specific types of KBI activities, particularly in high-technology manufacturing and related high-technology knowledge-intensive services. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 125-148 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1452630 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1452630 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:125-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lucija Lapuh Author-X-Name-First: Lucija Author-X-Name-Last: Lapuh Title: Socio-economic characteristics of resilient localities – experiences from Slovenia Abstract: The concept of resilience is used to refer to a territory’s capability to withstand recession and recover afterwards. This paper explores what types of localities were most resilient to the 2008 economic recession due to their socio-economic structure. Resilience was defined on the basis of a business cycle as the recovery to pre-recession value and is measured with the change in gross value added per employee by municipality in Slovenia (LAU 2), and the change in the registered unemployment rate. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the most resilient Slovenian municipalities’ socio-economic structure before the recession. It was found out that specialization, export and transport infrastructure had the greatest influence on local resilience, while economic development and social structure partly influenced it. This paper adds to the discussion of the vagueness of the concept of resilience by clarifying its definition and measurement. Findings about socio-economic structure’s influence on resilience are important for academics as well as practitioners who contribute to municipality’s ability to avoid or mitigate a future recession. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 149-156 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1459202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1459202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:149-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: F. M. van Straalen Author-X-Name-First: F. M. Author-X-Name-Last: van Straalen Author-Name: P. A. Witte Author-X-Name-First: P. A. Author-X-Name-Last: Witte Title: Entangled in scales: multilevel governance challenges for regional planning strategies Abstract: The academic discourse considers the regional scale as an important planning level to provide for spatial objectives that transcend the boundaries of local authorities. Nonetheless, the problem-solving capacity of the regional planning level is still questioned by both academics and practitioners. This paper studies the tension between formal and informal regional governance and its practical challenges for two cases of Dutch provinces struggling with their position in regional governance networks. These cases entail pan-European development (Trans-European Transport Networks – TEN-T) and regional land development (Bloemendalerpolder). It was found that at the metropolitan scale, formal regional planning powers tend to overrule socially produced regional governance arrangements. Simultaneously, regional planning powers lack support of these socially produced arrangements for their interventions. At the same time, at the supra-regional scale, provinces are a logical stakeholder to fulfil a prominent role in regional governance, but often lack the institutional capacity to act as such. We therefore argue that regional planning authorities need to be granted the power and capacity to take up a more centripetal, intermediate role in governance arrangements. This would provide them more capacity to act in disentangling the difficult practical challenges of scalar problems that many regional governance arrangements currently face. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 157-163 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1455533 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1455533 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:157-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ann Markusen Author-X-Name-First: Ann Author-X-Name-Last: Markusen Title: Regional scholar, policy-maker, academic leader: the work of Brazilian economist Clelio Campolina Diniz Abstract: The author hosted Clelio Campolina Diniz during the writing of his second dissertation, required of professors in Brazil, at Rutgers University’s Project on Regional and Industrial Economics in the 1990s and subsequently headed up a US National Science Foundation-funded international project on new industrial districts with Campolina and colleagues in Japan and South Korea. She co-wrote a subsequently published paper with Campolina for the Inter-American Development Bank and served for two months in 2008 at the Federal University of Minas Gerais’s (UFMG) Center for Transdisciplinary Studies. Campolina and the author are currently researching how development theory might be expanded to incorporate culture and environment, using a new contemporary art museum and botanical gardens, Inhotim, in Minas Gerais as a test case. During a month-long work session on the latter in 2017, the author interviewed Campolina extensively for this paper. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 164-178 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1455534 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1455534 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:164-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Geoff Boeing Author-X-Name-First: Geoff Author-X-Name-Last: Boeing Title: Estimating local daytime population density from census and payroll data Abstract: Daytime population density reflects where people commute and spend their waking hours. It carries significant weight as urban planners and engineers site transportation infrastructure and utilities, plan for disaster recovery, and assess urban vitality. Various methods with various drawbacks exist to estimate daytime population density across a metropolitan area, such as using census data, travel diaries, GPS traces, or publicly available payroll data. This study estimates the San Francisco Bay Area's tract-level daytime population density from US Census and LEHD LODES data. Estimated daytime densities are substantially more concentrated than corresponding night-time population densities, reflecting regional land use patterns. We conclude with a discussion of biases, limitations, and implications of this methodology. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 179-182 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1455535 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1455535 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:179-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alasdair Rae Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair Author-X-Name-Last: Rae Author-Name: Stephen Hincks Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Hincks Title: Open to whom? Open-access publishing and global knowledge networks Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 183-189 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1461492 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1461492 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:183-189 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Markku Sotarauta Author-X-Name-First: Markku Author-X-Name-Last: Sotarauta Title: Smart specialization and place leadership: dreaming about shared visions, falling into policy traps? Abstract: The concept of smart specialization has rapidly acquired a central position in European policy and academic circles. It raises interesting challenges for the regional studies agenda. First, smart specialization is about not only policy formulation, implementation and evaluation but also pooling scattered resources, competencies and powers to serve both shared and individual ambitions. Thus, policy formulation and implementation need to be seen in a new light. Second, when smart specialization is seen as one of the platforms for aligning several actors to boost regional economic development, the need to understand agency in its multiplicity emerges as central. This paper argues that to achieve truly transformative smart specialization strategies, there is a need to investigate in more depth the multi-actor strategy processes and new forms of leadership, as well as to invest time and money in advancing related capabilities across European regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 190-203 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1480902 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1480902 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:190-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ivan Romić Author-X-Name-First: Ivan Author-X-Name-Last: Romić Title: Functional diversity in Keihanshin Metropolitan Area Abstract: Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of complex adaptive systems – systems made up of heterogeneous agents whose interactions form a dynamic network resulting in emergent behaviour. Recent research shows that various types of diversity increase with the scale of the system. This paper uses ideas and methods from community ecology to define business types as functional traits and to calculate functional diversity as a measure of the economic diversification in an urban system. It asks how functional diversity changes with the size of the city within an urban region. Using Keihanshin Metropolitan Area in Japan as an example, the paper concludes that while functional diversity scales with city size, it reaches saturation due to the limitations of the business types classification systems. It argues that regardless of the observed saturation, the method can reveal the structural complexity of the city, showing what types of industries form its economy. It also discovers functions common to all cities in the region, and calls for further development of the method by introducing the multidimensional analysis and additional measures of diversity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 204-211 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1479982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1479982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:204-211 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado Author-X-Name-First: Sonia Author-X-Name-Last: De Gregorio Hurtado Title: The EU urban policy in the period 2007–13: lessons from the Spanish experience Abstract: Urban issues have been under the policy attention of the European Union (EU) from the late 1980s. Its influence has been particularly significant in countries that had not developed an explicit urban national policy. This is the case of Spain, in which specific instruments aimed to address urban challenges co-funded by the Structural Funds have been developed over the last four programming periods of the Cohesion Policy. These instruments have been the following: URBAN (1994–99); URBAN II (2000–06); the Iniciativa Urbana (IU) (2007–13); and the Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategies (ISUDS/EDUSI) (2014–20). So far they have been the only explicit initiatives of urban regeneration that have operated at a national scale in the country. This fact, together with the sustained experience in implementing these kinds of instruments, points to Spain being an interesting case study in which to understand the evolution and contribution of the urban dimension of Cohesion Policy from 1994 to the present. In this context, the IU emerges as particularly relevant because it has worked as a nexus between the two rounds of URBAN and the ISUDS that are currently being implemented. It is also relevant because it continued the implementation of the URBAN method in Spain explicitly through 46 programmes of urban regeneration that were developed in all the regions (Autonomous Communities), something that did not happen in any other member states in the period 2007–13. Building on the literature on the contribution of URBAN to the practice of urban regeneration in the country, this study develops an in-depth analysis of the IU. The research has allowed the identification of the relevant lessons aimed to inform the implementation of the 173 ISUDS that are being developed at present in Spanish cities. These lessons can also contribute to the Spanish Urban Agenda (in progress) and, at the EU level, to the definition of the urban dimension of Cohesion Policy for the post-2020 period and its implementation in the member states. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 212-230 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1480903 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1480903 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:212-230 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michaela Stanickova Author-X-Name-First: Michaela Author-X-Name-Last: Stanickova Author-Name: Lukáš Melecký Author-X-Name-First: Lukáš Author-X-Name-Last: Melecký Title: Understanding of resilience in the context of regional development using composite index approach: the case of European Union NUTS-2 regions Abstract: Economies have always been prone to different kinds of exogenous shocks, which can destabilize the path and pattern of regional economic growth. Regional economy perturbed by a shock may move onto a new growth path by re-establishing economic linkages, both internally and with other regions. The question why one region is more vulnerable to economic shock than other, impelled to analyze notion of resilience in a regional development context. Despite own limitations of quantitative methods, several approaches in the form of composite indices (CIs) have been proposed by the European Union (EU) and the other institutions. The aim of this paper is to throw light on some of the underlying aspects of regional resilience and provide an overview of a notion as well as analysis of research studies on constructing the territorial CIs. The main results of the paper are overview and comparison of regional resilience literature and empirics of existing CIs that lead to measuring the EU NUTS-2 regions resilience based on constructing own index. CIs construction includes several steps that have to be made and corresponding methods have to be chosen. Primarily, selection of sub-indicators, normalizing methods, weighting schemes and aggregation formulas are fundamental. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 231-254 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1470939 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1470939 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:231-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bradley Loewen Author-X-Name-First: Bradley Author-X-Name-Last: Loewen Title: Cohesion Policy and institutional change in Hungary and Estonia Abstract: In the discourse on European Union Cohesion Policy (EUCP) reform, much attention is being paid to policy content, while less attention is being paid to the institutions responsible for adapting and implementing EUCP in national contexts. From a historical institutionalist perspective, regional policy institutions in EU member states are influenced in part by EUCP and national institutional contexts and legacies. Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, in particular, have grappled with institutional transformations in the recent era including the transition, pre-accession and post-accession periods, but the influence of EUCP on institutional change has not been well studied following EU accession. Using the cases of Hungary and Estonia, this study builds upon comparative research on CEE from the transition and pre-accession periods, providing an updated view of institutional developments with the aim of widening current understandings of EUCP. Different mechanisms of institutional change are highlighted, pointing to cross-country inconsistencies in the Europeanization process and implementations of EUCP resulting in weak institutions and ambiguity surrounding core policy concepts. Thus, the study reinforces the importance of national institutions for EUCP outcomes and legitimacy, which should factor into current discussions of EUCP reform for the future programming period. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 255-262 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1487804 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1487804 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:255-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yao Shen Author-X-Name-First: Yao Author-X-Name-Last: Shen Author-Name: Michael Batty Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Batty Title: Ripples and undulations in the perceived supply–demand mismatch surfaces of London’s job market Abstract: In all cities there is a potential for a mismatch to occur between the demand for and supply of jobs. This mismatch is reflective of the balance struck between jobs and housing. This mismatch is non-uniformly perceived by different occupations. The present paper introduces a method to simulate and represent the mismatch surfaces in the perceptions of different social groups that can be compared through visualization using a standard balanced plane. The three-dimensional visualization of the results of the London metropolitan area demonstrates that the commuting advantages – higher levels of commuting affordability through various transport systems, and the configuration of the land-use system – lead to larger ‘flooded areas’ under the balanced plane ($S_i^m$Sim = 0) and a more scattered pattern of the job centres from the central city to suburban areas for people in higher managerial occupations. Evaluation of these surfaces further show the east–south and north–south divisions perceived by occupations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 263-266 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1500936 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1500936 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:263-266 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Igor Calzada Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Calzada Title: ‘Algorithmic nations’: seeing like a city-regional and techno-political conceptual assemblage Abstract: There are changing dynamics among political regionalization processes and the rescaling of nation-states in Europe. However, updated and timely research remains scant, ambiguous and unable to meet the challenges of data-driven societies and uneven borders. Nations’ physical boundaries matter as much as political borders in their pervasive and growing algorithmic, stateless, liquid and metropolitan citizenship patterns. This paper explores these new ‘connectographies’ from a regional science perspective, introducing the term ‘algorithmic nations’ as a city-regional and techno-political conceptual assemblage. A case study is presented of the small stateless city-regionalized European nation of the Basque Country through its analytical and transitional lens, locally known as ‘Euskal Hiria’ (Basque city-region in the Basque language). This paper questions whether the Basque Country could evolve by (1) modifying its governmental logics and (2) merging its three separate devolved administrations (3) while enabling their direct interactions with citizens (4) through blockchain technologies as the small state of Estonia is implementing and employing cutting-edge algorithmic governance frameworks. In doing so, this paper suggests how four drivers – metropolitanization, devolution, the right to decide and blockchain – may be respectively invigorating four dynamics – geoeconomics, geopolitics, geodemocratics and geotechnologics – in this transition towards the algorithmic nations. Ultimately, this paper concludes with an algorithmic nations research and policy agenda decalogue of how these geotechnological changes might determine the future position of small stateless city-regionalized nations in the European Union. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 267-289 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1507754 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1507754 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:267-289 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mohamed M. Mostafa Author-X-Name-First: Mohamed M. Author-X-Name-Last: Mostafa Title: A spatial econometric analysis of residential land prices in Kuwait Abstract: Land price mapping has recently drawn considerable attention from academics and practitioners alike. This paper investigates the factors influencing residential land prices in a rather underrepresented part of the world. Owing to land prices’ spatial association and heterogeneity, the study uses both traditional and Bayesian spatial regression techniques to test the impact of population density, the percentage of Kuwaitis among the total population, the total number of schools, traffic accidents, and air pollution as measured by the prevalence of both carbon monoxide (CO, ppm) and ground-level or tropospheric ozone level (O3, ppb) on residential land prices in Kuwait. The general pattern of the results shows that land prices are driven positively by density, the percentage of Kuwaitis and the existence of educational amenities, while air pollution has a negative impact on prices. The analysis also reveals that land prices in Kuwait tend to cluster in groups/hotspots. It is argued that such an accurate identification of hotspots and the correct understanding of their relation to explanatory variables can help decision-makers to make sound decisions in areas as diverse as planning for amenities and zoning. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 290-311 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1518154 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1518154 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:290-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ulf Johansen Author-X-Name-First: Ulf Author-X-Name-Last: Johansen Author-Name: Ruud Egging Author-X-Name-First: Ruud Author-X-Name-Last: Egging Author-Name: Olga Ivanova Author-X-Name-First: Olga Author-X-Name-Last: Ivanova Title: Regional policy and the role of interregional trade data: policy simulations with a model for Norway Abstract: Point data observations are often used to calibrate computable general equilibrium (CGE) models; however, results may be impacted by calibration of an Armington trade specification in a regional CGE (R-CGE) model. This paper calibrates an Armington trade specification with three differently estimated interregional trade data sets. It estimates interregional trade with one survey and two non-survey methods. The resulting three different trade data sets are each used to calibrate REMES, an R-CGE model for Norway. Two regional policy reforms are simulated with the three model versions to analyze the sensitivity of regional manufacturing sector output to trade data estimates. The results show that the trade data estimation method used for calibration significantly affects regional sector output results. Policy analysts and developers should be aware that calibrating an Armington trade specification with differently estimated interregional trade data may have a substantial influence on model results, and hence, on ex-ante and ex-post conclusions on policy impacts. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 312-331 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1522967 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1522967 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:312-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kate Broadhurst Author-X-Name-First: Kate Author-X-Name-Last: Broadhurst Title: In the pursuit of economic growth: drivers and inhibitors of place-based partnerships Abstract: In the pursuit of economic growth, England has historically retained a level of centralized control despite policy attempts to decentralize. Consequently, attempts to create a subnational tier have struggled to establish a durable alternative. Reporting on the episode of localism, which began in 2010 and has involved the abolition of regional development agencies (RDAs) in favour of 38 voluntary local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) alongside the construction of a growing number of combined authorities, the research investigates a complex place-based economic landscape whereby the provision of guidance and sharing of practice in England remains limited. This paper draws on the existing literature to propose a conceptual model of place-based partnership that formed a scaffold for an empirical study involving 10 LEPs in the Midlands. A soft systems methodology was adopted to understand the factors that help and hinder these place-based partnerships. The paper advances the argument that the persistence of centralism limits the LEPs’ capacity to fill the missing space and observes a strong influence of central government and reliance on local government. Beyond the LEPs, given the global trend of decentralization, further research into the interplay between the factors in the conceptual model is encouraged to support the development of place-based partnerships as they work towards securing collaborative advantage. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 332-338 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1530134 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1530134 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:332-338 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stefan Gänzle Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Gänzle Title: ‘Experimental Union’ and Baltic Sea cooperation: the case of the European Union’s Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) Abstract: In the past, Baltic Sea cooperation has been characterized by a plethora of actors, embracing a wide range of policy objectives, such as the establishment of a good environmental status for the regional sea. In 2009, the European Council endorsed the European Union’s (EU) Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) as a new tool in the repertoire of Cohesion Policy and European Territorial Cooperation (ETC). The EUSBSR seeks to foster cross-sectoral coordination and functional cooperation in policy areas of ‘macro-region-level’ relevance, such as transport infrastructure, economic development and environmental protection – thus projecting a ‘soft space’ of transnational Baltic Sea cooperation. Although firmly placed under the so-called ‘Three No’s’, that is, the requirement of no additional EU funding, institutions and legislation, a lean governance architecture at the macro-regional level has emerged over time and the strategy mobilizes actors from all tenets of the EU’s multilevel governance system, including the EU itself, its member and adjacent partner states, as well as subnational authorities and civil society. Drawing on the lens of experimentalist governance, this paper analyzes the underlying mechanisms that allow it to be gauged to what extent the Baltic Sea ‘soft space’ has solidified over the past decade. It also shows that the EUSBSR effectively rebalances EU transnational and intergovernmental regional cooperation in the Baltic macro-region. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 339-352 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1532315 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1532315 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:339-352 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nancy Merary Jiménez-Martínez Author-X-Name-First: Nancy Merary Author-X-Name-Last: Jiménez-Martínez Title: The governance of waste: formal and informal rules in the central region of Mexico Abstract: Integrated solid waste management (ISWM) is the strategy for waste policy in Mexico. It entails a complex reorganization of waste services that disrupts preceding action systems and ignores previous local practices, such as scavenging, an informal activity whose goal is the recovery of materials from waste. The objective of this paper is to understand the governance of waste in a context of formal and informal rules in the central region of Mexico. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 353-360 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1535281 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1535281 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:353-360 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emerson Augusto Baptista Author-X-Name-First: Emerson Augusto Author-X-Name-Last: Baptista Author-Name: Guy J. Abel Author-X-Name-First: Guy J. Author-X-Name-Last: Abel Author-Name: Járvis Campos Author-X-Name-First: Járvis Author-X-Name-Last: Campos Title: Internal migration in Brazil using circular visualization Abstract: In Brazil – a developing country and one that in its last census in 2010 presented a number of five-year interstate migrations of approximately 4.6 million people – the study of internal migration is a complex exercise given the size and diversity of the country. We adapted the chord diagram plot to visualize the bilateral interstate migration flows in Brazil over a five-year period of 2005–10, and the migration stocks in Brazil in 2010. The bilateral migration flows highlight some recent trends of interstate migration (observed in recent decades), in turn different from cumulative flows over a long period (migration stocks). Brazilian internal migration in the new millennium seems to be marked by the inability of destination areas to absorb migrants over long periods, by the return migration to areas of origin and by the emergence of new areas of retention of migrants. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 361-364 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1526649 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1526649 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:361-364 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bin Xie Author-X-Name-First: Bin Author-X-Name-Last: Xie Author-Name: Yan Liu Author-X-Name-First: Yan Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: Visualizing Australia’s urban extent: a comparison between residential housing addresses and night-time light data Abstract: This graphic uses the 2014 Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF), a geocoded address database containing the physical addresses of all properties in Australia, to extract residential property addresses, and then uses Baidu eCharts visualization library to map out the extent of urban areas in Australia and its major metropolitan regions. By comparing with the DMSP-OLS night-time light data we identify the advantages of using G-NAF for mapping urban extent and its potential in monitoring and modelling urban growth and change. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 365-368 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1526648 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1526648 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:365-368 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Glen Searle Author-X-Name-First: Glen Author-X-Name-Last: Searle Author-Name: Thomas Sigler Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Sigler Author-Name: Kirsten Martinus Author-X-Name-First: Kirsten Author-X-Name-Last: Martinus Title: Firm evolution and cluster specialization: a social network analysis of resource industry change in two Australian cities Abstract: Evolutionary perspectives have been increasingly applied to understanding industry agglomeration. By tracking change over time, evolutionary perspectives shed a light on firm-level and sectoral changes that are contextualized within global industrial shifts. This paper addresses a research gap in evolutionary economic geography and regional science by applying network dynamics of industrial agglomeration though industry- rather than firm-level relations. It uses network analysis techniques to track the evolution of two industry agglomerations between 1993 and 2015. It focuses on the resource agglomerations in Brisbane and Perth, Australia, to evaluate changes that occurred over the period of the most recent commodities-driven economic boom period. By highlighting changes in forward- and backward- linkages within firms in resource economy agglomerations, it unpacks the shifting position of core industries in inter-industry networks. Results indicate that firms either consolidated around competencies or broadened towards greater flexibility, the extent depending on the local environment. Professional services and specific resource-related activities gained centrality, while manufacturing and various intermediary services such as transportation and warehousing lost centrality. This indicates that core competencies were built around key resource sectors (notably oil and gas), while companies ‘shed’ activities that were beyond their core competencies, particularly those that could be outsourced to outside firms. This paper ultimately proposes a novel way of tracking the evolution of industry agglomeration, and by focusing on the resource industry it provides insight beyond other studies focusing on manufacturing or services. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 369-387 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1539347 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1539347 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:369-387 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christopher Huggins Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Huggins Title: Did EU regional spending affect the Brexit referendum? Abstract: This paper explores whether European Union (EU) regional spending influenced how local areas voted in the UK’s 2016 EU referendum. While much focus has been on identity and demographic factors in explaining the referendum result, little attention has been paid to the role of EU interventions in the UK’s regions. This paper provides an initial exploration into this by assessing the role of EU regional spending. It finds the level of EU spending in local areas had little impact on how those areas voted in the referendum, raising questions about the communication and awareness of EU regional spending. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 388-397 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1544852 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1544852 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:388-397 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dominik Braunschweiger Author-X-Name-First: Dominik Author-X-Name-Last: Braunschweiger Author-Name: Marco Pütz Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Pütz Author-Name: Frank Heidmann Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Heidmann Author-Name: Mark-Jan Bludau Author-X-Name-First: Mark-Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Bludau Title: Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland Abstract: Climate change severely affects Alpine regions. Adaptation to climate change is needed in order to deal with these impacts, but the implementation of national adaptation strategies is inhibited by multiple obstacles. Regional strategic frameworks are just emerging, adaptation is of little priority to local agendas and policy mainstreaming is limited on all administrative levels. This paper provides a better understanding of the governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland, an example of a federal system with a strong focus on subnational levels and multilevel governance. We conceptualize governance as a network of policies, measures, actors and knowledge, and visualize their interactions using D3.js, a data-driven JavaScript library. The findings illustrate the typical division of labour in federal multilevel governance systems. The national level provides a strategic framework and funding and conducts coordinating measures at subnational levels, especially the local-level implementation of concrete measures. Conducting comparable mappings for other countries would allow interesting comparisons and insights into common barriers and opportunities to adaptation to climate change. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 398-401 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1549507 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1549507 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:398-401 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bozena Wielgoszewska Author-X-Name-First: Bozena Author-X-Name-Last: Wielgoszewska Title: Onwards and upwards? Migration and social mobility of the UK graduates Abstract: Ensuring equal opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds is a major political concern, and spatial aspects to this debate relate to the availability of opportunity in different regions of the UK. In particular, migration between the regions of the UK is common amongst domestic students and graduates, and has been shown to have consequences for both the region of origin and the destination. Despite the recognition that migration is not a one-off event, but an ongoing process, empirical studies rarely operationalize it in ways reflecting this continuity. This study contributes to filling the above-described gap by investigating how the patterns of graduates’ migration across their life-course relate to their intra-generational social mobility. Longitudinal data, extracted from the 1970 British Cohort Study, and sequence analysis are used to derive the typologies of these patterns. A set of logistic regressions is used to investigate the relationship between these two, simultaneous aspects of graduates’ life-courses over the long term. The findings indicate that graduates’ migration across their life-course is significantly related to their intra-generational social mobility. In particular, temporary migration safeguards the advantaged position of the most privileged, in line with the notion of a ‘glass floor’. At the same time, it can create a ‘glass ceiling’ for those on less privileged trajectories. In the light of these findings, both academics and policy-makers are encouraged to incorporate migration, both theoretically and practically, into their research approaches. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 402-411 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1552188 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1552188 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:402-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Walsh Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh Title: Prior employment as a causal mechanism within entrepreneurial ecosystems Abstract: The entrepreneurial ecosystems literature lists numerous factors, emphasizing their interactions. However, there is limited empirical literature exploring the causal mechanisms, nor an understanding of the relative importance of these factors. This paper places the entrepreneur at the centre of the analysis by constructing a career history network of over 2100 Irish high-tech entrepreneurs. It finds that prior employment experience can be used to measure the prominence of different actors anticipated in the entrepreneurial ecosystem literature. Regional universities play an anchor role within each regional entrepreneurial ecosystem. Universities are indirectly connected to other organizations to form an integrated network that supports high-tech entrepreneurship. This approach may be used to assess and motivate interventions to support integration and anchor organization establishment that enhances regional entrepreneurial activity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 637-645 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1691047 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1691047 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:637-645 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anugrah Ilahi Author-X-Name-First: Anugrah Author-X-Name-Last: Ilahi Author-Name: Kay W. Axhausen Author-X-Name-First: Kay W. Author-X-Name-Last: Axhausen Title: Integrating Bayesian network and generalized raking for population synthesis in Greater Jakarta Abstract: Constructing agent data with detailed information on their sociodemographics is substantially important for agent-based modelling. However, to collect data about the whole population is not efficient, since it requires an expensive and time-consuming survey, especially for a large population. The paper uses a novel approach that integrates Bayesian network (BN) and generalized raking (GR) multilevel iterative proportional fitting (IPF). Furthermore, the approach is applied to construct the population for Greater Jakarta, Indonesia, which consists of 30 million inhabitants. The results show that the BN approach can produce data that represent the probability distribution of sample data and that the IPF can match it against aggregate census data. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 623-636 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1687011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1687011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:623-636 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William Ka Shing Cheung Author-X-Name-First: William Ka Shing Author-X-Name-Last: Cheung Author-Name: Siu Kei Wong Author-X-Name-First: Siu Kei Author-X-Name-Last: Wong Title: Understanding governance of public land sales: an experiment from Hong Kong Abstract: For centuries, many governments in the Asia-Pacific region have owned all the land resources, and government land auctions were deployed as an essential channel to supply public land. While the government-led approach to land supply is often criticized for lacking sensitivity to changing market conditions, experiments have been conducted to remedy this defect by means of a market-led approach that relies on developers to reveal their demand for public land. However, under the market-led approach, public land would not be put on sale until a developer committed an irrevocable bid to initiate a land auction. This market-led mechanism, namely the land application list system (ALS) in Hong Kong, China, has typically created a problem of freeriding among developers and has led to the unintended consequence of an undersupply of land. By considering such land sales reform in Hong Kong, this study uses a simultaneous equation model to demonstrate that the ALS has caused a significant undersupply of land. Moreover, an ordinal generalized linear discrete-choice econometric model is used to confirm that developers are more likely to coordinate with each other in order to internalize freeriding problems. A transaction costs framework is then developed to explain that market- and government-led approaches are not mutually exclusive and should complement each other. A dual approach that integrates both mechanisms is discussed as a new policy option. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 607-622 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1684207 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1684207 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:607-622 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laura Finnegan Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Finnegan Title: Stepping stones? An exploration of internal football player migration in the Republic of Ireland Abstract: The football spatial landscape is a key consideration for the equity of any football association and its constituent members. Organizational processes can shape these landscapes and influence player development. Analysing migratory patterns of youth footballers can provide an insight into such processes. This paper investigates the migratory patterns of underage footballers within the Republic of Ireland development pathway. The sample consisted of n = 1937 youth footballers who had been selected onto the Football Association of Ireland’s primary talent development programme, the Emerging Talent Programme (ETP), between 2006 and 2012. Analysis shows clear migratory patterns towards the Dublin District Schoolboy League (DDSL), primarily from a double-tiered level of migration around Dublin. Clubs that had developed reciprocal relationships with clubs in the UK and were more prominent at underage level were the most common location for internally migrating footballers. Research has historically neglected internal patterns of migration, focusing on transnational football migration. Internal patterns of migration demonstrate inequity across the football development pathway and may result in potential sources of talent being neglected or improperly developed which is a cause of concern within smaller national associations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 596-606 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1685905 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1685905 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:596-606 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Timothy R. Wojan Author-X-Name-First: Timothy R. Author-X-Name-Last: Wojan Title: Geographical differences in intellectual property strategies and outcomes: establishment-level analysis across the American settlement hierarchy Abstract: The wealth of utility patent data has made this form of intellectual property (IP) protection the primary focus of the economics and geography of innovation. However, in addition to utility patents, the IP expressed in a firm's products or processes may also be protected via design patents, trademarks, copyright, or in non-compete and non-disclosure agreements. Recent research suggests that mixed modes of technological and non-technological innovation are associated with the most rapid firm growth and, thus, mixed-mode IP strategies may provide important insight for understanding the geography of innovation. If non-technological IP is an important complement to technological IP, then analyses focusing solely on the impacts of patents are misspecified. In addition, if the capability for pursuing these various tactics differs across the settlement hierarchy, then our understanding of the geography of IP is similarly distorted by the singular focus on patents. The objectives of this study are to examine how these tactics of protection are combined into IP strategies, how these strategies vary over the settlement hierarchy, how the different strategies are associated with different economic outcomes, and how these different strategic orientations may differentiate entrepreneurial ecosystems across space. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 574-595 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1682651 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1682651 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:574-595 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alfredo Del Monte Author-X-Name-First: Alfredo Author-X-Name-Last: Del Monte Author-Name: Sara Moccia Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Moccia Author-Name: Luca Pennacchio Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Pennacchio Title: Turnout and voting behaviour in constitutional referendums: a regional analysis of the Italian case Abstract: This paper investigates regional disparities of both turnout and voting behaviour in constitutional referendums. The analysis is undertaken at the NUTS-3 level and it considers the three constitutional referendums held in Italy in the period 2001–2016. It finds that turnout was lower in provinces with higher unemployment rates and where citizens had a stronger affiliation to opposition parties. These factors, along with level of government popularity, were important drivers of referendum results, especially in 2006 and 2016 when the referendums were rejected. In addition, while the three referendums implied different effects for rich and poor regions, mainly due to decentralization of powers, the local voting patterns did not reflect this. Overall, these findings suggest that the merit of the constitutional reforms played little part in explaining the outcome of the referendums. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 557-573 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1680314 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1680314 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:557-573 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kristinn Hermannsson Author-X-Name-First: Kristinn Author-X-Name-Last: Hermannsson Author-Name: Rosario Scandurra Author-X-Name-First: Rosario Author-X-Name-Last: Scandurra Author-Name: Marcello Graziano Author-X-Name-First: Marcello Author-X-Name-Last: Graziano Title: Will the regional concentration of tertiary education persist? The case of Europe in a period of rising participation Abstract: The economic impact of tertiary education is important for regional development, and whilst participation rates have increased, it is unclear whether this has benefited regions equally. The paper analyses a panel of European regions to determine how the geography of tertiary education has evolved between 2002 and 2012. The results show a mixed picture. Overall, the system is characterized by path dependency, with the past being the best predictor of the future. There are some signs that the most lagging regions in 2002 are catching up, with some benefiting from recently opened institutions. Meanwhile, the very top-performing regions are breaking away from the rest, showing above-average growth, especially in the case capital regions. This work contributes to the ongoing research on the role of higher education in fostering regional economic development, and the emerging inequalities across European regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 539-556 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1680313 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1680313 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:539-556 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William Miles Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Miles Title: Regional convergence and structural change in US housing markets Abstract: If house prices are convergent at the national level, monetary policy is easier to implement, and labour has an easier time achieving mobility across regions. Accordingly there have been several studies on home price convergence. Some of these previous papers have methodological problems. This paper examines home price convergence across the different regions of the United States using Pesaran’s pairwise approach. This method obviates some of the methodological issues that have plagued previous studies. It also tests with a method that allows for structural breaks in the relationships between regional markets. Overall, it is found that the US housing market is not convergent across regions. Some evidence is found that the high-priced regions of New England and the Pacific exhibit convergence. Analysis of structural change reveals that some of the increase in co-movement between these expensive markets, and the decrease in co-movement between these and other markets, accelerated in the early to mid-1980s. The early 1980s saw major changes in US housing. Financialization, in the form of a greater role for non-depository investors such as real estate investment trusts (REITs), a big take-off in securitization, falling interest rates and more capital from abroad led to greater commodification of housing in terms of movement away from housing’s role as shelter and towards the exchange value of homes. These changes made credit available from new sources. This greater credit, including from global sources, appears to have played a role in creating divergent prices in regions that likely have differing elasticities of housing supply. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 520-538 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1677174 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1677174 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:520-538 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sakura Yamamura Author-X-Name-First: Sakura Author-X-Name-Last: Yamamura Title: Transnational professionals’ socio-spatial venturing out to the Tokyo global city-region Abstract: Global-city research has focused primarily on considering transnational corporations and transnational professionals (TNPs) in economic terms, neglecting the role of TNPs’ specific socio-spatial practices in constituting the transnational space. Although researchers on global city-regions (GCRs) have pointed to the relevance of the larger regions for global cities, little is known about the TNPs moving into such regions, and their socio-spatial patterns within them. On the basis of novel empirical results derived from 45 in-depth interviews with TNPs, this paper sheds a light on patterns of socio-spatial practices in Tokyo, Japan – a well-established, yet unexplored, global city – and its larger GCR. Results show two distinct patterns within the TNPs, that is, the gaijin ghetto and the Pro-Tokyoite patterns. The gaijin ghetto is characterized by a Western-dominated culture and is spatially concentrated within a very small area in the core of Tokyo, with limited extra-urban spots in the GCR. The Pro-Tokyoite pattern is spatially more varied and spread within the larger metropolitan area, reaching into the wider GCR, with social practices and interactions closer to the local peer group. This paper discusses how these socio-spatial patterns are embedded in the global, regional and local spatial settings and it demonstrates that TNPs are in fact venturing out of the city centre into the broader GCR. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 512-519 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1677173 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1677173 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:512-519 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fritz-Julius Grafe Author-X-Name-First: Fritz-Julius Author-X-Name-Last: Grafe Author-Name: Harald A. Mieg Author-X-Name-First: Harald A. Author-X-Name-Last: Mieg Title: Connecting financialization and urbanization: the changing financial ecology of urban infrastructure in the UK Abstract: This paper discusses a conceptual model for critically engaging with the effects of financialization on contemporary cities. The current state of theory on financialization in the urban context focuses foremost on the real estate sector activities, regulatory frameworks and governance structures that enable urban financialization. The paper addresses the calls for a closer examination of the spatial patterns that emerge from these practices. By combining financial ecologies as an analytical tool with infrastructure as a perspective, it provides a conceptual model in order to understand the impacts of financialization on cities. The paper discusses the conceptual model in the context of the introduction of the UK Municipal Bonds Agency. It concludes by outlining some of the spatial effects of the UK’s changing financial ecology of urban infrastructure. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 496-511 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1668291 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1668291 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:496-511 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Evan Cleave Author-X-Name-First: Evan Author-X-Name-Last: Cleave Author-Name: Marcello Vecchio Author-X-Name-First: Marcello Author-X-Name-Last: Vecchio Author-Name: Duncan Spilsbury Author-X-Name-First: Duncan Author-X-Name-Last: Spilsbury Author-Name: Godwin Arku Author-X-Name-First: Godwin Author-X-Name-Last: Arku Title: Manufacturing change and policy response in the contemporary economic landscape: how cities in Ontario, Canada, understand and plan for manufacturing Abstract: Despite its nearly half-century decline in Western countries, manufacturing remains a vital part of local and regional economies. This importance is reflected in the economic development policies of cities, which are struggling to understand the current state of manufacturing and what they should do to either reinforce or replace it. Within the scholarship and practice, however, there is limited understanding of the policies that are adopted and whether they have potential to have a meaningful impact for the cities that adopt them. To address this gap, this research considers the way that manufacturing is contextualized and responded to within the local economic development planning documents of 47 (of 51) cities in Ontario, Canada. Through a comprehensive content analysis, it examines whether there are variations in the way cities approach manufacturing. Based on chi-square analysis, the findings show that there is considerable homogeneity in the way that cities of all sizes are approaching manufacturing, suggesting they are not adequately considering the local context in their policy, and rather focus on more general and previously adopted approaches. However, there is an emerging spatiality to the policy that was identified, which presents cities with a pathway forward to address manufacturing within their local economic development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 469-495 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1668292 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1668292 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:469-495 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francesco Cappellano Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Cappellano Author-Name: Annalisa Rizzo Author-X-Name-First: Annalisa Author-X-Name-Last: Rizzo Title: Economic drivers in cross-border regional innovation systems Abstract: This paper investigates the main forces driving economic integration in cross-border regions (CBRs). Drawing on the proximity framework, it contends that all four forms of proximity need to be stressed in cross-border regional economic integration discourses. The paper is based on a comparison of two cross-border regional contexts in North America, which have been investigated using a survey and semi-structured interviews. Based upon the data collected, the two case studies shed a light on cognitive proximity as an underestimated driver in CBRs. Moreover, the cross-border regional identity as well as the access to a talented workforce emerge as remarkable assets to leverage through appropriate cross-border regional policies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 460-468 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1663256 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1663256 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:460-468 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Georgios Boutsioukis Author-X-Name-First: Georgios Author-X-Name-Last: Boutsioukis Author-Name: Apostolos Fasianos Author-X-Name-First: Apostolos Author-X-Name-Last: Fasianos Author-Name: Yannis Petrohilos-Andrianos Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Petrohilos-Andrianos Title: The spatial distribution of short-term rental listings in Greece: a regional graphic Abstract: The home-sharing economy is growing on a global scale, enabling homeowners to short-term lease through online platforms such as Airbnb. These practices bear both positive and negative externalities at both regional and national levels. Positive externalities include job creation, rises in income and in the dwelling supply for touristic purposes, as well as increase in tax revenues. Negative externalities involve disruptions to local communities by raising rental prices and crowding-out long-term tenants, implying income redistribution from homeowners to renters, and the overall ‘touristification’ of traditional neighbourhoods [Gurran, N. (2018). Global home-sharing, local communities and the Airbnb debate: A planning research agenda. Planning Theory & Practice Planning Theory & Practice, 19(2), 298–304]. The regional graphic in this paper illustrates the fact that short-term listings in Greece are unevenly distributed, mainly concentrated in touristic regions and the capital city, but not in continental areas. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 455-459 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1660210 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1660210 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:455-459 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jiangping Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Jiangping Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Name: Yuling Yang Author-X-Name-First: Yuling Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Chris Webster Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Webster Title: Legacies of European ‘Belt and Road’? Visualizing transport accessibility and its impacts on population distribution Abstract: The ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ was announced in 2013 to better connect China economically, socially and culturally with the world by new transport infrastructures. Before forecasting the long-term impacts of the initiative on economic activities and population, one could learn from history about how transport infrastructures and the corresponding accessibility of different locales they engendered or enhanced might have shaped and reshaped the distribution of the population and economic activities in Europe. Historic maps of transport infrastructures and population statistics were collected from such sources as the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, and the Gridded Population of the World Version 4. By digitizing and synthesizing the maps and statistics, transport accessibility in Europe and its nearby areas was mapped during both the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) and the Middle Ages (1000–1500 AD), as well as the population distribution in Europe and its nearby areas in 2015. The mapping efforts indicated that the transport network changed greatly over time for various reasons, and that transport accessibility is a sufficient but not necessary condition for different locales’ population growth and economic prosperity over time. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 451-454 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1652111 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1652111 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:451-454 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pawel Krasny Author-X-Name-First: Pawel Author-X-Name-Last: Krasny Title: EIB urban loans, metropolitan growth and governance: a quantitative evaluation Abstract: This paper investigates the growth impact of the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) urban loans on metropolitan regions, and whether the observed change is related to the quality of government during the period 2000–10. The approach (Solow growth model) is based on the methods used in the Cohesion Policy assessment literature. The panel data used combine EUROSTAT metropolitan regions and NUTS-2 data with a database on EIB loans from 2000 to 2010. This EIB loans database has never previously been used for ex-post evaluations. To ensure the robustness of the statistical approach, we adjust our standard errors for heteroscedasticity and serial and spatial correlation and control for endogeneity, as well as for spatial spillovers. We find EIB urban lending has a positive and significant impact on growth across most of the estimations. When running the baseline estimations on subsamples and including a variable on the quality of government, EIB urban loans are found to have a negative impact on growth in new member countries and in places with lower quality regional governance. Conversely, having strong institutions seems to further enhance the ability of EIB loans to have a positive impact on growth. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 439-450 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1608850 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1608850 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:439-450 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Calvin Jones Author-X-Name-First: Calvin Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Author-Name: Declan Jordan Author-X-Name-First: Declan Author-X-Name-Last: Jordan Title: Agglomeration, urbanization and competitive performance: the natural experiment of English football Abstract: There are sound theoretical and empirical bases for expecting productivity and innovative benefits for businesses located in large urban areas, and for those located closer to others in the same or related industries. However, the size and precise origin of these effects remain uncertain and complicated by potential endogeneity from businesses’ location choice. English football is proposed as a natural experiment with immobile businesses and evidence is presented from the English Premier League (EPL) that suggests urban scale affects clubs’ relative performance. It is found that teams in larger conurbations perform relatively better, and it is suggested these benefits probably originate from the sport’s novel labour market. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 421-438 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1647794 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1647794 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:421-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Graham Squires Author-X-Name-First: Graham Author-X-Name-Last: Squires Author-Name: Don J. Webber Author-X-Name-First: Don J. Author-X-Name-Last: Webber Title: House price affordability, the global financial crisis and the (ir)relevance of mortgage rates Abstract: Although house prices and wages are both influenced by distinct factors that shape their own evolutions, they are also intrinsically connected through house price affordability. Further, macroeconomic policies centred around adjustments in the mortgage rate are of prime importance in ensuring that the housing market does not overheat. This study contributes to the understanding of the link between housing market affordability and mortgage rates by investigating this association across regions of New Zealand using quarterly data between 2000 and 2017. Applications of trajectory regression reveal that the global financial crisis affected regional house price affordability asymmetrically and there was no statistically significant correlation between house price affordability and mortgage rates. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 405-420 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1643777 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1643777 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:405-420 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Benedict Arko Author-X-Name-First: Benedict Author-X-Name-Last: Arko Title: Understanding power asymmetry in participatory development spaces: Insights from Ghana's Decent Work Programme Abstract: Participatory modes of local economic development are laudable policy aspirations, but are often difficult to cultivate in practice. Thus, attempts by international bodies, such as the International Labour Organization (ILO), to institutionalize participatory development in localities of the Global South have often faced serious implementation challenges. Key to this is the issue of power asymmetry. This study uses Giddens’ notion of duality of structure and draws upon a qualitative case study research of the Ghana Decent Work Programme (GWDP) implemented in Ajumako Enyan Essiam to deepen the understanding of the nature of asymmetric power relations among actors within a participatory development space. The key finding is the dynamic nature of asymmetric power relations. The ensuing asymmetric power relations manifest in the negotiations and contestations that contribute to shaping the trajectory of the participatory development space. The study, therefore, challenges the static notions of asymmetric power relations within participatory development spaces by revealing their fluid properties. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 399-404 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1638298 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1638298 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:399-404 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Qinchang Gui Author-X-Name-First: Qinchang Author-X-Name-Last: Gui Author-Name: Debin Du Author-X-Name-First: Debin Author-X-Name-Last: Du Author-Name: Chengliang Liu Author-X-Name-First: Chengliang Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: The geography of intercity technology transfer networks in China Abstract: In the era of the knowledge economy, the acquisition of exogenous knowledge is understood to be an important strategy for cities in their pursuit of economic growth. The Chinese government has taken measures to foster technology transfer between cities in an effort to promote the flow of knowledge and ideas. Patent transaction data from China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) covering the period 2008–15 are used to visualize the technology transfer map. The maps show that the frequency of inter-city patent transfer is intensifying, and the numbers of cities and city-pairs are increasing rapidly over time. Two key features of the network emerge: first, the dominant role played in the network by several cities that results in a ‘diamond-shaped’ spatial structure that has become more geographically extensive over time; and second, the hub-and-spoke structure of the network with Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen forming first-order hubs of technology transfer. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 395-398 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1627905 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1627905 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:395-398 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Beer Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Author-Name: Sally Weller Author-X-Name-First: Sally Author-X-Name-Last: Weller Author-Name: Tom Barnes Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Barnes Author-Name: Ilke Onur Author-X-Name-First: Ilke Author-X-Name-Last: Onur Author-Name: Julie Ratcliffe Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Ratcliffe Author-Name: David Bailey Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Bailey Author-Name: Markku Sotarauta Author-X-Name-First: Markku Author-X-Name-Last: Sotarauta Title: The urban and regional impacts of plant closures: new methods and perspectives Abstract: Work on large-scale plant closures has provided a rich vein of scholarship and academic debate. This paper articulates a new set of methods and concepts for understanding how large-scale redundancies associated with the closure of manufacturing plants affects society and the economy at the local, regional and national scales. It posits the need for a more comprehensive exercise in data collection and experimentation with previously unused methods, including the application of discrete-choice experiments in order to understand better the choice and decision-making frameworks adopted by affected workers. The paper argues there is a need to integrate community-wide policy responses into the core of the analyses. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 380-394 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1622440 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1622440 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:380-394 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aksel Ersoy Author-X-Name-First: Aksel Author-X-Name-Last: Ersoy Author-Name: Klaus Chaves Alberto Author-X-Name-First: Klaus Chaves Author-X-Name-Last: Alberto Title: Understanding urban infrastructure via big data: the case of Belo Horizonte Abstract: One major impact of the global economic crisis is the way it has deepened inequalities around the world. Infrastructure remains essential within this debate as it provides wider health, economic and environmental benefits for society beyond the conventional calculations of cash returns. With the potential exploration of big data, cities now face challenges as well as opportunities to use a series of static and dynamic datasets. Big data methods are offering new opportunities to design decision-making models for urban planning and management. The combination of social media, census, sensors and traditional data gives a new perspective to solve modern urban challenges through a holistic and inclusive approach. Nevertheless, the BOLD methods are relatively new and have not been applied in the context of urban infrastructure. This paper explores whether BOLD methods can help one reconceptualize urban infrastructure not only with technical and operational characteristics but also with social values in the context of the Global South. To demonstrate, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is used as a case study. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 374-379 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1623068 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1623068 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:374-379 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fabian Braesemann Author-X-Name-First: Fabian Author-X-Name-Last: Braesemann Author-Name: Niklas Stoehr Author-X-Name-First: Niklas Author-X-Name-Last: Stoehr Author-Name: Mark Graham Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Global networks in collaborative programming Abstract: To understand the dynamics of the digital knowledge economy, it is crucial to reveal the geography of global flows of knowledge on digital platforms. This article visualizes a key form of knowledge production in the digital economy: mapping the joint collaborations of users from different cities on Stack Overflow, the world’s most popular question-and-answer website for programming questions. The network map reveals that users from only a limited number of places are actively taking part in the exchange of programming knowledge. While Stack Overflow access and participation are theoretically unrestricted, contributions are clustered in metropolitan regions in North America, Western Europe, and South Asia.CODE AND DATA www.github.com/Braesemann/GlobalProgrammingNetworks Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 371-373 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1588155 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1588155 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:371-373 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicola Pontarollo Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Pontarollo Author-Name: Joselin Segovia Author-X-Name-First: Joselin Author-X-Name-Last: Segovia Title: Unveiling the internal migration dynamics in Ecuador between 2001 and 2010 Abstract: This paper unveils the dynamics of internal migration in Ecuador using data from the last two census. The use of chord diagrams allows one to identify the changing patterns of migration between provinces. In the last period, internal migration decreased notably, and traditional destination provinces lost importance in favour of a more balanced redistribution of people within the country. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 368-370 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1623069 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1623069 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:368-370 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Abigail Cooke Author-X-Name-First: Abigail Author-X-Name-Last: Cooke Title: Uneven land of opportunity: US regional employment futures Abstract: This paper augments our understanding of the geography of work and opportunity in the United States, examining employment projections for a set of occupations deemed to have a particularly ‘bright outlook’ in the coming decade. Drawing labour and feminist geography insights into regional studies, this paper combines several sources of socioeconomic data to examine critically, first, the regional patterns of projected employment; and, second, how good these jobs really are. It finds that access to these jobs will be highly uneven across the United States; many of these jobs pay well below average, often not paying regional living wages; and patterned disadvantages are likely to hamper improved pay and conditions. It is argued that the mismatch between the optimistic rhetoric and the actual empirics shows that deep changes must be made for there to be a bright outlook for US employment futures. The paper concludes with suggestions on regional policy avenues that could improve this outlook. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 357-367 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1621193 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1621193 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:357-367 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bradley Bereitschaft Author-X-Name-First: Bradley Author-X-Name-Last: Bereitschaft Title: Are walkable places tech incubators? Evidence from Nebraska’s ‘Silicon Prairie’ Abstract: This study examines the spatial association between science- and technology-related entrepreneurship and neighbourhood walkability in eastern Nebraska, often referred to as the northern ‘Silicon Prairie’. Tech start-up firms are expected to gravitate toward more walkable or pedestrian-oriented urban locations to benefit from heightened social interaction, knowledge spillovers and a more vibrant, creative atmosphere. Data on start-up firms collected from the online database Crunchbase.com and a walkability index provided by the popular online service Walk Score® were used to evaluate the walkability–tech entrepreneurship nexus. The spatial relationship between walkability and firm location may have important implications for metropolitan areas seeking to incubate new firms and industries in situ, and potentially become leaders in new, innovative industries. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 339-356 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1620631 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1620631 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:339-356 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Benneworth Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Benneworth Author-Name: Rune Dahl Fitjar Author-X-Name-First: Rune Dahl Author-X-Name-Last: Fitjar Title: Contextualizing the role of universities to regional development: introduction to the special issue Abstract: Universities are increasingly expected to provide contributions to regional innovation and economic development processes. Despite much work on how universities can contribute to regional growth processes, there is much less consideration about why universities might choose to engage in regional development. Even though they may receive public funding, universities have no specific duty to engage, and together with recent pressures to internationalize, university regional engagement activities face tensions from these delocalization pressures. This special issue explores four ways in which universities negotiate these tensions in ensuring that their globally focused knowledge creation activities supports local innovation. First, universities can contribute to labour market upskilling, but where there are substantive problems associated with the absorption of those graduates on both the supply and demand sides, there be mismatch and even graduate underemployment. Second, world-class academics may contribute to host regions’ innovation networks, but this depends on local industries’ research and development geography, on individual academics’ motivations as well as highly skilled researchers’ willingness to stay in one region. Third, universities can steer and support academics towards regional engagement, but they risk engagement activities being exclusively oriented towards what high-level strategic actors believe to be important. Finally, universities can raise the quality of regional innovation strategy processes and create collective innovation assets, but are reliant upon grass-roots-change agents that might not necessarily be visible to strategic managers. A better understanding of these four tensions is necessary to deliver practical improvements to university contributions to smart, social and sustainable regional development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 331-338 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1601593 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1601593 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:331-338 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gerwin Evers Author-X-Name-First: Gerwin Author-X-Name-Last: Evers Title: The impact of the establishment of a university in a peripheral region on the local labour market for graduates Abstract: The establishment of a university can be used as policy instrument to revitalize peripheral regions. Such newly established universities tend to experience rapid growth, but little is known about how this affects the labour market for graduates in these regions over time. A quantitative case study, employing individual-level microdata, analyzed changes in the wage levels and mobility of graduates of Aalborg University, which was established in 1974 in the North Denmark region. The analysis shows that the establishment of Aalborg University contributed to the upgrading of the human capital in the region, fulfilling a demand in the labour market, as indicated by wage growth similar to that of the labour market in other regions and a growing percentage of local young people to stay in the region after graduation. Furthermore, the university increased its intake of students from outside the region, who then as graduates dispersed to other parts of the country, thereby serving to supply human capital at the national level. These insights add to our understanding of how a new university can play a role in the economic development of a peripheral region, while at the same time also having impact at the national level. Nevertheless, this instrument is not applicable to all regions in the same way, since local critical mass and regional embeddedness are required to enable a region to absorb a substantial number of graduates and benefit from the presence of the university. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 319-330 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1584051 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1584051 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:319-330 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eloïse Germain-Alamartine Author-X-Name-First: Eloïse Author-X-Name-Last: Germain-Alamartine Title: Doctoral education and employment in the regions: the case of Catalonia Abstract: Even though the doctoral degree was originally designed for an academic career, there is an increasingly important labour market for doctorate holders outside academia, mainly because of a shortage of job opportunities within it. Doctoral degrees are granted only by universities; thus, universities are the only suppliers of the doctoral workforce to the labour market. Understanding the needs of non-academic employers is thus crucial if universities are to adapt their doctoral education curriculum. Many studies have analyzed labour markets for doctorate holders at national and transnational scales, but few studies focus on the regional scale. The present study explores regional data for Catalonia in Spain on the employment situation of doctorate holders in order to define the characteristics of the regional, non-academic labour market for doctorate holders. Descriptive statistics suggest a high retention rate of doctorate holders within the region and a large part of doctorate holders (two-thirds) having a job that does not require a doctoral degree. This study highlights the existence of a skills mismatch that might be linked to the preference for a better paid or more stable job, or to the lack of development of skills that represent added value in the eyes of employers. These characteristics can be formulated as hypotheses to be tested in further qualitative or quantitative studies. They have several implications for universities, non-academic employers and regional policy-makers, such as the need to work on the valorization of the doctoral degree in the non-academic labour market. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 299-318 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1584049 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1584049 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:299-318 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Utku Ali Rıza Alpaydın Author-X-Name-First: Utku Ali Rıza Author-X-Name-Last: Alpaydın Title: Exploring the spatial reach of co-publication partnerships of multinational enterprises: to what extent does geographical proximity matter? Abstract: There is an increasing interest in defining the determinants of university–industry collaborations (UICs). One recent tendency is to embrace the proximity approach while explaining the process of coordination in UICs. Most studies generally take on the role of geographical proximity and try to explain its effects by looking at the universities. These studies try to identify the firms that universities collaborate with and define the determinants of these collaborations in line with the firm characteristics. However, this paper, rather than taking universities as the main unit of analysis, takes a firm-centric approach and examines the co-publication collaborations of a multinational enterprise (MNE) with universities. The paper explores the spatiality of these collaborations and geographical proximity’s influence on the collaboration networks of MNEs. Using the case study of a multisite MNEs’ co-publications with universities through bibliometric data, it provides some refinements about the influence of geographical proximity. The analysis shows that geographical proximity plays a significant role in UICs for MNEs. The findings also indicate that, despite its overall importance, the effects of geographical proximity differ for the branches of the same firm. The collaboration patterns of different units show divergence regarding the share of collaborations at various geographical scales. This suggests that following a more nuanced perspective in UIC studies, dealing with geographical proximity may be useful in clarifying its effects. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 281-298 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1583601 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1583601 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:281-298 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kwadwo Atta-Owusu Author-X-Name-First: Kwadwo Author-X-Name-Last: Atta-Owusu Title: Oasis in the desert? Bridging academics’ collaboration activities as a conduit for global knowledge flows to peripheral regions Abstract: Peripheral regions, like others, require a sustained flow of global knowledge to stimulate innovation and economic growth. Unfortunately, the dearth of innovative firms in these regions hampers foreign knowledge attraction. Nevertheless, academics are recognized as potential agents to perform such a role considering their embeddedness in diverse collaboration ties. As feasible as this may seem, prior research has not thoroughly examined this proposition. This paper, therefore, investigates how the collaboration activities of bridging academics facilitate the flow of knowledge to peripheral regions. Employing a case study of academics in a peripheral region in the Netherlands, it also identifies the mechanisms enhancing knowledge flows. The findings indicate academics tend to have more collaborations with partners in academia and industry than other sectors. Additionally, they use various pathways to establish cooperation relations. Lastly, the mobility of researchers and collaborative projects constitute the widely used channels for knowledge transfer. The implications of these findings for universities and policy-makers include the need to devote particular attention to cooperation ties of faculty; and the assessment of the knowledge needs of organizations in a region and connecting them with academics with the right expertise. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 265-280 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1590230 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1590230 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:265-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rhoda Ahoba-Sam Author-X-Name-First: Rhoda Author-X-Name-Last: Ahoba-Sam Title: Why do academics engage locally? Insights from the University of Stavanger Abstract: The role of individual actors in knowledge-exchange collaborations has been accorded much importance. Through their involvement with industry, innovation is especially enacted in their regions. Motivations for academic engagement have been fairly researched but academics’ motivations for local collaborations remain to be properly understood. The aim of this paper is therefore, to explore the motivations of academics for regional engagement. This exploration is done by drawing on empirical data collected through interviews with 16 academics in the Engineering Faculty of the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. It is evident that in addition to personal motivations to collaborate, academics are driven to engage locally by certain incentives that may be embedded in regionally ‘non-constructed’ advantages. In general, the presence of regional advantages that are relevant for advancing the academic’s research provide the motivation to engage locally. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 250-264 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1583600 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1583600 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:250-264 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maria Salomaa Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Salomaa Title: Third mission and regional context: assessing universities’ entrepreneurial architecture in rural regions Abstract: Universities are expected to contribute to regional development through the ‘third mission’ going beyond traditional academic core functions. Hitherto, the literature has focused on a rather idealistic ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to university engagement, though in reality universities have different ways to carry out third-stream activities. This has been partly explained by geographical factors. Therefore, this paper focuses on how a particular context – in this case a rural region – can shape universities’ institutional responses towards the third mission. A single case study of the University of Lincoln (UK) demonstrates that a rural context has an impact on the way universities develop their entrepreneurial architectures. A contextual element, namely a rural region, was added to the entrepreneurial architecture framework, originally conceptualized by Vorley and Nelles in 2009 to study how the rural context affects the other dimensions of the entrepreneurial architectures framework. Tentative findings from the case study suggest that in rural regions universities face increased expectations to take leadership outside academia in the lack of other local knowledge institutions. The engagement is largely based on personal linkages with external stakeholders instead of a formal collaboration mechanism, while the structures and strategic choices are oriented towards serving the local job market and regional priority sectors. These results imply that a particular context shapes the university’s orientation and institutional responses to third-stream activities, and thus further context-sensitive studies on universities’ entrepreneurial architectures would be beneficial for exploring how universities can efficiently contribute to regional development in different environments. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 233-249 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1586574 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1586574 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:233-249 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ridvan Cinar Author-X-Name-First: Ridvan Author-X-Name-Last: Cinar Title: Delving into social entrepreneurship in universities: is it legitimate yet? Abstract: Universities have recently been pressurized to go beyond their economic conceptualization of third-mission activities and contribute to solving grand societal challenges in the regions in which they are located. Social entrepreneurship has emerged as one mechanism by which universities can address societal challenges. Despite a growing awareness of universities’ potential and expectations to enhance social entrepreneurship in their geographical vicinities, how these processes become legitimized within a higher education context has received surprisingly little attention. This paper, therefore, explores factors affecting the (de)legitimacy process of social entrepreneurship within universities. Using a single case study design that relies on semi-structured interviews carried out in a Dutch public university, it was found that organizational legitimacy of social entrepreneurship remains unestablished. Furthermore, the legitimacy process is affected by (1) the expectations of stakeholders, the difficulty of measuring social impact and third-mission indicators; (2) an overemphasis on high-tech research and application as an organizational identity; (3) the absence of a leader in the field and lack of organizational recognition; and (4) stringent regulations of public institutions in the Netherlands. In addition, enhancing social entrepreneurs is hindered by the lack of place-based belonging among the student body. Consequently, this paper argues that a holistic approach that focuses on the specificities of universities and the increasing competitive environment in which they have come to function, the potential facilitating role of other organizational actors in the field, and designing appropriate policy instruments and incentives would benefit universities in their efforts to enhance social entrepreneurship. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 217-232 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1583602 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1583602 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:217-232 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lisa Nieth Author-X-Name-First: Lisa Author-X-Name-Last: Nieth Title: Understanding the strategic ‘black hole’ in regional innovation coalitions: reflections from the Twente region, eastern Netherlands Abstract: Active coalitions of regional stakeholders are at the heart of contemporary regional economic development policies, such as Smart Specialisation or Constructing Regional Advantage. These coalitions consist of actors from various organizations such as regional authorities, companies and higher education institutions that come together to achieve common agendas and advance their region. Accordingly, the numerous stakeholders are expected to work together seamlessly, build and implement strategies and thereby deliver regional development. However, by assuming that strategy formulation and implementation is straightforward, the challenges that lie within partnerships and the tensions that may arise between stakeholders can become neglected. Therefore, it is vital to understand tensions that drive towards situations in which strategy-building is not successful and ‘black holes’ of strategy-building emerge. By identifying the tensions between regional partners in the Twente region of the Netherlands, the aim is to understand how such stakeholder tensions affect regional development. It is assumed that by easing or resolving these tensions, stakeholder partnerships can contribute to the successful advancement of their region. The data for this qualitative case study are drawn from both research interviews and secondary sources. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 203-216 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1578259 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1578259 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:203-216 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Liliana Fonseca Author-X-Name-First: Liliana Author-X-Name-Last: Fonseca Title: Designing regional development? Exploring the University of Aveiro's role in the innovation policy process Abstract: With growing pressure to contribute to their region's development, universities are increasingly called upon to engage dynamically in innovation policy-making and governance activities. Previous studies suggest in their collaboration with local and regional government that universities can emerge as animateurs, providing guidance, consolidating networks, and ultimately activating institutional and human agency. This is especially important in the context of less-developed regions, where the unlocking of innovative potential may rest on those factors. This paper provides an extended perspective on universities’ engagement in innovation policy processes and, in a broader sense, on the collaboration between these higher education institutions and local and regional government. Through an analysis of the partnership between two Portuguese institutions, the University of Aveiro and the intermunicipal community of the region of Aveiro, this study explores the potential implications on regional innovation policy and the activation of institutional agency in a less-developed context. Policy documents, reports and interview data from 18 academics, top managers, policy-makers and other stakeholders show that while institutional expectations differ, collaborative interplays have boosted the formation and growing effectiveness of regional innovation networks, crucial for the development of less-developed regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 186-202 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1584050 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1584050 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:186-202 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Verena Radinger-Peer Author-X-Name-First: Verena Author-X-Name-Last: Radinger-Peer Title: What influences universities’ regional engagement? A multi-stakeholder perspective applying a Q-methodological approach Abstract: This paper argues that rather than being a process that can be objectively planned or predicted, regional engagement on the part of universities is a learning activity featuring characteristics of a subjective deliberation process. This subjective deliberation process is simultaneously influenced by factors operating at the intra-organizational and regional level, as well as the field in which the university is located. A model that takes this multilevel environment into account is applied to a single case study region: Kaiserslautern (Germany). A Q-methodological approach is employed to reveal and analyze the aforementioned subjective perspectives regarding drivers of universities’ regional engagement. Two key viewpoints emerge from this analysis: one perspective reflects a highly institutionalized reading of regional engagement, and can be traced to the strong policy push to create universities as drivers of regional development in the Palatinate. The second perspective recognizes greater diversity among the various engagement activities pursued by universities beyond this narrow institutional engagement, driven through individual interaction with regional partners. These insights question the widespread pipeline-dominated perspective on universities’ regional engagement and argue for a more systemic understanding of the role of higher education institutions within their region. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 170-185 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1578258 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1578258 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:170-185 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Correction Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 168-169 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1607508 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1607508 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:168-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colleen C. Myles Author-X-Name-First: Colleen C. Author-X-Name-Last: Myles Author-Name: Trina R. Filan Author-X-Name-First: Trina R. Author-X-Name-Last: Filan Title: Making (a) place: wine, society and environment in California's Sierra Nevada foothills Abstract: This paper explores the role of the wine industry, writ large, in place-making via a case study of the wine industry, from ‘grape to glass’, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, which examines how wine production and consumption has influenced the sociocultural and physical–environmental landscape of the region. Using qualitative field methods and secondary data analysis, the paper investigates the impacts of the ‘emerging’ wine industry of the Sierra Nevada foothills by engaging with industry actors at all levels. We find that, while not new, wine grape production and winemaking have become increasingly prominent economically and culturally as evidenced by (in)visible infrastructure and growing direct and indirect contributions to foothill counties’ economies. Moreover, we argue that, in the Sierra Nevada and beyond, wine growing and winemaking provide a powerful mechanism for identity and material landscape production in the area. The pursuit and construction of the Sierra Nevada foothills as ‘wine country’ becomes a means through which the place ‘makes’ itself and, in turn, makes a place for itself across a variety of economic and cultural contexts. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 157-167 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1575764 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1575764 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:157-167 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robbin Deboosere Author-X-Name-First: Robbin Author-X-Name-Last: Deboosere Author-Name: Danielle Jane Kerrigan Author-X-Name-First: Danielle Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Kerrigan Author-Name: David Wachsmuth Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Wachsmuth Author-Name: Ahmed El-Geneidy Author-X-Name-First: Ahmed Author-X-Name-Last: El-Geneidy Title: Location, location and professionalization: a multilevel hedonic analysis of Airbnb listing prices and revenue Abstract: Hedonic modelling techniques have frequently been used to examine real estate valuation, and they have recently started to be applied to short-term rental valuation. Relying on a web-scraped data set of all Airbnb transactions in New York City (NYC) between August 2014 and September 2016, this paper presents the first hedonic regression model of Airbnb to take into account neighbourhood effects and to predict both average price per night and revenue generated by each listing. The model demonstrates that locational factors – above all, transit accessibility to jobs – and neighbourhood variation have a large impact on both price per night and monthly revenue, and further reveals how professionalization of the short-term rental market is driving more revenue to a narrower segment of hosts. Further, the findings suggest that Airbnb hosts earn a significant premium by converting long-term housing in accessible residential neighbourhoods into de facto Airbnb hotels. This premium incentivizes landlords and hosts with properties in accessible neighbourhoods to replace long-term tenants with short-term guests, forcing those in search of housing to less accessible neighbourhoods. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 143-156 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1592699 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1592699 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:143-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Malcolm Campbell Author-X-Name-First: Malcolm Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell Author-Name: Hamish McNair Author-X-Name-First: Hamish Author-X-Name-Last: McNair Author-Name: Michael Mackay Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Mackay Author-Name: Harvey C Perkins Author-X-Name-First: Harvey C Author-X-Name-Last: Perkins Title: Disrupting the regional housing market: Airbnb in New Zealand Abstract: The role of accommodation-sharing platforms, such as Airbnb, is seen as a disruption to more conventional accommodation providers and rental markets in many cities and regions worldwide. This Regional Graphic focuses on New Zealand, showing a snapshot in time of the spatial distribution of the accommodation provided by Airbnb. What the map shows are patterns of statistically significant mildly positive clustering (Moran's I = 0.33, p ≤ 0.05) of the Airbnb locations. The ‘traditional’ tourism hotspots, mainly in the South Island of New Zealand, for example, Wanaka or Queenstown (Queenstown Hill, Lake Hayes South, Sunshine Bay), and the largest city, Auckland (Central West, East, Habourside and Waiheke Island), are shown. A few of the highest ranked places also feature a high intensity per usually resident person. For example, Queenstown Hill has 204 Airbnb listings per 1000 residents. The area with the highest number of Airbnbs is Wanaka, a smaller South Island tourist destination. A key issue for future research is how short-term rentals pose a challenge to local authorities who collect property taxes based on the value of the property, with some local authorities (e.g., Auckland) proposing or enacting specific by-laws in relation to Airbnb. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 139-142 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1588156 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1588156 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:139-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Mulligan Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Mulligan Author-Name: Helena Lenihan Author-X-Name-First: Helena Author-X-Name-Last: Lenihan Author-Name: Justin Doran Author-X-Name-First: Justin Author-X-Name-Last: Doran Title: More subsidies, more innovation? Evaluating whether a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation Abstract: Policy-makers at regional, national and European Union (EU) levels of governance use a variety of subsidy programmes to stimulate firm-level innovation. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates three important issues that have not received sufficient attention in the literature: (1) whether evaluating the impact of subsidies from each individual source is biased by ignoring firms that receive a mix of subsidies from different sources at the same point in time; (2) whether receiving a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation; and (3) if effective, whether subsidy mix stimulates forms of innovation with higher private or social returns. The findings demonstrate that ignoring subsidy mix significantly biases evaluations of subsidies from individual sources. Moreover, subsidy mix can be a highly effective means of stimulating forms of firm-level innovation with the highest social returns, precisely where market and systemic failures are most acute. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 130-138 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1580608 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1580608 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:130-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lorena F. Axinte Author-X-Name-First: Lorena F. Author-X-Name-Last: Axinte Author-Name: Abid Mehmood Author-X-Name-First: Abid Author-X-Name-Last: Mehmood Author-Name: Terry Marsden Author-X-Name-First: Terry Author-X-Name-Last: Marsden Author-Name: Dirk Roep Author-X-Name-First: Dirk Author-X-Name-Last: Roep Title: Regenerative city-regions: a new conceptual framework Abstract: The city-regional scale is increasingly being considered the most suitable level for planning and development, yet city-regions have often been established for purely economic reasons in the UK. This paper argues that city-regions are not mere socioeconomic units through which competitiveness can be achieved, but also rich, socioecological spaces. Although the progressive regionalist literature has taken significant steps in this direction, concerns remain that critical contemporary issues such as environmental sustainability, cultural viability, social exclusion or political (dis)empowerment have not been addressed in a holistic way. We attempt to advance the debate and overcome some of the shortcomings by connecting progressive regionalism with two other literature strands: collaborative governance and regenerative development. Based on the synergies found, we design a conceptual framework that can be used to study, understand and improve policy processes and practice, paving pathways towards regenerative city-regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 117-129 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1584542 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1584542 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:117-129 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Arnault Morisson Author-X-Name-First: Arnault Author-X-Name-Last: Morisson Author-Name: Mathieu Doussineau Author-X-Name-First: Mathieu Author-X-Name-Last: Doussineau Title: Regional innovation governance and place-based policies: design, implementation and implications Abstract: Regions need to tailor their own place-based policies because there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ regional innovation policy framework. Each region is characterized by different institutional capacities related to political, economic and social contexts enabling or constraining the design and implementation of place-based policies. This paper uses an instrumental-use multiple case study approach to explore the design and implementation of place-based policies within the institutional arrangements of four regional innovation agencies (RIAs) established in three different regional contexts inside and outside the European Union: one in the Brainport region (the Netherlands), two in the Basque Country (Spain) and one in Medellín (Colombia). In analyzing the RIAs’ similarities and differences, this paper explores the complexity of designing and implementing place-based innovation policies in different regional innovation systems (RISs) while noting important policy implications for regional innovation governance and institutional arrangements to upgrade RIS in a more systematic manner. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 101-116 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1578257 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1578257 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:101-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Missiaia Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Missiaia Title: One market fits all? Market access and the origins of the Italian north–south divide Abstract: Italy’s economic development since its unification in 1861 has been characterized by extensive regional inequality. Northern regions were the frontrunners of modern industrialization in the late 19th century, while southern regions never closed the gap. New Economic Geography (NEG) proposes market access as the main driver of regional income differentials. But is its effect homogeneous across regions? The NEG hypothesis is here for the first time considered for the north and the south of Italy separately in the period 1871–1911. Following previous work by the author, both domestic and total market potentials are taken into account as possible drivers of regional gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. The results differ for the two macro-areas: in the south, both market potentials have a strong role in determining the levels of GDP per capita, but they do not affect the growth rates from period to period; and in the north, only domestic market potential is significant in both levels and growth rates. These results point to different dynamics at the sub-national level that should be further qualified by extending the analysis from the NUTS-2 to the NUTS-3 level. The policy implication is that market-oriented measures might not be effective for the most disadvantaged regions before other prerequisites for growth are achieved. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 92-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1578256 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1578256 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:92-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Valesca Lima Author-X-Name-First: Valesca Author-X-Name-Last: Lima Title: Towards an understanding of the regional impact of Airbnb in Ireland Abstract: This paper considers the linkages between the home-sharing platform Airbnb and the housing crisis in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), in Ireland. This area is in the midst of a housing crisis, with a significant undersupply of housing units and rising unaffordability, especially the city of Dublin. While the sharing economy, better exemplified here by Airbnb, has become a major part of the global economy, it is less clear what is the regional impact of Airbnb, an online platform that allows people rent out part or all of their home for short stays. Among the claimed benefits for the tourism sector there are concerns that home sharing removes potential housing supply from the private rental sector to the short-term rental sector, which could aggravate the housing shortage. Along these lines, this paper documents this contemporary urban spatial issue, using rental asking prices data and data from Airbnb listings. The study does not intend to criticize the sharing platforms themselves but rather their disruptive impact and the short-term rental market within a digital economy context more widely. It is found that whilst not the only factor for the current housing crisis in Greater Dublin, Airbnb’s presence in the short-term housing is a vivid element of the current housing crisis in the country, which poses challenges for regulators and home seekers. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 78-91 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1562366 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1562366 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:78-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gintarė Pociūtė-Sereikienė Author-X-Name-First: Gintarė Author-X-Name-Last: Pociūtė-Sereikienė Title: Peripheral regions in Lithuania: the results of uneven development Abstract: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lithuania has been struggling with rapidly increasing centre–periphery polarization. There has been a growth in major cities and a significant decline in peripheral rural territories. The ongoing peripheralization is deepening the gap between centre and periphery. This paper introduces a peripheral region determination model, whilst highlighting that this complex geographical issue combines location, demographic, social, economic, cultural, political and natural factors. By analyzing the case of Lithuania using 1992–2012 data at the LAU-1 region level, the study reveals a polarized picture of the country and highlights the factors influencing peripherality in different regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 70-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1571437 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1571437 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:70-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jos van den Broek Author-X-Name-First: Jos Author-X-Name-Last: van den Broek Author-Name: Paul Benneworth Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Benneworth Author-Name: Roel Rutten Author-X-Name-First: Roel Author-X-Name-Last: Rutten Title: Institutionalization of cross-border regional innovation systems: the role of university institutional entrepreneurs Abstract: Cross-border regions are faced with the difficulty that resources for knowledge and innovation may be nearby but difficult to connect to because of the border. Universities could play a supportive role in building innovation environments, facilitating cross-border knowledge exchange. In this research we attempt to understand the systemic roles that universities might play by considering the activities in which they build these cross-border institutional arrangements. We focus upon activities of individual actors, conceptualized as ‘institutional entrepreneurs’. We ask the research question: How can universities through their institutional entrepreneurship activities contribute to the institutionalization of cross-border innovation environments that facilitate cross-border resource access for innovating actors? We address it by developing a conceptual framework for how these institutional entrepreneurs may operate, and identify three repertoires of contributions. We then explore how university actors in a specific cross-border region have built linkages that have acquired a degree of permanence. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 55-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1562367 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1562367 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:55-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tanya Jurado Author-X-Name-First: Tanya Author-X-Name-Last: Jurado Author-Name: Martina Battisti Author-X-Name-First: Martina Author-X-Name-Last: Battisti Title: The evolution of SME policy: the case of New Zealand Abstract: Building on policy process theories, this study constructs a meaningful historical narrative that explains the developments in small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) policy in New Zealand during the period 1978–2008 that marked the point where SME policy was firmly institutionalized as a subsystem within the wider economic policy framework. Temporality is a key characteristic of the policy process and historical accounts are an important means of describing how the process unfolds over time. The enquiry draws on archival sources as well as the personal accounts by individuals who were directly involved in SME policy development. Findings illustrate how the role of SMEs as a policy subsystem develops within an overarching economic policy framework. More specifically, we identify the periods of stability and those of change and what the role of actors, context and events is in this process by highlighting the complexity and interrelated nature of SME policy development. At the time of writing, the foundations of globalization are being called into question. Together with the ever faster rate of technological change, these are important pillars in the predominant political discourses that underpinned the formulation of SME policy during the period of this study. Understanding how SME policy was developed in the past could lead to a better understanding of the role of SME in this new world. As new policy is developed, this study brings to the fore the dynamics of institutional context, policy actors and stakeholders, and the impact they have on policy outcomes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 32-54 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1562368 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1562368 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:32-54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Moritz Breul Author-X-Name-First: Moritz Author-X-Name-Last: Breul Title: Cities in ‘multiple globalizations’: insights from the upstream oil and gas World City Network Abstract: The role of cities in the global economy has been studied extensively for the specific case of advanced producer services. Only recently, studies started to broaden the analytical lens and explore the role of cities in ‘multiple globalizations’ by adding insights from other industries. Apart from showing that different World City Networks (WCNs) are characterized by differing spatial configurations, these studies are incapable of explaining why cities have been articulated into a particular WCN. Building on a case study of Singapore and Jakarta in the WCN of the upstream oil and gas industry, the study demonstrates the potential gained by adding flesh to the study of cities in ‘multiple globalizations’ through qualitative insights. The findings reveal how very different state roles have contributed to the shape of this particular WCN. The paper thereby illustrates how this recent field of research on cities in ‘multiple globalizations’ may advance beyond the mere description of city network structures. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 25-31 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1564628 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1564628 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:25-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francesca Parente Author-X-Name-First: Francesca Author-X-Name-Last: Parente Title: Inequality and social capital in the EU regions: a multidimensional analysis Abstract: This paper focuses on the interactions between social capital and production structure in their relation with regional inequality. Combining survey data with available regional databases for the EU-15, it provides a panel data analysis of multidimensional inequalities based on the idea that social capital is a fundamental factor determining its regional levels, along with the economic specialization of regions. Results confirm an inverse relation between inequality and social capital. At the same time, they highlight the positive impact of production clusters on the regional environment. Findings suggest that the joint effect of predictors is ambiguous, and may so be dependent on the different sorts of local specialization and social capital endowment. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1558105 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2018.1558105 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:1-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alexandru Brad Author-X-Name-First: Alexandru Author-X-Name-Last: Brad Author-Name: Aura Moldovan Author-X-Name-First: Aura Author-X-Name-Last: Moldovan Title: Development frames in peripheralized areas of Romania Abstract: This paper explores the potentials and limits of using European structural and investment (ESI) funds for rural development in one of the least developed areas of Central and Eastern Europe: Romania’s Sălaj county. The research draws on peripheralization as a key theoretical concept and on frame analysis as a heuristic framework for understanding the effects of policy instruments on development capacities in peripheral places. Desk research and semi-structured interviews reveal how local leaders identify the challenges they face and how they articulate development perspectives in relation to available policies. The key findings are twofold. First, that ESI-funded rural development instruments tend to favour place-blind interventions that do little to address peripheries’ economic weakness and lack of institutional capacity. Second, it can be observed that the implementation of ESI funds has so far only marginally stimulated new styles of policy action that shift local actors’ behaviour and expectations of the development policy system. To address growing intra-regional disparities, the case is made for more reflective policy design for strengthening institutional capacities and better integrating peripheries within their regional economies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-9 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1701542 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1701542 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:1-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jean-Paul D. Addie Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Paul D. Author-X-Name-Last: Addie Author-Name: Michael R. Glass Author-X-Name-First: Michael R. Author-X-Name-Last: Glass Author-Name: Jen Nelles Author-X-Name-First: Jen Author-X-Name-Last: Nelles Title: Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: a research agenda Abstract: An interdisciplinary ‘infrastructure turn’ has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to the increased conceptual, geographical and political importance of infrastructure – and endemic issues of access, expertise and governance that the varied provision of infrastructures can cause – this intervention asserts the significance of applying a regional perspective to the infrastructure turn. This paper forwards a critical research agenda for the study of ‘infrastructural regionalisms’ to interrogate: (1) how we study and produce knowledge about infrastructure; (2) how infrastructure is governed across or constrained by jurisdictional boundaries; (3) who drives the construction of regional infrastructural imaginaries; and (4) how individuals and communities differentially experience regional space through infrastructure. Analysing regions through infrastructure provides a novel perspective on the regional question and consequently offers a framework to understand better the implications of the current infrastructure moment for regional spaces worldwide. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 10-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1701543 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1701543 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:10-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adam Whittle Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Whittle Title: Operationalizing the knowledge space: theory, methods and insights for Smart Specialisation Abstract: Focusing explicitly on the regional dimensions of technological change, this paper examines the technological evolution of Irish NUTS-3 regions. Employing an index of average relatedness, it is shown that over an extended 25-year period (1981–2005) that the production of technological knowledge exhibits a strong path dependency whereby regions are technologically predisposed to diversify into those areas of the knowledge space that are proximate to their current specialization. Implications for the Smart Specialisation thesis are then discussed. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 27-34 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1703795 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1703795 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:27-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Arnault Morisson Author-X-Name-First: Arnault Author-X-Name-Last: Morisson Author-Name: Eva Panetti Author-X-Name-First: Eva Author-X-Name-Last: Panetti Title: Institutional entrepreneurs and socio-institutional changes in Medellín, Colombia Abstract: During a period of regional structural change, the socio-institutional structure and the techno-economic structure are temporarily decoupled due to the relative inertia of the former compared with the rapid changes in the latter. The lag in the coevolution of the socio-institutional and techno-economic structures generates inefficiencies and instabilities, causing transitional failure. In exploring the rationale for policy intervention, this paper examines the actors that aim to influence socio-institutional changes in Medellín, Colombia. It finds that the private sector, under the informal leadership of the Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño, has played the role of institutional entrepreneurs to influence socio-institutional changes. In regions located on the knowledge periphery, in which the socio-institutional structure has not yet fully coevolved with the novel techno-economic structure, policy-makers can induce socio-institutional changes by learning from regions that have already transitioned to the novel techno-economic paradigm. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 35-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1703796 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2019.1703796 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:35-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pradeep Kanta Ray Author-X-Name-First: Pradeep Kanta Author-X-Name-Last: Ray Author-Name: Vinish Kathuria Author-X-Name-First: Vinish Author-X-Name-Last: Kathuria Author-Name: Vikas Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Vikas Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Title: Slippery space and sticky places: evidence from the Indian IT industry Abstract: Sweeping changes wrought by globalization and disaggregation of global value chains by multinational companies poses challenges to territorial theories of competitiveness. Contemplating notions propounded by economic geographers and strategic management scholars, the paper examines firm-level competitiveness at the intersection of spatially mobile versus spatially bound geographies. It aims to understand if linkages between actors within sticky local ecosystems are sufficient for firm internationalization from emerging economies. The paper empirically uncovers how cognitive ties at both local and global levels contribute to the internationalization of firms from emerging economies such as India that have a lower level of development and which suffer from institutional voids. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 52-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1718545 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1718545 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:52-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Krzysztof Kluza Author-X-Name-First: Krzysztof Author-X-Name-Last: Kluza Title: When rural boroughs turn into inner peripheries: a link between their socioeconomic characteristics and distance to large cities Abstract: Inhabitants of rural areas are subject to several pressures such as depopulation, income gap and infrastructure scarcities compared with urban areas. An analysis of rural boroughs in Poland is carried at the LAU-2 (NUTS-5) level, based on sustainable development framework indicators with the use of logit models, in order to verify the existence of heterogeneities among rural boroughs caused by metropolitan area spillovers. The research shows that the deconcentration hypothesis holds only for rural boroughs within 40 km of large towns. The remaining rural boroughs have a profile of inner peripheries – they are subject to adverse demographic and development pressures, with limited infrastructure stock and public services availability. These remarkable differences between rural boroughs imply the need for a reconsideration of the criteria for regional Cohesion Policies. Namely, more location-dependent regional policy instruments should be designed instead of the currently prevailing approach based on NUTS-2 criteria. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 75-91 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1733437 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1733437 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:75-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marlen Komorowski Author-X-Name-First: Marlen Author-X-Name-Last: Komorowski Title: Identifying industry clusters: a critical analysis of the most commonly used methods Abstract: This paper analyses the most commonly used methods to identify industry clusters by applying them to Brussels’ media industry data. The results are compared and benefits as well as limitations are highlighted. The resulting implications for industry cluster research and policy-making are subsequently discussed. It is found that a mixed-methods approach (compared with the application of a single method) can reveal important patterns of industry cluster formation, and that future research should make purpose-driven choices on methods based on known limitations and benefits within the research process. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 92-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1733436 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1733436 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:92-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: IJsbrand Heeringa Author-X-Name-First: IJsbrand Author-X-Name-Last: Heeringa Title: Regional shrinkage and planning policy change in Europe: the case of Asturias Abstract: Shrinkage requires planners to move away from growth-oriented planning towards an adaptive approach. It is puzzling that even after decades of shrinkage, planners can still be stuck with a growth mindset that results in wasted resources and little gain. Existing research has done little to comprehend why planning policy adapts so slowly to shrinkage. The article revolves around the question: What shapes planning policy in shrinking regions? This question is addressed through a case study conducted in the Spanish region of Asturias. The study makes a first analysis of how ideas, interests and institutions influence policy change in shrinking regions. It finds that institutional structures and local interests can be serious obstacles to the adoption of adaptive planning approaches. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 101-107 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1741435 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1741435 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:101-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paolo De Martino Author-X-Name-First: Paolo Author-X-Name-Last: De Martino Title: Defending the past by challenging the future: spatial and institutional path dependencies in the Naples port-city region Abstract: Historical paths matter in port-city regions. Here, spatial patterns and governance arrangements are path dependent to the point that once certain paths have been established, these become hard to change. This defines a condition of institutional inertia that plays a significant role in preventing any form of spatial change. Naples is an exemplar of how different actors have historically developed their own routines and planning tools, resulting in the spatial and governance separation still visible today. How do path dependencies influence the port–city (and regional) relationship we are experiencing today? Nowadays, ports operate in an increasingly changing environment where spatial and economic developments can be better understood as the results of actors’ interactions across different scales. In order to cope with global urgencies, such as energy, economic and societal transition, European infrastructure policies are driving many port authorities towards infrastructural integration and governance cooperation. This offers significant opportunities to improve relations among ports, but it mostly leaves out the interconnections with cities and larger regions. Moreover, it also challenges consolidated beliefs and planning cultures which have planned ports and cities as disconnected entities, at least since industrialization. In Naples, local and national authorities find it difficult to define a sustainable consistency of interests. Today, the Central Tyrrhenian seaport system is the new institutional umbrella overseeing the three main ports of the region: Naples, Castellammare di Stabia and Salerno. This paper investigates whether this new governance entity results in either an opportunity for change or a reinforcement of existing path dependencies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 108-117 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1746193 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1746193 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:108-117 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joan Marta Author-X-Name-First: Joan Author-X-Name-Last: Marta Author-Name: Akhmad Fauzi Author-X-Name-First: Akhmad Author-X-Name-Last: Fauzi Author-Name: Bambang Juanda Author-X-Name-First: Bambang Author-X-Name-Last: Juanda Author-Name: Ernan Rustiadi Author-X-Name-First: Ernan Author-X-Name-Last: Rustiadi Title: Understanding migration motives and its impact on household welfare: evidence from rural–urban migration in Indonesia Abstract: Rural–urban migration is a common demographic phenomenon in developing countries. Over the last four decades, Indonesia has had the highest rate of urbanization among Asian countries, which has been driven primarily by rural–urban migration. This type of migration has strong economic and social impacts on individuals at both the origins and the destinations. The study analyses the patterns and impacts of rural–urban migration based on the migration motives of rural households. The difference-in-differences approach is applied to identify migration’s impact on the welfare of migrant households in rural areas based on migration motives. The study uses Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) data from 2007 and 2014, which consists of 2007 household samples spread over 13 provinces. Migration is found to have a positive and significant impact on migrant household welfare based on investment motives, but an insignificant result regarding the impact of migration based on risk-coping motives. Also found is the difference in migration patterns between the two migration motives. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 118-132 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1746194 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1746194 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:118-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giuseppe Umberto Cantafio Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Umberto Author-X-Name-Last: Cantafio Author-Name: Sherry Ryan Author-X-Name-First: Sherry Author-X-Name-Last: Ryan Title: Incorporating innovation metrics in urban indices: the Sustain-LED Index Abstract: This study explores a tool used to assess economic development, technological innovation, environmental sustainability and liveability in urban areas. The research employs qualitative and quantitative analysis in the development of an index – the Sustainability–Innovation–Local Economic Development Index (Sustain-LED Index) – that considers macroeconomic and environmental indicators and associated policies implemented in the largest US metropolitan areas. The Sustain-LED Index could broaden the range of tools available to policy-makers for identifying and removing obstacles for improving the quality of life, reducing inequalities and diminishing the degree of pollution in urban areas. It could represent a supporting tool for local entities to design new policies for spurring local economic development and it could be used for designing new urban policies throughout a greater understanding of the economic, social and environmental consequences caused by urbanization. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 133-163 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1760731 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1760731 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:133-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maximilian Benner Author-X-Name-First: Maximilian Author-X-Name-Last: Benner Title: Mitigating human agency in regional development: the behavioural side of policy processes Abstract: In recent decades, regional development has seen a wave of collective policy-making processes such as the European smart specialization approach or participatory approaches to tourism strategy formulation. These processes are confronted by several challenges based on behavioural patterns related to human agency. This paper conceptualizes collective regional policy-making processes in a behavioural perspective. It argues that concepts known from behavioural economics can contribute to our understanding of the agency-related challenges in collective regional policy-making processes, and that mitigating the role of human agency can help overcome these behavioural challenges. Case studies from three Austrian provinces show how major challenges to collective policy-making processes can be explained behaviourally, and how these challenges can be countered by mitigating strategies that employ expertise, moderation, indirect participation, delegation of prioritization and evidence. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 164-182 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1760732 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1760732 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:164-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nadine Kiessling Author-X-Name-First: Nadine Author-X-Name-Last: Kiessling Author-Name: Marco Pütz Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Pütz Title: Assessing the regional governance capacities of spatial planning: the case of the canton of Zurich Abstract: Many countries use spatial planning instruments to coordinate interests in land use and influence land-use change. In Switzerland, the cantonal structure plan (kantonale Richtplan) serves as the main spatial planning instrument at the cantonal level. Coordinating land-use interests and influencing land-use change requires ‘regional governance capacities’. This paper presents an analytical concept of regional governance capacities in spatial planning using the policy arrangement approach and drawing from the spatial planning implementation and evaluation literature. The canton of Zurich, with its embedded cases on the regional and local levels, serves as the case study for testing the analytical concept. Empirical evidence from qualitative interviews, observations and document analyses reveals a coexistence of various regional governance capacities within the canton of Zurich. Whereas regional governance capacities regarding the promotion of inner development in urban areas emerge as high, the results unveil mixed regional governance capacities when it comes to coordinating transport and land-use planning. To make judgements about regional governance capacities in spatial planning, it is essential to observe various spatial challenges, spatial scales and local examples. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 183-205 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1776631 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1776631 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:183-205 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Valentina Cattivelli Author-X-Name-First: Valentina Author-X-Name-Last: Cattivelli Title: The urban gardens in South Tyrol (IT): spatial distribution and some considerations about their role on mitigating the effects of ageing and urbanization Abstract: Interest in urban gardening is growing as a means of enhancing social contact and reusing urban spaces. This practice in fact has positive effects in social and environmental terms. Positive effects include the increased social integration of people at risk of exclusion (elderly people, above all), the reduction of anthropic pressure on natural resources (the soil in particular) as well as the green requalification of vacant spaces. Because of these effects, urban gardening has spread especially in extensively urbanized and metropolitan areas where land consumption and pollution are more intensive, and also social distress and loneliness are more diffuse. Milan, New York and Barcelona are just a few examples of large metropolises where urban gardening is widely spread. On the contrary, urban gardens are not very common in mountainous areas, within which the reduced anthropic pressure and the permanence of communities of people who still help each other act as inhibitors. The regional graphic in this paper illustrates the spatial distribution of urban gardens in South Tyrol, a mountainous region in the north of Italy. Here, urban gardens are few and unevenly distributed. They are mainly concentrated in large municipalities and the provincial capital situated at a relatively low altitude above sea level (five of the eight municipalities with urban gardens which have answered to the investigation are situated on average at 250 m). They are absent in mountain municipalities above higher altitudes (from 1000 m upwards). Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 206-209 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1770121 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1770121 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:206-209 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wei Chen Author-X-Name-First: Wei Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Nyuying Wang Author-X-Name-First: Nyuying Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Zhigao Liu Author-X-Name-First: Zhigao Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: Mapping disciplinary differences of knowledge production and collaboration networks in China Abstract: The knowledge economy – defined here as production and services based on knowledge intensive activities – is widely recognized to have accelerated knowledge production and spillovers through a deepening of collaborative networks that can extend over extensive geographical distances. However, limited by data availability, the geography of China’s knowledge production and collaborative networks, segmented by different disciplines, has been little studied in economic geography or innovation studies. This paper draws on data on academic publications that were extracted from the China Academic Journal Network Publishing Database (CAJD) in order to construct knowledge production and collaboration networks for different disciplines in China. The results depict a series of maps that show that: (1) the ‘hard’ sciences (natural sciences and engineering) outperform much more than the ‘soft’ sciences (humanities and social sciences) both in article number and collaboration strength; and (2) large metropolises have overwhelming advantages in the terms of both paper production and the collaboration strength for all disciplines, despite varying among different disciplines. These uneven geographical patterns can be partially attributed to a high concentration of scientific resources in a few large cities, which was inherited from the Maoist period. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 210-213 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1771201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1771201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:210-213 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fritz-Julius Grafe Author-X-Name-First: Fritz-Julius Author-X-Name-Last: Grafe Title: Finance, water infrastructure, and the city: comparing impacts of financialization in London and Mumbai Abstract: This paper examines how financialization changes the financial ecologies of urban water infrastructure provision, and the consequences of these impacts. It begins by illustrating the current state of research on the financialization of infrastructure, and then details the method for contributing towards this literature. A comparative approach, based on the financial ecologies of urban infrastructure, is introduced and explained. The changing financial ecologies of London (UK) and Mumbai (India) are presented by means of a twin approach that examines, on the one hand, new state-level initiatives that introduce municipal bonds into their respective countries, and, on the other, highly individualized financial constructs that aim to enable similar, large water infrastructure projects in the two cities. The findings include the importance of local knowledge and the expertise needed to translate these knowledges/risks between actors in the financial ecology. Faults in these processes lead to compromised decision-making, which is largely enabled by weak oversight. Closer scrutiny and more transparent tendering processes are recommended as policy tools to overcome these shortcomings. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 214-231 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1778515 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1778515 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:214-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Hearne Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Hearne Title: A spatial analysis of the Brexit vote in the West Midlands Abstract: Recent votes for populist parties and policies have been a focus for an increasingly significant body of academic research. In the UK this has particularly focused research on the drivers of the vote to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. In spite of a growing body of work on the subject, the literature investigating the applicability of spatial econometric methods is surprisingly thin. This paper applies such methods to hitherto unused data for the West Midlands region, where we have an unusually rich set of small-area results. The work finds substantial spatial autocorrelation even after demographic differences are accounted for. Whilst focusing on a particular region, the rise of populism globally gives these findings a wider salience. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 232-243 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1782255 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1782255 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:232-243 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Javier García-Estévez Author-X-Name-First: Javier Author-X-Name-Last: García-Estévez Author-Name: Néstor Duch-Brown Author-X-Name-First: Néstor Author-X-Name-Last: Duch-Brown Title: The relationship between new universities and new firms: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in Spain Abstract: We examine whether establishing a new university (or faculty) in a region affects new firm creation within that given region. We identified a quasi-experimental design based on Spain’s 1983 University Reform Act, which opened the door to founding new universities at the regional level. We use a generalized difference-in-difference model to estimate this relationship. The results indicate that establishing a new university has a significant positive effect on new firm creation. We then introduce an analysis by the field of knowledge of the created university/faculty and the creation of firms in different categories of sectors defined according to their research and development intensity. In this case, the results show that creating a new university/faculty has a significant positive effect on firm formation in medium-high- and medium-low-technology manufacturing as well as in knowledge-intensive market and financial services. Moreover, creating a health faculty has a significant positive effect on new firm formation in the high-tech manufacturing sector. Finally, the results indicate ambiguous results from different sources of agglomeration economies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 244-266 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1784778 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1784778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:244-266 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Mulligan Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Mulligan Author-Name: Marta Zieba Author-X-Name-First: Marta Author-X-Name-Last: Zieba Title: Well-being and unemployment during the Great Recession: an empirical analysis across UK local authority districts Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between unemployment and psychological well-being before and during the Great Recession across 249 UK local authority districts (LADs). Substantial evidence demonstrates that unemployment has a large negative effect on psychological well-being. However, unique social norms develop in geographical areas with high unemployment rates, which significantly reduce the negative impact of unemployment on well-being. Though the post-2007 Great Recession period was characterized by widespread unemployment, few studies have examined the impact of this crisis on well-being in high- and low-unemployment local areas. The analysis constructs a rich panel data set which follows 15,798 individuals from 1998 to 2014, and applies difference-in-differences fixed-effects and general method of moments estimators. The findings indicate that unemployment had a large negative impact on psychological well-being. However, the magnitude of this effect did not change (or was even slightly lower) during the Great Recession. Furthermore, the unemployment social norm also ceased to have any additional effect on well-being during the Great Recession in high-unemployment LADs, as opposed to the pre-recession period. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 267-287 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1784779 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1784779 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:267-287 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Franziska Sielker Author-X-Name-First: Franziska Author-X-Name-Last: Sielker Author-Name: Elisabeth Kaufmann Author-X-Name-First: Elisabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Kaufmann Title: The influence of the Belt and Road Initiative in Europe Abstract: This paper contributes to the growing body of literature aimed at understanding the wide-ranging implications of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by displaying the variety of contractual, formal and informal arrangements that China has entered with European states on a bilateral basis. Almost all European states have entered into one or another form of formal cooperation under the disguise of the BRI. In general, Eastern European states tend to have the highest degree of formal cooperation as official BRI members, whereas the picture is more diverse in the North-West of Europe. Cooperation ranges from investment-based infrastructure projects to joint financial investments, as well as projects in education or health. This complicated puzzle of arrangements ultimately favours China’s influence and will change Europe’s interconnectedness with China beyond transport connectivity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 288-291 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1790411 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1790411 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:288-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hiroshi Ito Author-X-Name-First: Hiroshi Author-X-Name-Last: Ito Author-Name: Chisato Igano Author-X-Name-First: Chisato Author-X-Name-Last: Igano Title: Place-based environmental education to promote eco-initiatives: the case of Yokohama, Japan Abstract: Due to its rapid population growth and urban development, the environment of Yokohama in Japan has significantly degraded. In response, substantial efforts have been made to address socio-environmental issues. One such initiative was a programme called G-30. Implemented in 2005, it aimed to reduce 30% of the amount of garbage waste by 2010, in comparison with that of 2001, by promoting ‘Recycle, Reduce, and Reuse’ (3Rs). Ultimately, the city reduced 43% of its garbage waste during that period. The Japanese government designated the city as one of the Environmental Model Cities in 2008, Environmental Future Cities in 2011 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Future Cities in 2018, while the World Bank recognized it as one of the Eco2Cities in 2010. A place-based environmental education tool called the eco-picture diary has significantly contributed to the success of the G-30 programme and the designation of the above-stated eco-initiatives. Through documentation research and a series of interviews with stakeholders, the current study examines the eco-picture diary and its potential roles in promoting eco-initiatives, applying the change theory for place-based education. Findings suggest that the eco-picture diary, as a place-based environmental education tool, can promote eco-initiatives by broadening and deepening community social capital. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 292-308 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1794950 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1794950 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:292-308 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jacob Salder Author-X-Name-First: Jacob Author-X-Name-Last: Salder Title: Building regional ‘goodwill’: on the financialization of subnational economic governance Abstract: Subnational economic governance has witnessed ongoing transformation as part of what is argued as a financialization of the policy process. Within England, recent reform has seen two specific tendencies: a transformation attempting greater integration between industrial structure and subnational spaces; and more entrepreneurial practices incorporating businesses as key actors. Here, city-regional agglomeration models have been adopted to activate internal resource. This paper explores the effect of these changes on policy continuity amongst constituent parts of the city-region through the concept of goodwill. It focuses on the Greater Birmingham and Solihull region of the UK and its relationship with a constituent locality: Southern Staffordshire. It argues reform has redrawn the subnational map with greater sensitivity around industrial structure. Adapting modes of financializing the governance process, however, using city-regions’ presumed benefits around competitiveness and efficiency, frame this sensitivity. A form of goodwill has thus emerged founded around compliance with orthodox city-regional interpretations, supplementing financial shortfalls yet reinforcing further space–policy separation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 309-317 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1794949 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1794949 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:309-317 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mariachiara Barzotto Author-X-Name-First: Mariachiara Author-X-Name-Last: Barzotto Author-Name: Carlo Corradini Author-X-Name-First: Carlo Author-X-Name-Last: Corradini Author-Name: Felicia Fai Author-X-Name-First: Felicia Author-X-Name-Last: Fai Author-Name: Sandrine Labory Author-X-Name-First: Sandrine Author-X-Name-Last: Labory Author-Name: Philip R. Tomlinson Author-X-Name-First: Philip R. Author-X-Name-Last: Tomlinson Title: Smart specialisation, Industry 4.0 and lagging regions: some directions for policy Abstract: At the heart of the European Union’s innovation policy is Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) as embodied in the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) programme. So far, RIS3’s efficacy on the revival of so-called lagging regions has been weak. This is in large part due to the weak initial endowments of technology, social/business networks, poor governance and institutional failures that typify lagging regions. This combination inhibits both the effectiveness of the programme and the ability of lagging regions to take advantage of the new opportunities proffered by Industry 4.0. This paper highlights some of these challenges and presents some policy directions for S3 and Industry 4.0 to deliver better regional cohesion and enhance inclusive growth. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 318-332 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1803124 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1803124 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:318-332 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eman Zied Abozied Author-X-Name-First: Eman Author-X-Name-Last: Zied Abozied Author-Name: Alice Vialard Author-X-Name-First: Alice Author-X-Name-Last: Vialard Title: Reintegrating informal settlements into the Greater Cairo Region of Egypt through the regional highway network Abstract: This study analyses informal settlements and the regional highway network in the Greater Cairo Region of Egypt to propose alternatives to reduce regional spatial fragmentation that may lead to spatial segregation. Findings indicate that the street structure of informal settlements provides a configuration that supports social interaction for their residents. While the regional highway network can act to physically disconnect the wider region by isolating or splitting neighbourhoods, some highways can act as an integrator. Analysis at the urban scale can identify points in the settlements’ street networks where they can be connected to the regional transport network, which could have an impact on regional consolidation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 333-345 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1804443 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1804443 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:333-345 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Györgyi Nyikos Author-X-Name-First: Györgyi Author-X-Name-Last: Nyikos Author-Name: Attila Béres Author-X-Name-First: Attila Author-X-Name-Last: Béres Author-Name: Tamás Laposa Author-X-Name-First: Tamás Author-X-Name-Last: Laposa Title: Micro-economic effects of public funds on enterprises in Hungary Abstract: To enhance the effectiveness of and return on public investments, using financial instruments in addition to grants has lately become an increasingly preferred policy instrument choice in Central and Eastern Europe. The paper examines the impact different financial tools bring about at a micro-level. This enables recommendations for policy-makers to be produced on the type of assistance that could be of best use to improve access to finance for micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, and thus achieve long-term, sustainable economic growth. The analysis is based on counterfactual evaluation and difference-in-differences. The findings indicate that the use of European Union funds (both grants and financial instruments) has a beneficial influence on employment and sales. However, the results also illustrate that in order to achieve the goal of higher impact and certain productivity effects, subsidies should be allocated to the initially less productive small firms in the less developed regions. Another important outcome is that, to some extent, financing through financial instruments has more direct relevance to advanced productivity, and due to their revolving nature, they generate more positive impact on the Hungarian economy than do grants. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 346-361 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1805351 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1805351 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:346-361 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk Author-X-Name-First: Justyna Author-X-Name-Last: Chodkowska-Miszczuk Author-Name: Stanislav Martinat Author-X-Name-First: Stanislav Author-X-Name-Last: Martinat Author-Name: Marián Kulla Author-X-Name-First: Marián Author-X-Name-Last: Kulla Author-Name: Ladislav Novotný Author-X-Name-First: Ladislav Author-X-Name-Last: Novotný Title: Renewables projects in peripheries: determinants, challenges and perspectives of biogas plants – insights from Central European countries Abstract: Biogas energy has been introduced into Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) through various incentives after their accession to the European Union in 2004. This paper contributes to an understanding of the determinants, challenges and perspectives of agricultural biogas plants in three CEECs (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic). Using a combination of quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (semi-structured interviews) methods, it particularly addresses varieties in public support for biogas sectors, how the relationships between biogas plants as new energy entities and their locations in rural peripheries are constructed, and how the operation of biogas plants influences local rural development. We found that as a result of various agriculture and agricultural policies in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the second half of the 20th century, the preconditions for the incorporation of agricultural biogas plants into agriculture and rural space generally differ significantly. While in the Czech Republic and Slovakia agricultural biogas plants were usually established within large-scale agricultural farms, in Poland these are rather located off-farm. The most profound challenge for today’s biogas plants in all the CEECs studied lies in the transition from direct public incentives to a more self-sufficient business-oriented model focused on cooperation, participation and the involvement of local stakeholders in decision-making, as well as the energy utilization of locally generated agricultural waste and biowaste from households. By accommodation of these principles, agricultural biogas plants in CEECs might become a more useful and sustainable element of the rural energy transition. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 362-381 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1807399 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1807399 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:362-381 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jiaoe Wang Author-X-Name-First: Jiaoe Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Jie Huang Author-X-Name-First: Jie Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Fangye Du Author-X-Name-First: Fangye Author-X-Name-Last: Du Title: Estimating spatial patterns of commute mode preference in Beijing Abstract: In the era of big data, multiple data sources have been employed in the study of land use and transportation for urban and regional planning purposes. This paper offers an example of how multiple data sources (e.g., mobile signalling data, taxi trips and transit trips from smartcard data) can be used to estimate the spatial pattern of commute mode preference in Beijing, China. The comparative analysis investigates the spatial pattern of commute mode preference by taxi at a fine resolution in Beijing. This work indicates how the preference for taxis can be seen in the north-east of the inner city, but not around employment centres. Equally, a complementary relationship is found between a preference for taxis and public transit that provides useful insights into modal choice at an intra-urban scale. These findings are useful in urban planning and transport management. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 382-386 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1806104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1806104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:382-386 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sebastian Losacker Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Losacker Title: The geography of green technology licensing in China Abstract: Heatmap techniques are used to visualize the geography of green technology license agreements in China. The map is based on unique patent and licensing data, linking regional technology development (licensors) to regional technology adoption (licensees), thus allowing the study of diffusion patterns of green technologies. It highlights the fact that most green technology license agreements are concluded within the same region, which is often neglected when studying diffusion processes from a network perspective. Heatmaps allow a better interpretation of network data, in particular for networks with many loops when compared with classical network visualizations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 387-389 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1809507 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1809507 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:387-389 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francisco Rowe Author-X-Name-First: Francisco Author-X-Name-Last: Rowe Author-Name: Nikos Patias Author-X-Name-First: Nikos Author-X-Name-Last: Patias Title: Mapping the spatial patterns of internal migration in Europe Abstract: Internal migration has replaced fertility and mortality as the primary demographic process shaping the spatial distribution of populations within countries. While a rich comparative literature has examined the intensity, composition and spatial impacts of population movement in Europe, the spatial structure of internal migration flows is less well understood. We present a flow map of internal migration flows within 38 European countries using the most recent data available. The graphic reveals the major role of national capital cities in the internal migration system, and an array of distinctive patterns of internal migration fostering population concentration in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, and population deconcentration in Western and Southern Europe. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 390-393 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1811139 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1811139 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:390-393 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luis Ángel Hierro-Recio Author-X-Name-First: Luis Ángel Author-X-Name-Last: Hierro-Recio Author-Name: Pedro Atienza-Montero Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Atienza-Montero Author-Name: María Varo-Morales Author-X-Name-First: María Author-X-Name-Last: Varo-Morales Author-Name: Antonio José Garzón-Gordón Author-X-Name-First: Antonio José Author-X-Name-Last: Garzón-Gordón Title: Determinants of fuel prices: dominant firms, local monopolies and ‘captive’ demand Abstract: This paper analyses the effect on retail fuel prices of factors such as belonging to dominant firms, the position of a local monopoly or oligopoly, and service station location. We study the effect of belonging to the dominant firms in the market, Repsol and Cepsa, of enjoying a local natural monopoly or oligopoly in rural areas, and of being located in places with captive demand, such as highways and motorways, as well as in the city centre. We apply this study to service stations in the province of Seville (Spain). The main findings are that the two main distributors, Repsol and Cepsa, set a higher price. We also find market power at a local level, which appears through monopoly or duopolies in rural areas, and which also results in higher prices, albeit to a much lesser degree. In addition, we see that stations servicing users on high-capacity roads as well as stations located in Seville city centre also set higher prices. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 394-411 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1811138 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1811138 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:394-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Beata Namyślak Author-X-Name-First: Beata Author-X-Name-Last: Namyślak Title: Barriers to the development of creative clusters in Poland Abstract: Creativity is one of the factors promoting the development of urban centres. Its significance provokes discussion on issues such as the creative city, creative industries and creative clusters, and it contributes to the increased demand for multidisciplinary research on economic, social and artistic policy. The paper is devoted to creative industries clusters located in Poland. Its main goal is to identify the factors that hinder the operation of the analysed clusters. The observed factors are broken down into endogenous and exogenous ones, as well as into those that emerged during cluster mobilization and others which surfaced later during the clusters’ existence. The survey was conducted among creative cluster coordinators, using computer-assisted web interview (CAWI) and computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). The results show that most of the problems mentioned by respondents are internal factors, of which the most important one is a misunderstanding of the idea of clustering and the resulting reluctance to share knowledge, as well as the dominance of competition over cooperation, frowned-upon movements of employees between cluster participants, and the consequent diminished trust. External barriers were revealed mainly in further periods of the clusters’ operation. The most important of them was a dependence on external funding. Respondents pointed to a lack of interest on the part of local government units, which makes it difficult to build a properly functioning triple helix. It should also be added that cluster policy in Poland has been moving away from clusters understood in geographical terms where spatial concentration and economic specialization were the key features. Currently, cluster policy is directed more towards managing cluster structures. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 412-427 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1814853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1814853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:412-427 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Douglas Belleville Author-X-Name-First: Douglas Author-X-Name-Last: Belleville Author-Name: Richard J. Cebula Author-X-Name-First: Richard J. Author-X-Name-Last: Cebula Author-Name: G. Jason Jolley Author-X-Name-First: G. Jason Author-X-Name-Last: Jolley Author-Name: Clara Bone Author-X-Name-First: Clara Author-X-Name-Last: Bone Title: COVID-19-related jock tax revenue losses in US states Abstract: The rise of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus led to the postponement, and possible cancellation, of the remainder of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2019–20 season. Major League Baseball's (MLB) (2020 season) and the National Football League's (NFL) (2020–21) seasons may be cancelled too. This empirical note estimates the loss of jock tax revenue to US states and the District of Columbia as a result of the potential cancellations of the remainder of the NBA and the entire MLB and NFL seasons, respectively. It finds that US states (along with the District of Columbia) stand to lose a combined nearly US$307 million in jock tax collections if the MLB and NFL seasons are cancelled and the suspended NBA regular season games are not made up due to the COVID-19 crisis. To our knowledge, this study provides the first state-by-state calculation of jock tax collections at the state/non-federal jurisdictional level. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 428-430 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1820901 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1820901 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:428-430 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fiona McKenzie Author-X-Name-First: Fiona Author-X-Name-Last: McKenzie Author-Name: Markku Sotarauta Author-X-Name-First: Markku Author-X-Name-Last: Sotarauta Author-Name: Jiří Blažek Author-X-Name-First: Jiří Author-X-Name-Last: Blažek Author-Name: Andrew Beer Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Author-Name: Sarah Ayres Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Ayres Title: Towards research impact: using place-based policy to develop new research methods for bridging the academic/policy divide Abstract: There is increasing pressure on academics to show the impact of their research. At the same time, policy-makers are expected to draw upon a wide base of evidence, including academic research, to develop innovative solutions to often intractable societal problems. Despite these complementary objectives of impact and use of evidence, the relationship between academics and policy-makers is often difficult. Some have characterized these groups as ‘two worlds’, each with differing objectives, methods and timeframes. This paper explores the issues associated with this problem and outlines a new approach to research which seeks to engage both government agencies and academics. It makes use of a publishing initiative of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) to produce research that is of value to both government officials and academic researchers. This method aimed to develop a shared understanding with the potential to benefit both groups. While the focus of the research was on place-based regional policy, comparable methods could be applied to many other questions of interest to both governments and researchers working in regional studies and other social science fields. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 431-444 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1825117 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1825117 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:431-444 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: María Elena Méndez López Author-X-Name-First: María Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Méndez López Author-Name: Anna Pujadas Botey Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Pujadas Botey Author-Name: Alicia Castillo Author-X-Name-First: Alicia Author-X-Name-Last: Castillo Title: Analysing participation from a retrospective approach: the Ecological Land Use Planning Program of the Jalisco Coast (ELUPPJC), Mexico Abstract: Social participation has become a relevant topic in environmental agendas in recent decades. The first Ecological Land Use Planning Program (ELUPP) implemented in Mexico under a participatory approach was the ELUPP of the Jalisco Coast (ELUPPJC), decreed in 1999. This paper analyses participatory processes in the ELUPPJC from a long-term perspective to identify obstacles to their implementation from the perspective of different stakeholders. Data were obtained through document analysis and semi-structured interviews, first in 2001 shortly after the ELUPPJC was decreed, and subsequently in 2015 after decisions had already been taken based on the ELUPPJC. The findings show that the factors currently limiting social participation are similar to those identified in 2001. These limitations are related mainly to the lack of dialogue and negotiation among stakeholders. The adoption of bottom-up strategies to build local ELUPPs by some of the communities in the study site provides an essential lesson for participatory processes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 445-462 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1825116 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1825116 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:445-462 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gianpiero Torrisi Author-X-Name-First: Gianpiero Author-X-Name-Last: Torrisi Title: COVID: everything is better when everything is worse? A comparative analysis of testing, death rate and life expectancy across Italian regions Abstract: The effects of, and response to, COVID-19 are uneven both globally and locally. This paper adopts a regional perspective considering the link between life expectancy – as a proxy for the quality of the national health system – and the distribution of both tests for COVID-19 and death rates across Italian regions. Expectedly, a positive link between life expectancy and diagnostic effort is detected. However, a rather counterintuitive positive link is also found between the death rate and life expectancy. Nonetheless, the latter is broadly not statistically significant. These results, while calling for further research, cast doubts on the main drivers of the observed regional patterns. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 463-475 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1832908 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1832908 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:463-475 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Runge Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Runge Author-Name: Jerzy Runge Author-X-Name-First: Jerzy Author-X-Name-Last: Runge Author-Name: Iwona Kantor-Pietraga Author-X-Name-First: Iwona Author-X-Name-Last: Kantor-Pietraga Author-Name: Robert Krzysztofik Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Krzysztofik Title: Does urban shrinkage require urban policy? The case of a post-industrial region in Poland Abstract: The problem of depopulation in towns is present in most European countries. In Central and Eastern Europe it emerged primarily after the political transformation at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Despite the often-significant demographic decline, the problem did not immediately become part of agenda-setting in towns’ local strategies. This paper discusses the above topics, focusing on the principal reasons for trivialization of depopulation in local policies of towns in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. In the discussion an emphasis is placed on the fact that in this region the issue of depopulation and urban shrinkage ‘vied’ with another consequence of transformation: unemployment. Because the Silesian Voivodeship is one of the largest regional labour markets in Europe, the confrontation of the two phenomena in local and regional policy took an original course characterized by phenomena such as policy taboo, trivialization, informal agenda-setting and mismatch strategies. The paper shows that while all the mentioned attributes of urban policy with respect to depopulation may be regarded as negative, considering the gigantic scale of the unemployment and depopulation phenomena and lack of experience in urban governance, they were a ‘natural’ reaction of the local authorities to the accumulated problems. It also indicates that in the studied region issues such as strongly marked morphological polycentricity and its (post)mining and (post)industrial nature were also not without significance. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 476-494 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1831947 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1831947 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:476-494 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Senlin Hu Author-X-Name-First: Senlin Author-X-Name-Last: Hu Author-Name: Gang Zeng Author-X-Name-First: Gang Author-X-Name-Last: Zeng Author-Name: Liang Zhuang Author-X-Name-First: Liang Author-X-Name-Last: Zhuang Author-Name: Haimeng Liu Author-X-Name-First: Haimeng Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: Towards more dispersion: the geographical evolution of China's development zones Abstract: The development zone (DZ) is a typical representative of China's regional economic development model. By comparing the development pattern of DZs in China from 2005 to 2017, we find that there was strong imbalance in 2005, but this trend decreased in 2017, mainly due to the rapid increase in the number of DZs in the central and western regions. Moreover, there is a significant correlation between the spatial pattern of the DZs and economic development. But compared with the spatial pattern of economic development, DZs have dispersed more strongly from 2005 to 2017. Indeed, the rapid dispersion of DZs has not fundamentally changed the imbalanced pattern of China's economic development from 2005 to 2017. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 495-498 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1831948 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1831948 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:495-498 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laura Norris Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Norris Title: The spatial implications of rural business digitalization: case studies from Wales Abstract: The rural–urban digital divide literature addresses the digital inequalities experienced by rural communities. However, little attention has been paid to how rural small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can use improved broadband connection to address spatial inequalities. Furthermore, the integration of digital technologies into SME business models can ultimately lead to productivity gains and potential regional development impacts. In seeking to explore how rural firms digitalize and the impact on spatial inequalities, the paper evaluates 14 case studies of Welsh rural SMEs. The findings highlight that adopting a dynamic business model that is increasingly digitalized is beneficial to all firms, and that there is a potential for digital technologies to address spatial inequalities for rural SMEs. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 499-510 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1841674 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1841674 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:499-510 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jakub Kruszelnicki Author-X-Name-First: Jakub Author-X-Name-Last: Kruszelnicki Author-Name: Mikołaj Gołuński Author-X-Name-First: Mikołaj Author-X-Name-Last: Gołuński Author-Name: Piotr Ciochoń Author-X-Name-First: Piotr Author-X-Name-Last: Ciochoń Author-Name: Manuel Noya Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Noya Author-Name: Esteban Pelayo Author-X-Name-First: Esteban Author-X-Name-Last: Pelayo Author-Name: Joanna Z˙yra Author-X-Name-First: Joanna Author-X-Name-Last: Z˙yra Title: SME segmentation and regional development agencies’ innovation support measures Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to substantiate the necessity and technical possibilities of creating a coherent and intelligent digital tool for small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SME) segmentation, with the support of regional development agencies’ (RDAs) databases. This tool would allow RDAs to improve the monitoring of the financial and innovation support mechanisms for SMEs and enable a classification of the regional population of SMEs in the specific interest categories, such as Regional Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3). As a result, the digitally supported methodology described in this paper contributes to enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of regional support by analysing the impact of the received aid on the productivity of the innovative SMEs. Additionally, the paper provides a categorization of their industrial activity at a more detailed level. Finally, it is argued that those companies with the highest innovation potential could benefit the most from enhanced segmentation. Providing RDAs with data-driven decision tools means that more tailor-made innovation-support instruments can be designed (as opposed to unspecific support instruments). Moreover, the tools could make it easier to perform impact assessment (to justify the investment), from both a qualitative (e.g., a classification based on companies’ assets and merits in key areas for the region) and a quantitative (e.g., financial performance and indicators) point of view. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 511-531 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1811753 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1811753 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:511-531 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kadir Basboga Author-X-Name-First: Kadir Author-X-Name-Last: Basboga Title: The role of open borders and cross-border cooperation in regional growth across Europe Abstract: This paper estimates the impacts of opening of borders and intensity of cross-border cooperation (CBC) on regional growth across European border regions. The difference-in-difference estimations show that the opening of national borders for free movement of people is associated with a 2.7% increase in regional gross value added (GVA) per capita for the border regions of Europe. Using an extension of this estimation based on European Commission-supported CBC projects data for the 2007–13 period (through the INTERREG programme), the results suggest that the doubling of the number of CBC project partners (per 100,000 population) is correlated with an increase of 2.3% in regional GVA per capita. These results confirm the positive economic benefits of European integration by means of CBC. For future research efforts, these findings also encourage the research community to investigate more deeply the channels through which CBC affects the socioeconomic development of border regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 532-549 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1842800 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1842800 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:532-549 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stefanie Döringer Author-X-Name-First: Stefanie Author-X-Name-Last: Döringer Title: Governance entrepreneurship in regional economic development: individual agency in Austria Abstract: Scholars increasingly highlight the role of individual agency for economic development in areas facing socioeconomic transformations. Based on an analytical framework of governance entrepreneurship, this paper explores how entrepreneurial individuals influence local decision-making and alter governance arrangements when implementing new economic development projects. It provides a case study analysis of two peripheral towns in Austria in order to gain a deeper understanding of individual relevancies and behaviour in regional economic development. The findings demonstrate how entrepreneurial individuals (re)arrange governance by (re)combining horizontal and vertical pipelines, mixing informal and formal practices, seeking individual legitimization, and promoting regional rescaling. The analysis also reveals the temporal nature of governance entrepreneurship and suggests differentiating between a long-term governance transition and a temporary governance shift. Overall, the paper provides a middle-range theory of governance entrepreneurship that might contribute to a deeper understanding of agency in regional economic development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 550-567 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1842801 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1842801 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:550-567 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Haimeng Liu Author-X-Name-First: Haimeng Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Chuanglin Fang Author-X-Name-First: Chuanglin Author-X-Name-Last: Fang Author-Name: Yupeng Fan Author-X-Name-First: Yupeng Author-X-Name-Last: Fan Title: Mapping the inequalities of medical resource provision in China Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 exposed the shortage of medical resources and the imbalance between cities in China. To better reveal this inequality, this study uses cartograms and half-violin plots to visualize the hospital beds per 10,000 people, medical personnel per 10,000 people and number of 3A hospitals in China. We find that China has made remarkable progress in the primary healthcare system; however, there is still a significant imbalance in the distribution of medical resources, especially the high-quality part. There is a two- to three-fold gap in primary medical care resources between diverse cities, and high-quality medical resources are highly concentrated in cities with high administrative rank and influence. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 568-570 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1848615 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1848615 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:568-570 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Krupoderova Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Krupoderova Author-Name: Boris A. Portnov Author-X-Name-First: Boris A. Author-X-Name-Last: Portnov Title: Eco-innovations and economic performance of regions: a systematic literature survey Abstract: Regional eco-innovations (EIs) are geographically localized production systems or organizational networks that support new environmentally friendly products and processes, as well as their distribution and marketing. However, little is known about the factors and contextual settings that promote EIs and maximize their effect on regional economic performance. The study aims to fill this knowledge gap by using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews (PRISMA) and meta-analysis tools. According to our analysis, the most frequently mentioned factors behind regional concentrations of EIs are ‘command and control instruments’, ‘market pull’ and ‘R&D cooperation between businesses and universities’. However, the study shows no apparent agglomeration effect in the regional concentrations of EIs, which is generally present with other innovation practices, and no strong dependence of EIs on the type of economic activity, implying that the onset of EIs can occur in multiple regional settings. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 571-588 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1848613 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1848613 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:571-588 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pattanapong Tiwasing Author-X-Name-First: Pattanapong Author-X-Name-Last: Tiwasing Author-Name: Yoo Ri Kim Author-X-Name-First: Yoo Ri Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Author-Name: Temitope Akinremi Author-X-Name-First: Temitope Author-X-Name-Last: Akinremi Title: Spatial disparities in SME productivity: evidence from the service sector in England Abstract: This paper identifies the key determinants of spatial variability of productivity, focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the service sector across England. Due to the hierarchically structured data, multilevel analysis is applied to distinguish the effects of a firm’s internal variables and (sub)regional factors on productivity. Using cross-sectional data for 10,400 SMEs from the UK government’s Small Business Survey, 2015, the results show that firm-specific determinants significantly influence productivity. The findings also indicate that location, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and where firms operate play a pivotal role in determining SME productivity. In particular, at the LEP level, increasing labour supply, promoting local funding and improving broadband speed potentially enhance firm productivity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 589-602 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1854111 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1854111 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:7:y:2020:i:1:p:589-602 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ariane Sept Author-X-Name-First: Ariane Author-X-Name-Last: Sept Title: ‘Slowing down’ in small and medium-sized towns: Cittaslow in Germany and Italy from a social innovation perspective Abstract: Smaller towns in rural regions are important anchors for regional development, but they are not usually considered particularly innovative and open to new ideas. This paper asks how the network of small and medium-sized towns, Cittaslow, could establish slowing down as something new in local development. Against the theoretical background of sociological innovation research, an analytical framework of social innovation is elaborated to analyse Cittaslow using four case studies: two German and two Italian towns. Based on fieldwork in the four towns, this paper shows that discourse and communication on slowing down, local projects labelled as slow and new cooperation structures go hand in hand. This leads to the conclusion that new ways of local development need a communicative umbrella under which projects and stakeholders come together. The paper furthermore demonstrates that the analytical framework, with its triad of semantics, pragmatics and grammar, is extremely helpful for analysing spatial development and has the potential to be adapted as a tool for policy strategies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 259-268 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1919190 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1919190 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:259-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bo Wang Author-X-Name-First: Bo Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Xueying Yang Author-X-Name-First: Xueying Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Jixiang Liu Author-X-Name-First: Jixiang Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: Visualizing the spatial patterns of public responses towards a pandemic outbreak using Internet search data Abstract: Based on a collection of daily Search Index data of symptom-, prevention- and recovery-related terms in Baidu, this study visualizes the spatial patterns of public responses towards the COVID-19 outbreak during the response and coexisting response and recovery phases. We find that provincial capitals and cities in China’s Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions show a relatively high level of public responses in both phases. Furthermore, cities with similar past experiences show a high level of public responses in the response phase, suggesting that enhancing urban resilience is associated with the learning-by-doing process. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 302-304 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1954543 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1954543 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:302-304 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joel L. Arnold Author-X-Name-First: Joel L. Author-X-Name-Last: Arnold Author-Name: Elena Cangelosi Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Cangelosi Author-Name: Wayne R. Beyea Author-X-Name-First: Wayne R. Author-X-Name-Last: Beyea Author-Name: Amal Shaaban Author-X-Name-First: Amal Author-X-Name-Last: Shaaban Author-Name: Suk-Kyung Kim Author-X-Name-First: Suk-Kyung Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Title: Rural climate resilience through built-environment interventions: modified deliberation with analysis as a tool to address barriers to adaptive capacity Abstract: The public health impacts of climate change, and how they can be addressed through implementable built-environment interventions in non-agricultural-based rural communities, is an understudied area in the academic literature and adaptation planning practice, particularly in the United States. This paper addresses this gap in understanding through a pilot project that developed a climate and health-adaptation plan with Marquette County, a geographically large, coastal, non-agricultural-based, rural community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We show how the Deliberation with Analysis model of public participation, supported by visualizations and followed by post-participant surveys to measure its impact on barriers to adaptive capacity, can be used effectively to overcome barriers to adaptive capacity identified in the literature, specifically in understudied non-agricultural-based, rural, coastal communities in the United States. This study contributes to academic debates on adaptation and rurality by displaying the utility of a method that overcomes these key barriers to adaptive capacity noted in past research, specifically a lack of public awareness, a lack of or difficulty understanding climate information, a lack of leadership, and limited coordination and competing priorities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1854110 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1854110 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:1-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mikko Weckroth Author-X-Name-First: Mikko Author-X-Name-Last: Weckroth Author-Name: Teemu Kemppainen Author-X-Name-First: Teemu Author-X-Name-Last: Kemppainen Title: (Un)Happiness, where are you? Evaluating the relationship between urbanity, life satisfaction and economic development in a regional context Abstract: Prior literature suggests that, among the so-called ‘developed economies’, residing in urban contexts is associated with lower life satisfaction. Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and Eurostat, we contribute to this literature by focusing on three different indicators of urbanity (subjective domicile, population density and living in a dominant urban region) in a multilevel modelling context in order to define where exactly the relatively lower life satisfaction can be found. Moreover, we account for the level of economic development at both regional and national levels. The results show that subjective domicile is strongly associated with life satisfaction, whereas regional gross domestic product (GDP) and other urbanity indicators are insignificant. Our results also highlight the relatively higher life satisfaction in rural surroundings in more developed countries. We conclude by noting that future contributions to the literature on urban–rural life satisfaction differences should utilize panel data, making it possible to address the spatial sorting versus contextual effects debate, and focus on investigating the higher level determinants at the country level that define the existence of urban–rural differences in life satisfaction within a country. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 207-227 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1925146 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1925146 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:207-227 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ruggero Cefalo Author-X-Name-First: Ruggero Author-X-Name-Last: Cefalo Author-Name: Rosario Scandurra Author-X-Name-First: Rosario Author-X-Name-Last: Scandurra Title: Territorial disparities in youth labour market chances in Europe Abstract: Comparative research on youth employment has mostly focused on differences between countries or regimes of youth transitions. The territorial differentiation below country level has been less explored, notwithstanding the potential impact on youth-life chances and the territorial cohesion of the European Union. This paper aims at deepening into the investigation of regional variations in patterns of youth labour market chances. To do this, we build on a composite indicator measuring regional youth labour market integration (YLMI) as a comprehensive measure of contextual fragilities (or strengths) of regional youth labour markets. We provide both comparative and longitudinal views over 15 years (2004–18). Furthermore, we explore the impact of contextual factors related to economic conditions, labour market and demographic trends on the regional patterns of youth integration in the labour market. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 228-238 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1925580 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1925580 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:228-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emelie Langemyr Eriksen Author-X-Name-First: Emelie Langemyr Author-X-Name-Last: Eriksen Author-Name: Arne Isaksen Author-X-Name-First: Arne Author-X-Name-Last: Isaksen Title: The emergence of new industries at the regional level: alignment of organizational and regional industrial culture Abstract: This article provides insights into how and where new industries emerge and grow through theoretical reasoning and the advancement of relevant arguments through empirical examples from industry emergence in two Norwegian regions: the establishment of the boatbuilding and the electronics industry in Arendal; and the cancer medicine and educational technology industry in Oslo. The article focuses on culture as an important asset for new industry emergence. We argue that industry emergence is supported if organizational culture in emerging industries and existing or altered regional industrial culture become aligned. The four industry cases demonstrate how in some situations industries emerge through a branching route, for example, related spin-offs, while in other cases they emerge through a creation route based on unrelated local start-ups or importation. We argue that an alignment of organizational and regional industrial culture is more easily achieved in the branching than in the creation route. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 387-401 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1987976 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1987976 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:387-401 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Xiaodong Huang Author-X-Name-First: Xiaodong Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Qinchang Gui Author-X-Name-First: Qinchang Author-X-Name-Last: Gui Author-Name: Xionghe Qin Author-X-Name-First: Xionghe Author-X-Name-Last: Qin Author-Name: Debin Du Author-X-Name-First: Debin Author-X-Name-Last: Du Title: Spatial evolution of the global scientific collaborative network Abstract: The edge-bundling algorithm is applied to visualize the spatial evolution of the international scientific collaborative network, which is reshaping the global scientific landscape. Our analysis finds that as scientific research in the Asia-Pacific region has grown, especially in China, global scientific cooperation across the Eastern and Western hemispheres has greatly increased, thus extending the core axis of global scientific cooperation to the Western Pacific. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 127-129 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1905054 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1905054 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:127-129 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna A. Mikhaylova Author-X-Name-First: Anna A. Author-X-Name-Last: Mikhaylova Author-Name: Andrey S. Mikhaylov Author-X-Name-First: Andrey S. Author-X-Name-Last: Mikhaylov Author-Name: Dmitry V. Hvaley Author-X-Name-First: Dmitry V. Author-X-Name-Last: Hvaley Title: Receptiveness to innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic: asymmetries in the adoption of digital routines Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on both national economies and everyday life. Massive lockdowns and a shift towards digital technologies forced people to adapt to technological innovations in their daily routines in a new online format. In this study we identify patterns of change in the population’s adoption of and receptiveness to digitalization. The focus is on registering the expansion of digital routines influenced by the coronavirus depending on the place of residence, infrastructure and demographics. The results of a population survey held in August 2020 across all municipalities of the Kaliningrad region of Russia suggest that the magnitude of the pandemic’s effect in accelerating digitalization is different for various population types. Most receptive to digital innovations are residents of economically developed municipalities aged 26–40 with higher education having a stable Internet connection at a fair price. The article presents a typology of municipalities on the adoption of and receptiveness to innovation. It is shown that without the established infrastructure, technological, economic, cultural and behavioural basis, the acceleration of digitalization does not occur. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 311-327 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1962400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1962400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:311-327 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francesca Di Pietro Author-X-Name-First: Francesca Author-X-Name-Last: Di Pietro Title: Leveraging regional immigration and immigration diversity for financing crowdfunding projects Abstract: The study focuses on the role of regional immigration and immigration diversity in influencing entrepreneurs’ ability to crowdfund their projects by leveraging the local crowd. Relying on an empirical analysis of 3250 individual investments via three Swiss reward-based crowdfunding platforms, it is found that higher immigration and immigration diversity levels in the region of the project proponent increase his/her ability to fulfil the funding needs by leveraging local backers (as opposed to backers from different regions). Immigration and immigration diversity constitute a cultural milieu that helps the financing of innovation and the development of the local entrepreneurial economy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 291-301 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1939129 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1939129 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:291-301 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Evans Korang Adjei Author-X-Name-First: Evans Korang Author-X-Name-Last: Adjei Title: Surviving start-ups: the importance of entrepreneurial capital Abstract: This paper constructs a theoretical framework that explains how exposure to entrepreneurial activities impacts start-ups’ survival. First, this study examines the effects of entrepreneurial capital (EC) – inherited entrepreneurial practices from parents as a result of the exposure to entrepreneurial activities, on the survival of start-ups. Second, it examines the effects of EC across firm types (family and non-family firm) and regions (smaller and larger region). Using a sample of start-ups in 2002 in Sweden, we found first that EC influences the survival of start-ups, especially start-ups in smaller regions. Further, we found that EC conditions the survival of family start-ups. This paper adds to the literature by opening the discussions on the survival of start-ups and EC. We provide policy implications thereafter. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 239-258 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1927813 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1927813 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:239-258 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniil Maximenko Author-X-Name-First: Daniil Author-X-Name-Last: Maximenko Author-Name: Mikhail Maximenko Author-X-Name-First: Mikhail Author-X-Name-Last: Maximenko Title: GIS for location planning of banks’ physical networks Abstract: Spatial aspects are often crucial for agriculture-related companies. This paper presents how methods of spatial analysis can help to elaborate regional network planning strategy for a large agricultural bank. Corporate reporting microdata, a novel source for the research of Russian business, were processed and visualized with geographical information system (GIS). The overlay of agribusiness clusters and bank accessibility zones revealed uneven patterns of its current branch network. This approach was applicable as a first step for the location choice strategy. The results allowed us to propose a new office location in order to cover territories for the further development of the bank. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 362-365 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1986421 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1986421 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:362-365 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Li Ma Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Author-Name: Die Xu Author-X-Name-First: Die Author-X-Name-Last: Xu Title: Visualizing the geographical network of inter-provincial electricity in China Abstract: This paper empirically visualizes the spatial patterns of the inter-provincial electricity flows in relation to the distribution of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita using spatial geographical information system (GIS) and cartograms. It highlights how developed provinces in eastern China are net importers of electricity from western and central China, which creates a west–east power transmission pattern and helps deepen the regional economy disparity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 341-343 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1970619 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1970619 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:341-343 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jiangping Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Jiangping Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Name: Jiangyue Wu Author-X-Name-First: Jiangyue Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Author-Name: Reynold Cheng Author-X-Name-First: Reynold Author-X-Name-Last: Cheng Title: Visualizing Hong Kong’s mass transit usage under COVID-19 Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic hit the world hard. It has induced many abrupt changes, including lockdowns and business closures. Using changes in local public transit usage as proxies of mobility patterns in a typical high-density city where public transit carries ≥ 90% of passenger trips, this featured graphic geovisualizes to what degree human mobility patterns in Hong Kong were affected by the pandemic and related local and remote events such as the Wuhan lockdown and the Hong Kong government’s ‘work from home’ policy, where the patterns are affected the most, and possibly by/after which event(s). The visuals show that trips to and from business and commercial districts, low- to middle-income new towns, and station areas near the checking point serving cross-border visitors/residents might be most affected. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 178-183 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1924849 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1924849 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:178-183 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lucy Oates Author-X-Name-First: Lucy Author-X-Name-Last: Oates Title: Sustainability transitions in the Global South: a multi-level perspective on urban service delivery Abstract: Urban sustainability in low and middle income countries is rarely studied from a sustainability transitions perspective, though 90% of projected population growth between 2018 and 2050 will be in cities of the Global South. Using principles from grounded theory, this paper explores the relevance of the multi-level perspective (MLP) – a prevalent analytical framework in sustainability transitions theory that has primarily been applied in the Global North – for the study of infrastructure in the Global South. It draws on empirical data collected through case study research in the cities of Ahmedabad, India, and Jinja, Uganda, which have adopted innovative socio-technical approaches to service delivery that respond to the challenges presented by urbanization, climate change and inequality. Applying the MLP to these cases shows how niche innovations by non-state actors in waste management (Ahmedabad) and solar energy (Jinja) can increase access to services, reduce ecological footprints and empower socially excluded groups, in spite (or because) of landscape pressures such as poverty, informality and limited institutional capacity. The observed benefits are attributable not only to technological but also to organizational innovation. These findings may help to develop a more flexible understanding of the types of urban transitions needed and the ways in which those transitions could be achieved. Lessons from alternative socio-technical configurations in the South could be informative for any city looking for service delivery models that better serve contemporary environmental and societal needs. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 426-433 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1995478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1995478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:426-433 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elias Georgantas Author-X-Name-First: Elias Author-X-Name-Last: Georgantas Author-Name: Nikos Lekakis Author-X-Name-First: Nikos Author-X-Name-Last: Lekakis Title: The politics of urban regeneration in Liverpool and Everton FC’s alternate new stadium-project plans Abstract: Urban politics is a US-dominated field, and since the late 1990s there have been academic discussions with a view, on the one hand, to better understanding the British/European case and what distinguishes it from the US one and, on the other, to develop a better comparative theory much of which subsequently went down the path of studying neoliberalism. This article follows an urban politics perspective and the qualitative case-study method to explore Everton Football Club’s 20-year-long unsuccessful struggle to relocate to a new modern stadium of its own in the Liverpool city-region. Although this paper has limitations stemming from the fact that it is a single case study, its contribution to the field is three-fold. First, it adds to the scant literature on new private sports stadia in the UK. Second, it shows that US-based urban politics theories beyond regimes may remain alive in the UK. Third, it supplements the neoliberalist–financialized city statecraft literature by adding sports stadia as infrastructural projects never before incorporated. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 273-290 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1918573 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1918573 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:273-290 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julie T. Miao Author-X-Name-First: Julie T. Author-X-Name-Last: Miao Title: Understanding the soft power of China’s Belt and Road Initiative through a discourse analysis in Europe Abstract: Taking a spatially sensitive approach to evaluating China’s quest of soft power, this paper conducted a media discourse analysis of European countries’ perceptions of China’s growing international influence in general, and its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in particular. Preliminary analysis reveals regional diversity in media coverage of the BRI that was partially caused by a country’s position as a ‘discourse leader’, ‘discourse responder’ or ‘discourse follower’. In terms of the contents, this paper noticed a huge discrepancy among the European countries towards the potential impacts of the BRI and China’s rise in international affairs, and recorded a shift from a rather positive to a cautious attitude among the European Union’s leaders. It is suggested that China’s spatially blind approach to using soft power to promote BRI in Europe may be partly to blame for its limited success so far. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 162-177 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1921612 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1921612 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:162-177 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. Sattler Author-X-Name-First: M. Author-X-Name-Last: Sattler Author-Name: T. Lang Author-X-Name-First: T. Author-X-Name-Last: Lang Author-Name: M. Brainoo Author-X-Name-First: M. Author-X-Name-Last: Brainoo Author-Name: J. Moser Author-X-Name-First: J. Author-X-Name-Last: Moser Author-Name: B. Hölzel Author-X-Name-First: B. Author-X-Name-Last: Hölzel Title: Visualizing the ‘global knowledge economy’ Abstract: In a structuralist reading, the hegemonies of the global economy are perceived as threateningly fixed. We suggest understanding the global knowledge economy as an always unfinished project of ordering socio-spatial relations. To better communicate the struggles of peripherally located places/companies associated with this process of spatial ordering, we provide a simplified visualization of the global knowledge economy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 328-331 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1965013 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1965013 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:328-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Victoria Janes-Bassett Author-X-Name-First: Victoria Author-X-Name-Last: Janes-Bassett Author-Name: Richard Bassett Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Bassett Author-Name: Dmitry Yumashev Author-X-Name-First: Dmitry Author-X-Name-Last: Yumashev Author-Name: Gordon Blair Author-X-Name-First: Gordon Author-X-Name-Last: Blair Author-Name: Jess Davies Author-X-Name-First: Jess Author-X-Name-Last: Davies Title: Mapping regional impacts of agricultural expansion on terrestrial carbon storage Abstract: As a result of growing food demands, the area of land used globally for agriculture has rapidly increased over the last 300 years. Clearance of natural vegetation and conversion of land to agriculture is often associated with terrestrial carbon loss, from both vegetation and soil stores. Changes in terrestrial carbon storage has implications for food production, climate and water regulation. Quantifying these changes is therefore vital to understand the risks to and resilience of these benefits. Land use in the East of England has significantly changed during this period and is now predominantly used for agriculture, specifically arable use. In order to map changes to terrestrial carbon storage in this region since 1700, we apply a plant–soil system biogeochemistry model, N14CP. The model indicates carbon storage in the East of England has decreased by 109 Mt (−35.7%) during the study period, and whilst losses are observed in both soil and vegetation stores, vegetation losses as a result of forest clearance dominate. These findings have implications for carbon sequestration strategies; the largest carbon storage gains within the region are likely to be achieved through land-use transitions such as afforestation, rather than soil sequestration through changing arable management practices. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 336-340 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1967188 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1967188 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:336-340 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Graham Squires Author-X-Name-First: Graham Author-X-Name-Last: Squires Author-Name: Arshad Javed Author-X-Name-First: Arshad Author-X-Name-Last: Javed Author-Name: Hai Hong Trinh Author-X-Name-First: Hai Hong Author-X-Name-Last: Trinh Title: Housing charges to fund bulk infrastructure: innovative or traditional? Abstract: This study investigates whether the use of housing charges is an innovative or traditional instrument in financing bulk infrastructure. It develops a conceptual framework to demonstrate how housing charges are perceived as an innovative model of financing and funding bulk infrastructure. Research focuses on a case study policy pilot infrastructure project in New Zealand, with primary evidence gathered from informed professional stakeholder interviews. The findings highlight that revenue streams are the most common concern when applying the infrastructure funding and financing (IFF) model to deal with bulk infrastructure. Further, as housing charges are a new instrument generating cash flows to finance bulk infrastructure, it is found that financing infrastructure development is only innovative in terms of its mechanics, legislation and policy setting. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 65-84 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1882883 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1882883 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:65-84 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sharif Rasel Author-X-Name-First: Sharif Author-X-Name-Last: Rasel Author-Name: Paul Kalfadellis Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Kalfadellis Title: Global and non-global city locations: the effect of clusters on the performance of foreign firms Abstract: This study examines the effects of subnational regional heterogeneity on the performance of foreign firms. Based on the global city concept, it identified regions with and without global connectivity and then compared the effects of within-country location advantages on foreign firm performance between the regions within a country. Given that present studies offer conflicting findings on how industrial concentration, that is, clusters, affect the performance of business firms, this study argues that they fail to address the global connectivity of subnational regions. Findings from Australia suggest that industrial concentration in regions with global connectivity as highlighted by global cities have a positive effect on the performance of foreign firms located there; however, that is not the case in other non-global city locations. This study thus offers an insight into better understanding this unresolved issue by arguing that the effect of industrial concentration upon a foreign firm’s performance is contingent upon the subnational regions’ global connectivity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 88-108 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1898461 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1898461 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:88-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Craig Wesley Carpenter Author-X-Name-First: Craig Wesley Author-X-Name-Last: Carpenter Author-Name: Anders Van Sandt Author-X-Name-First: Anders Author-X-Name-Last: Van Sandt Author-Name: Scott Loveridge Author-X-Name-First: Scott Author-X-Name-Last: Loveridge Title: Empirical methods in business location research Abstract: A frequent theme in regional science is exploring the determinants of business establishment locations. We briefly review the theoretical perspectives motivating several frameworks underpinning locational determinant analyses. We summarize and review trade-offs involved in established and emerging econometric techniques that researchers use to analyse locational determinants. We conclude with opportunities for future research, including understudied frameworks, potential data sources and methodological developments. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 344-361 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1976261 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1976261 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:344-361 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Arief Anshory Yusuf Author-X-Name-First: Arief Anshory Author-X-Name-Last: Yusuf Author-Name: Reza Anglingkusumo Author-X-Name-First: Reza Author-X-Name-Last: Anglingkusumo Author-Name: Andy Sumner Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Sumner Title: A direct test of Kuznets in a developing economy: a cross-district analysis of structural transformation and inequality in Indonesia Abstract: This paper empirically tests the Kuznets hypothesis that structural transformation – the movement of labour from low productivity to higher productivity sectors – is associated with rising inequality in a developing economy. We assemble a unique data set of inequality and sectoral employment shares of almost 300 districts of Indonesia and sector-specific measures of inequality for the period 1992–2017. Unlike studies that use value added shares to test the Kuznets hypothesis, this paper is among a few that directly test it with sectoral employment shares. We find that structural change and rising inequality coevolve in different ways depending on the modality of structural transformation. Specifically, we find in the Indonesian case that structural transformation has a tendency to be associated with falling inequality during a period of industrialization and increasing inequality during a period of tertiarization. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 184-206 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1924850 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1924850 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:184-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ron Martin Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Title: Rebuilding the economy from the Covid crisis: time to rethink regional studies? Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic is the latest in a series of cascading crises of global capitalism that have both exposed and intensified a systemic problem of social and regional inequality that has in fact been unfolding in the advanced economies for more than four decades. There are growing calls for ‘rebuilding back better’ from the pandemic, for redesigning capitalism to make it more equitable and sustainable. This paper argues that regional studies has a key role to play in shaping and informing such an agenda, but that to do so requires a rethinking of our research priorities, theoretical frameworks and normative commitments. As part of such a rethinking, the paper calls for a progressive–melioristic turn in regional studies, for a transformative vocation committed to the pursuit of equitable and just regional outcomes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 143-161 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1919191 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1919191 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:143-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lars Mewes Author-X-Name-First: Lars Author-X-Name-Last: Mewes Author-Name: Tobias Ebert Author-X-Name-First: Tobias Author-X-Name-Last: Ebert Title: Where do people want to become entrepreneurs? Mapping entrepreneurship potential across Great Britain Abstract: Promoting entrepreneurial activities is crucial for regions to facilitate innovation and economic development. Yet, becoming an entrepreneur is not aspired by all people, and regions may differ considerably in their entrepreneurship potential. Assessing and providing accurate estimates of the entrepreneurship potential across fine-grained spatial scales is thus crucial to inform regional policymakers, but it still remains a major challenge due to data availability. Here we used the lab data set from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) covering 368,364 individuals and providing high-resolution data about their residences to map the entrepreneurship potential across 9271 postcode sectors in Great Britain. We used a novel mapping approach that relies on a spatial smoothing function based on distance weights to utilize the most fine-grained spatial level available in the data. Our detailed maps show substantial difference in entrepreneurship potential across postcode sectors in Great Britain and within the largest cities: London, Birmingham and Manchester. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 332-335 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1966319 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1966319 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:332-335 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Diana Morales Author-X-Name-First: Diana Author-X-Name-Last: Morales Author-Name: Laura Sariego-Kluge Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Sariego-Kluge Title: Regional state innovation in peripheral regions: enabling Lapland’s green policies Abstract: How do sparsely populated regions innovate in green policies? What enables or limits such innovation? The green policy literature often focuses on core regions, while territorial innovation models have long ignored regional state innovation. In this article we examine the drivers of public sector innovation in green policies in peripheral regions, often considered unequipped. The data come from the case study of Finnish Lapland's Smart Specialisation Strategy in relation to promoting a forest-based bioeconomy. In a context where climate change has become a major global challenge, and sustainable development an additional responsibility for local and regional governments, this article contributes to understanding the rationales for innovation in green policies from a regional perspective. Drawing from institutional economic geography, we argue that top-down approaches (Smart Specialisation) combined with scale and place-specificity (personal connections, environmental fragility, political will and natural resources endowments) play an important role in driving the governments of sparsely populated regions to innovate when translating and implementing green policies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 54-64 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1882882 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1882882 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:54-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Massimiliano Ferraresi Author-X-Name-First: Massimiliano Author-X-Name-Last: Ferraresi Author-Name: Giuseppe Migali Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Author-X-Name-Last: Migali Author-Name: Leonzio Rizzo Author-X-Name-First: Leonzio Author-X-Name-Last: Rizzo Author-Name: Riccardo Secomandi Author-X-Name-First: Riccardo Author-X-Name-Last: Secomandi Title: Widespread swabs testing and the fight against the Covid-19 outbreak Abstract: To control the reproduction rate, R, and therefore to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, countries have announced several measures. We rely on a quasi-natural experimental approach and provide graphical evidence of the effectiveness of the widespread use of swabs testing in reducing the Covid infection rate among Italian provinces. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 85-87 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1897658 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1897658 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:85-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Benjamin Nowak Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin Author-X-Name-Last: Nowak Title: Territorial mapping to increase soil carbon storage Abstract: The ‘4 per 1000’ initiative aims to increase soil organic carbon stocks to offset carbon dioxide emissions. For a French case study, this graphic offers evidence of the links between carbon stocks and agricultural productions at the territorial level: stocks are positively associated with animal loads, whereas soils with arable crops have much lower stocks despite a higher storage potential. Territorial mapping of both storage capacities and organic resources is needed to optimize soil carbon storage. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 308-310 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1960889 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1960889 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:308-310 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Faraimo J. Vai Author-X-Name-First: Faraimo J. Author-X-Name-Last: Vai Title: Regional and international inter-organizational STI and DUI collaborations as carriers for eco-innovation Abstract: This paper investigates regional and international inter-organizational doing, using and interacting (DUI) and science, technology and innovation (STI) collaborations as carriers for eco-innovation. Contextually, it studies a sample of Norwegian firms primarily based on the west coast of the country. Overall, the econometric analysis shows mixed results for regional and international inter-organizational collaborations. Results were significant for both regional DUI and STI inter-organizational collaborations. In addition, international DUI was also relevant; however, international STI inter-organizational collaborations consistently showed no effects. These latter findings challenge the notion that DUI collaborations are restricted to regional boundaries, whereas STI collaborations can overcome them. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 402-419 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1989324 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1989324 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:402-419 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ricardo Avella Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo Author-X-Name-Last: Avella Title: Rural regional planning in the Venezuelan Guayana: an approach to inform decision-making in peripheral areas Abstract: The Venezuelan economic crisis, combined with the creation of the Orinoco Mining Arc (OMA), has pushed thousands of people to work in wildcat mines in the Venezuelan Guayana. Even though attempts have been made to control illegal mining in the past, the absence of planning and lack of concrete economic alternatives have made these efforts unsuccessful. Spatial planning could play an important role in developing a rural regional strategy aimed at making other livelihood options available. This is a challenging endeavour, however, because the Venezuelan Guayana is the largest and least populated region of the country, with most of its surface covered by fragile forests rich in ecological and cultural diversity. Moreover, data to inform decision-making are unavailable or severely limited. This paper presents an approach that attempts to overcome those obstacles and seeks to identify which are the peripheral remote areas where resource extraction and its negative externalities are most present, conflicting with the preservation of the forest, its biodiversity and the livelihoods of Indigenous populations. The conclusions presented here might assist spatial planners and policymakers who seek to explore territorial approaches for rural development and inform decision-making in peripheral regions where data are scarce. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 434-446 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1997636 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1997636 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:434-446 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Conceição Rego Author-X-Name-First: Conceição Author-X-Name-Last: Rego Author-Name: Isabel Joaquina Ramos Author-X-Name-First: Isabel Joaquina Author-X-Name-Last: Ramos Author-Name: Maria Raquel Lucas Author-X-Name-First: Maria Raquel Author-X-Name-Last: Lucas Author-Name: Maria da Saudade Baltazar Author-X-Name-First: Maria da Saudade Author-X-Name-Last: Baltazar Author-Name: Andreia Dionísio Author-X-Name-First: Andreia Author-X-Name-Last: Dionísio Title: New geography in old territories: a multivariate approach based on Portuguese regions Abstract: This paper studies the strongly asymmetrical distribution of the population, quality of life and economic development in Portugal. It identifies homogeneous areas supported by an analysis of competitiveness, cohesion and environmental quality dimensions. Drawing on a multivariate approach, its findings reveal differences in terms of development across the country. The study identified groups of regions with common characteristics that go beyond the standard north–south or coastal–inland distinctions. Metropolitan areas and export-oriented regions are clearly distinguishable from the remainder of the country. Economic agglomeration indicators, as gross domestic product per capita, population density, resident foreign population and youth index, among others, are those that reveal greater diversity across the country. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 25-50 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1860807 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2020.1860807 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:25-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert Radburn Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Radburn Author-Name: Roger Beecham Author-X-Name-First: Roger Author-X-Name-Last: Beecham Title: Mapping deprivation for each and every small area in England Abstract: Our regional graphic maps deprivation for small neighbourhoods in England in a way that enables the extent, distribution and spatial structure of deprivation to be perceived at multiple levels of geography. All 32,844 neighbourhoods are depicted using rectangles of constant size and with an approximate geographical arrangement. This approach overcomes familiar cartographic challenges when representing demographic data, exposing local pockets of deprivation that would otherwise be obscured in a conventional map. Neighbourhoods are nested hierarchically, and this hierarchy is emphasized in our design, allowing analysis within and between regions. The graphic reveals important spatial processes – rich patterns of continuity and discontinuity at multiple spatial scales – that may not be as effectively represented using non-visual means. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 269-272 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1934528 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1934528 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:269-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Valentina Teslenko Author-X-Name-First: Valentina Author-X-Name-Last: Teslenko Author-Name: Roman Melnikov Author-X-Name-First: Roman Author-X-Name-Last: Melnikov Author-Name: Damien Bazin Author-X-Name-First: Damien Author-X-Name-Last: Bazin Title: Evaluation of the impact of human capital on innovation activity in Russian regions Abstract: The article evaluates the impact of changes in the structure of human capital on the innovative activity of Russian regions. We hypothesize that the different types of human capital formed by vocational education and training, higher education and doctoral programmes play an independent and significant role in the process of innovative development. To test the hypotheses, data on the innovative product output, applications for international patents and the structure of human capital of Russian regions for the period 2009–18 are used. The results of the analysis indicate that the impact of growth in the share of employees with higher education on the innovation and patent activity in Russian regions is characterized by diminishing returns, the shortage of skilled workers with vocational education hinders the growth of innovation output, and the growth in the share of researches with candidate or doctor of science degree increases innovation and patent activity if proper research and development funding is provided. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 109-126 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1900744 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1900744 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:109-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sriparna Ghosh Author-X-Name-First: Sriparna Author-X-Name-Last: Ghosh Author-Name: Richard J. Cebula Author-X-Name-First: Richard J. Author-X-Name-Last: Cebula Title: Proximity to coal mines and mortality rates in the Appalachian Region of the United States: a spatial econometric analysis Abstract: Over the last several years, a body of the scholarly literature has emerged analysing the effects of proximity to coal mines and various human health indicators in the United States. These studies have found evidence of an increased poor health status associated with the production of coal and with close proximity to coal mines. The present study contributes to this literature by analysing the spatial effects of coal production on neighbouring counties within the entire 420-county, 13-state Appalachian Region in terms of increased rates of death attributable to respiratory diseases. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 130-142 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1906311 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1906311 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:130-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Regional Studies, Regional Science 2021 Awards Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 425-425 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1980995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1980995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:425-425 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Patrick Ballantyne Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Ballantyne Author-Name: Alex Singleton Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Singleton Author-Name: Les Dolega Author-X-Name-First: Les Author-X-Name-Last: Dolega Title: A regional exploration of retail visits during the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: Despite evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated significant regional (economic) inequalities, there is a substantial lack of regional insight into the impacts of COVID-19 on the retail sector. In this study, using data from SafeGraph, we adopt a regional approach to explore how visits to retail places changed during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Chicago Metropolitan area. In particular, we highlight that retail visits exhibited interesting spatio-temporal and structural trends. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 366-370 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1973548 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1973548 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:366-370 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mikel Gurrutxaga Author-X-Name-First: Mikel Author-X-Name-Last: Gurrutxaga Title: Visualizing the rural population growth in Spain during 2020 triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic Abstract: Since the first months of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has driven social distancing measures in many countries, which have made it potentially more attractive to reside in less populated areas. This paper visualizes whether the registered populations in municipalities with fewer than 2000 inhabitants in Spanish regions have changed during 2020 in a different way than previous years. The per cent variation of the rural population is measured, as well as the proportion of the rural population over the total population, in two periods: January 2000–January 2020 and during 2020. The results show an increase in the rural population in 13 of the 17 Spanish regions, and an increase in the proportion in 14 regions during 2020, in contrast to the declining trends prevailing in previous years. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 305-307 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1958050 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1958050 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:305-307 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dieter F. Kogler Author-X-Name-First: Dieter F. Author-X-Name-Last: Kogler Author-Name: Keungoui Kim Author-X-Name-First: Keungoui Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Title: Following the paper trail: the UK scientific and technological knowledge space and its reliance on international knowledge spillovers Abstract: Knowledge is an essential ingredient for economic development, growth and gaining a competitive advantage. In order to produce novel and valuable knowledge, it is advantageous, perhaps vital, to rely on insights gained from prior research efforts. Those knowledge spillovers (KS) provide the rationale for sustained economic growth and produce unique place-based knowledge spaces. Due to the spatial embeddedness and stickiness of knowledge, most investigations mainly pay attention to the localized nature of KS, but what about those spillovers from other jurisdictions, or perhaps even from across the globe? To analyse the role played by international KS, the present study investigates to what extent international KS shape the evolution of the UK science and technology space. The first step involves creating knowledge spaces following the methodology outlined by Kogler et al. (2013; 2017) for the period 2006–15. Subsequently, we are following the paper trail of publications and patents developed by UK authors and inventors to depict to what degree international KS in specific science and technology domains have contributed to the production of novel knowledge in the UK. The results indicate that four out of five citations made in publications and patents in the UK are the works of authors and inventors residing elsewhere. This has important policy implications considering recent tendencies to curtail trade and the free movement of labour, all of which contribute to the diffusion of knowledge. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 447-459 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.2009907 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.2009907 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:447-459 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aurore Sallard Author-X-Name-First: Aurore Author-X-Name-Last: Sallard Author-Name: Miloš Balać Author-X-Name-First: Miloš Author-X-Name-Last: Balać Author-Name: Sebastian Hörl Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Hörl Title: An open data-driven approach for travel demand synthesis: an application to São Paulo Abstract: This paper presents a synthetic travel demand for the Greater São Paulo Metropolitan Region of Brazil, entirely based on open data and representative of the observed travel demand. The open-source and extendable pipeline creates a path from raw data to the synthetic travel demand and, further, to the downstream agent-based mobility simulation. An advantage of this approach is that it enables the reproduction of the synthetic travel demand and, therefore, provides the foundation of repeatability of downstream studies. Furthermore, as the methodology is based on open data, the study’s outcomes are easily accessible to the broad research and practice-oriented community. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 371-386 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1968941 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1968941 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:371-386 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ilkka Väänänen Author-X-Name-First: Ilkka Author-X-Name-Last: Väänänen Author-Name: Kirsi Kiiskinen Author-X-Name-First: Kirsi Author-X-Name-Last: Kiiskinen Author-Name: Kati Peltonen Author-X-Name-First: Kati Author-X-Name-Last: Peltonen Title: The framework of the Päijät-Häme Sport, Experiences, and Well-being Road Map 2030 Abstract: An inductive, qualitative content approach and participating co-creation were used to establish the Road Map for Sport, Experiences, and Well-being 2030 framework for the Päijät-Häme region of Finland. The themes of development are: With the development of conditions and infrastructure towards versatile and accessible actions; With digitalization towards effective accessibility; With the shared brand message towards an excellent customer experience; and With strong expertise towards seamless cooperation. The framework illustrates business development, sustainable solutions, dissemination and internationalization as cross-cutting perspectives. Furthermore, it provides regional guidelines for long-term collaborative development work; the identification of new synergies; the development of the sport, tourism and well-being business; and the strengthening of systematic and experimental innovation. It is a comprehensive regional plan for social interaction, and political–administrative decision-making and practice in Päijät-Häme. The framework can be used in other regions in a cross-administrative way to identify the specific characteristics of a region, highlight competitive advantages and outline the excellence of stakeholders. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 420-424 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1989325 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1989325 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:420-424 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zhipeng Tang Author-X-Name-First: Zhipeng Author-X-Name-Last: Tang Author-Name: Ziao Mei Author-X-Name-First: Ziao Author-X-Name-Last: Mei Author-Name: Guangjun Sui Author-X-Name-First: Guangjun Author-X-Name-Last: Sui Author-Name: Jialing Zou Author-X-Name-First: Jialing Author-X-Name-Last: Zou Title: Visualizing the impact of COVID-19 on PM2.5 concentrations in China Abstract: In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese government imposed stringent lockdown measures to minimize the spread of the disease. This paper shows that under these measures, the PM2.5 concentrations were lower in February 2020 than in February 2019. However, after the measures were removed, the PM2.5 concentration returned to the same level as in the previous year, thus implicating that the reduction was temporary. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 51-53 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1872414 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.1872414 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:8:y:2021:i:1:p:51-53 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2045213_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Eduardo Rodrigues Sanguinet Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Rodrigues Author-X-Name-Last: Sanguinet Title: Regional inequality and CO2 emissions-based trade across value chains networks: a multiscalar analysis from Brazilian states Abstract: This article analyses the interregional linkages and the relative intensity of CO2 emissions embedded into domestic and global value chains from Brazilian states. An extended environmentally interregional input–output model (EEIIO) was applied to measure the bilateral trade in value-added (TiVA) and the total implicit emissions trade (TTE). The results reveal unbalanced pollution patterns in space. Few manufacturing hubs in core Brazilian states (mainly São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) are net importers of intensive greenhouse gas (GHG) inputs from peripheries, implying an environmental responsibility driven by networks’ governance and relative position. By recognizing the role that multiscalar integration plays in implicit CO2 in both production and trade, it is possible to build local strategies to reduce sustainable spatial gaps. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 135-148 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2045213 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2045213 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:135-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2045214_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: John Agnew Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Agnew Title: Failing federalism? US dualist federalism and the 2020–22 pandemic Abstract: Some accounts focus on the role of governmental systems in the management of the 2020–22 Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic. But studies with such an emphasis have typically taken second place to interpretations of outcomes in terms of cases and deaths based on cultural and demographic differences. In theory, federal systems would seem to have certain advantages in managing pandemics given the presumed ability to co-manage national challenges at the federal level (testing, vaccines, resources, etc.) with local differences in demography and behaviour at the state level. This paper argues that, in the case of the United States, its federal system was central to its failure in managing the pandemic. But rather than an indictment of federalism broadly construed, this was the result of a vision of federalism put into practice since the 1980s reflecting a strict division of powers between the states and the federal government. Rather than partners or collaborators with the federal government, the states became competitors with one another and with the federal government. This was the recipe for failure more than was federalism as such. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 149-171 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2045214 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2045214 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:149-171 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2084446_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Amit Jain Author-X-Name-First: Amit Author-X-Name-Last: Jain Title: Negotiating environmentality: implementation of Joint Forest Management in eastern India Abstract: This article helps to reconcile developmental and conservation goals in community forest management. Through a case study design, using the conceptual lenses of governmentality, it unpacks how the regional networks of developmental aspirations in the Hazaribagh region of eastern India shaped people’s perception of their forests and their engagement with India’s Joint Forest Management programme. The outcome of such an engagement was a hybrid community forest management, comprising elements of both the rationalities of the state and the local community. Thus, the article suggests that the recognition of regionally grounded networks of developmental aspirations becomes a key to achieving socio-ecological justice in regionally meaningful ways in many countries of the Global South. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 446-456 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2084446 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2084446 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:446-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2060131_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Miguel González-Leonardo Author-X-Name-First: Miguel Author-X-Name-Last: González-Leonardo Author-Name: Antonio López-Gay Author-X-Name-First: Antonio Author-X-Name-Last: López-Gay Author-Name: Albert Esteve Author-X-Name-First: Albert Author-X-Name-Last: Esteve Title: Interregional migration of human capital in Spain Abstract: While levels of internal mobility have been trending down in many advanced economies, the interregional migration rates of Spanish young adults have increased. This paper analyses the internal movements of the Spanish-born population aged 25–39 between NUTS-2 regions from 1992 to 2018, including sub-periods linked to the Spanish economic context. The analysis incorporates the urban–rural dimension within each region and the educational level of migrants, a variable that has not been included in Spanish internal migration studies. We used flow register data of migration and sociodemographic information from the Labor Force Survey. The results show that migrations between regions have become more unbalanced over time, especially since the 2008 crisis. In addition, a new trend of out-migration from cities in peripheral regions has been detected, which contrasts with the former high level of rural out-migration. A great educational selectivity of out-migrants and a growing internal brain drain have also been found. Moreover, qualified human capital accumulation has been increasing in Madrid. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 324-342 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2060131 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2060131 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:324-342 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2061867_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: René Böheim Author-X-Name-First: René Author-X-Name-Last: Böheim Author-Name: Michael Christl Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Christl Title: Mismatch unemployment in Austria: the role of regional labour markets for skills Abstract: Over the past decade, the Beveridge curve in the Austrian labour market has shifted significantly outward. Using detailed administrative data on job vacancies and registered unemployed persons by region and skill level, we investigate which factors have caused this shift. We find that the Beveridge curve has shifted mainly because mismatch has increased significantly. Looking at the regional and skill level dimensions of mismatch unemployment, we find a significant increase in mismatch unemployment in manual routine jobs and in the Vienna region of Austria. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 208-222 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2061867 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2061867 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:208-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2132180_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Halfdan Lynge Author-X-Name-First: Halfdan Author-X-Name-Last: Lynge Author-Name: Justin Visagie Author-X-Name-First: Justin Author-X-Name-Last: Visagie Author-Name: Andreas Scheba Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Scheba Author-Name: Ivan Turok Author-X-Name-First: Ivan Author-X-Name-Last: Turok Author-Name: David Everatt Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Everatt Author-Name: Caryn Abrahams Author-X-Name-First: Caryn Author-X-Name-Last: Abrahams Title: Developing neighbourhood typologies and understanding urban inequality: a data-driven approach Abstract: Neighbourhoods affect people’s livelihoods, and therefore drive and mediate intra-urban inequalities and transformations. While the neighbourhood has long been recognized as an important unit of analysis, there is surprisingly little systematic research on different neighbourhood types, especially in the fast-growing cities of the Global South. In this paper we employ k-means clustering, a common machine-learning algorithm, to develop a neighbourhood typology for South Africa’s eight largest cities. Using census data, we identify and describe eight neighbourhood types, each with distinct demographic, socio-economic, structural and infrastructural characteristics. This is followed by a relational comparison of the neighbourhood types along key variables, where we demonstrate the persistent and multi-dimensional nature of residential inequalities. In addition to shedding new light on the internal structure of South African cities, the paper makes an important contribution by applying an inductive, data-driven approach to developing neighbourhood typologies that advances a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of cities in the Global South. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 618-640 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2132180 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2132180 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:618-640 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2137427_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Kaoru Kakinuma Author-X-Name-First: Kaoru Author-X-Name-Last: Kakinuma Author-Name: Guy J. Abel Author-X-Name-First: Guy J. Author-X-Name-Last: Abel Title: The development of internal migration flow patterns in Japan Abstract: Population decline is expected to continue to be a prominent feature of Japanese demography in future decades. Internal migration plays a significant role in dictating the intensity of population decline at the regional level. In this paper we visualize inter-prefecture internal migration flows between the eight regions of Japan in 2020 using a chord diagram to show the relative scales of the origin–destination migration flows between each region. In addition, we use an animated series of chord diagrams to show the development of internal migration between 1954 and 2020. We fix the axis of the sectors of the chord diagram in the animation to illustrate the rapid growth and then slow decline (post-1972) in the regional migration system, as well as the interruption in the movement patterns during 2011, due to the Great East Japan Earthquake. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 669-671 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2137427 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2137427 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:669-671 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2030789_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Salvatore Barbaro Author-X-Name-First: Salvatore Author-X-Name-Last: Barbaro Title: Price-shifting fungibility Abstract: Unconditional intergovernmental grants are popular with economists but increasingly rarely observed in practice. Conversely, earmarking grants became a common form of the centres’ support to states in federalist countries, though they are seriously flawed by welfare loss induced by the intended reallocation of states’ provision of goods and services. Conditional grants bring states’ governments a dilemma: intergovernmental grants increase states’ revenues and enhance welfare, but the revenue gain is paid with amendments on the expenditure side, which harms welfare. We introduce the notion of price-shifting fungibility. It describes the effect of grant-receiving states minimizing the distortionary impact of conditional grants by lowering the prices or quality of the targeted good. By reducing the expenditure for the subsidized good, states create financial leeway to promote goods and services other than the targeted interest. By doing so, they can compensate for the welfare loss caused by conditional grants. We provide a simple theoretical model and some empirical evidence. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 93-109 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2030789 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2030789 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:93-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2072761_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Jie Huang Author-X-Name-First: Jie Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Jiaoe Wang Author-X-Name-First: Jiaoe Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Yongling Li Author-X-Name-First: Yongling Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: How Covid-19 affects intercity transportation in China: high-speed rail versus air Abstract: This graphic uses cartogram analysis to demonstrate how Covid-19 affects high-speed rail (HSR) and air networks in China. During the first round of the Covid-19 outbreak, intercity transportation networks significantly decreased their service. However, the supply of transport hubs was retained to ensure basic service coverage and efficiency. Conversely, air transportation was affected more than HSR networks. The average number of daily flights declined to 19% of the original traffic, while high-speed trains maintained their original 64%. This disparity is explained by the owners and operation of the two transportation networks and their different roles in intercity connections. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 409-411 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2072761 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2072761 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:409-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2139195_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Giulia Valeria Sonzogno Author-X-Name-First: Giulia Valeria Author-X-Name-Last: Sonzogno Author-Name: Giulia Urso Author-X-Name-First: Giulia Author-X-Name-Last: Urso Author-Name: Alessandra Faggian Author-X-Name-First: Alessandra Author-X-Name-Last: Faggian Title: Migration propensity of peripheral youth: insights from Italy Abstract: The social and economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic are at risk of exacerbating the pre-existing intergenerational and interregional inequalities between and within countries, such as those between core and peripheral areas. In particular, in the latter, especially in Italy, the lack of opportunities and access to essential services may affect the current and new generations to come, while also compromising the development of the country as a whole. Against this backdrop, understanding young people's aspirations and needs is vital to produce evidence-based knowledge to inform policies promoting opportunities to stay in or return to these territories. This paper investigates young people's migration propensity, uncovering the individual characteristics and the factors explaining their propensity to leave their place or to stay and work there. Data come from a nationwide survey carried out on a representative sample of about 950 young people residing in peripheral areas of Italy, via a questionnaire designed and administered as part of the research-action project ‘Giovani Dentro’. The study provides new and timely information about the difficulties, desires and plans of young people who choose to stay in or return to these territories. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 709-726 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2139195 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2139195 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:709-726 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2117077_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Luca Bettarelli Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Bettarelli Author-Name: Emilie Van Haute Author-X-Name-First: Emilie Author-X-Name-Last: Van Haute Title: Regional inequalities as drivers of affective polarization Abstract: This paper investigates divergences in levels of affective polarization across Belgian regions around the 2019 elections. Elaborating on the relative deprivation theory, we analyse the role of current and long-term socio-economic regional inequalities and of geographical distance separating regions. Empirically, we aggregate individual-level measures of affective polarization at the Belgian NUTS-3 level and use a gravity approach to explore the determinants of regional divergences. Our results show that regional variations in affective polarization are best explained by a current rural–urban divide and by how regions have performed economically in the last years. We also show that geographical proximity matters and reinforces the effects of economic deprivation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 549-570 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2117077 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2117077 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:549-570 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2151933_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Richard J. Cebula Author-X-Name-First: Richard J. Author-X-Name-Last: Cebula Author-Name: Malissa L. Davis Author-X-Name-First: Malissa L. Author-X-Name-Last: Davis Title: Determinants of poverty in the US state of Virginia: an examination of the impact of rent (the neglected variable) Abstract: This study provides new insight into factors that influence the poverty rate by testing the following hypothesis: the percentage of the population in poverty is positively related to rent levels. Rent levels constitute an issue effectively overlooked in the poverty determinants literature. The present study estimates a panel data set inclusive of control variables for the US state of Virginia, which provided all the data needed for the analysis. Panel least squares (PLS) estimations using county fixed effects and period fixed effects for the period 2008–17 find poverty inversely related to median income and the percentage of the population with at least a high-school diploma. Poverty also is found to be positively related to the percentage of the population employed in mining; the percentage of the population classified as obese; and the unemployment rate. Finally, poverty in Virginia is, as hypothesized here, an increasing function of rent. Higher monthly rental levels on one-bedroom apartments increase the percentage of the population in poverty; indeed, a US$100 per month increase in rent would elevate the overall poverty rate in the state by 1.20–1.35%. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 818-830 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2151933 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2151933 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:818-830 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2118072_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Daragh O’Leary Author-X-Name-First: Daragh Author-X-Name-Last: O’Leary Title: Unemployment and entrepreneurship across high-, middle- and low-performing European regions Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment. Using Eurostat business demography data, a strongly balanced panel model pertaining to 148 European regions from 2008 to 2017 is assembled and a fixed effects regression technique is used to analyse the relationship between net business population growth and lagged unemployment. Results from the analysis show evidence of a negative relationship. However, when we stratify regions based on their economic performance, we find that this relationship is positive in higher performing regions and negative in lower performing regions, suggesting that push-factor or necessity-based entrepreneurship may be more prevalent in leading rather than lagging regions. Implications for policy are discussed. Results for the influence of industrial concentration and variety on entrepreneurship are also obtained. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 571-580 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2118072 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2118072 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:571-580 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2094828_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Yingying Xu Author-X-Name-First: Yingying Author-X-Name-Last: Xu Author-Name: Dawei Cheng Author-X-Name-First: Dawei Author-X-Name-Last: Cheng Author-Name: Ho-Yin Chan Author-X-Name-First: Ho-Yin Author-X-Name-Last: Chan Author-Name: Anthony Chen Author-X-Name-First: Anthony Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: Visualizing the impact of Covid-19 vaccine passports on pedestrian access to metro stations in Hong Kong Abstract: Pedestrian infrastructures in Hong Kong enable multilevel city life in a vertical metropolis plagued by land scarcity. Public spaces integrated into pedestrian networks play an indispensable role in neighbourhood accessibility. We visualize the impact of the Covid-19 vaccine passport (VP) restrictions on the use of public space on pedestrian accessibility to all 97 metro stations in Hong Kong. Pedestrians without a vaccine passport (PwoVP) need to walk significantly longer alternative routes. Specifically, VP-related access restrictions to indoor walkways have doubled the shortest travel time for PwoVP and a 50% reduction in accessibility of two-thirds of stations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 516-518 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2094828 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2094828 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:516-518 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2144427_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Christopher Bajada Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Bajada Author-Name: Renu Agarwal Author-X-Name-First: Renu Author-X-Name-Last: Agarwal Author-Name: Katrina Skellern Author-X-Name-First: Katrina Author-X-Name-Last: Skellern Author-Name: Samantha Luff Author-X-Name-First: Samantha Author-X-Name-Last: Luff Author-Name: Stephen Soco Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Soco Author-Name: Roy Green Author-X-Name-First: Roy Author-X-Name-Last: Green Title: Enablers of successful innovation precincts Abstract: Governments worldwide are increasingly focused on promoting innovation activity to generate much needed economic growth. Innovation precincts are seen as providing the strategic opportunity to leapfrog economies and deliver a future competitive advantage. However, there are limited insights into how innovation activity in precincts takes place. In particular, the factors that enable successful innovation precincts, how they are measured and how their locations influence improved economic outcomes. This paper presents an analysis of the important enablers of innovation precincts, with a focus on measuring the relative importance of these enablers and their contribution to innovation and economic outcomes. A novel mixed-methods approach involving the use of a ‘double-blind doubled-scoring’ methodology and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) are applied to score and determine the relative importance of enablers of innovation precincts. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 732-756 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2144427 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2144427 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:732-756 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2019609_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Chris Leishman Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Leishman Author-Name: Weidong Liang Author-X-Name-First: Weidong Author-X-Name-Last: Liang Title: An alternative approach to estimating agglomeration and productivity using geography, demography and evidence from satellite imagery Abstract: In this article we combine novel geographical, demographic and satellite data with an instrumental variables (IVs) estimation approach to tackle a thorny set of data and econometric issues. Studies of agglomeration effects on economic productivity at the city scale have been growing in popularity in both the literature and the interests of urban policymakers in recent years. Despite growing sophistication in econometric approaches, underlying weaknesses in the quality and availability of data at the city scale have hindered efforts to unravel the endogeneity issues, or circularity between city scale, amenity and productivity. We set out both to extend the agglomeration literature to the case of Australia – which hitherto has been lightly studied in this field – and to take advantage of Australia’s unique geography and reliance on migration to drive population change. We also draw on satellite data measuring night-time luminosity as a proxy for economic productivity. We demonstrate the construction of convincing and robust IVs that proxy for population at the city scale. Our econometric estimates indicate that a 1% increase in city populations causes productivity to be enhanced by 0.24–1.70% on average. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 45-65 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.2019609 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.2019609 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:45-65 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2067005_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Berna Keskin Author-X-Name-First: Berna Author-X-Name-Last: Keskin Title: Multilevel approach to the analysis of housing submarkets Abstract: There is a vast literature that seeks to define and identify spatial submarkets in metropolitan housing systems. These tend to use one of three methods to delineate submarkets: a priori geographies, ad hoc subdivision and data-driven approaches to grouping units. Recently, analysts have increasingly used multilevel modelling strategies to analyse spatial segmentation in the housing market. Despite the increasing prevalence of multilevel approaches, there is no existing systematic analysis of which of these three main approaches to submarket definition has the greatest effectiveness when employed in a multilevel modelling framework. This paper addresses the gap in the literature by comparing the utility of these main approaches to submarket definition. It develops and evaluates three separate, distinct multilevel models of submarkets to a data set comprising 2175 transactions in the Istanbul housing market of Turkey, an emergent market context. The results show that multilevel models with a priori submarket dummy variable can predict price more accurately than the models with ad hoc subdivision or data-driven stratified submarkets. Similarly, test results indicate that multilevel models with neighbourhood submarket dummy variables (a priori) perform better than other models. These test results show that granular definition of submarkets tend to perform better in terms of predictive accuracy than less spatially granular models. The paper also suggests that real estate agents’ views of submarket structures might be particularly useful as inputs into micro-modelling processes in contexts where datasets are thin. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 264-279 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2067005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2067005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:264-279 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2120413_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Moritz Breul Author-X-Name-First: Moritz Author-X-Name-Last: Breul Title: Setting the course for future diversification: the development of a regional transformation strategy in a German lignite mining region Abstract: Regions throughout the world are confronted with the challenge of restructuring their economies when existing growth paths decline. In regional strategies, directions are defined into which their economies shall be developed, thereby constituting a crucial moment for setting the course for future diversification. While considerable progress has been made in retrospectively understanding regional industrial path developments once these have emerged successfully, little attention has been paid to the processes by which regions develop strategies for future diversification. This article argues that in order to understand why a region aims to develop certain economic areas rather than others, this has to be seen in the context of the policymaking process. Based on a case study of the German lignite mining region ‘Rheinisches Revier’, the paper explores the role played by the configuration of regional policymaking processes, in which regions develop strategies, for the direction of these strategies. The findings highlight that regional strategies have to be understood as the product of a region-specific multi-actor process whose configuration affects the policy outcomes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 581-599 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2120413 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2120413 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:581-599 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2125824_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Miguel González-Leonardo Author-X-Name-First: Miguel Author-X-Name-Last: González-Leonardo Author-Name: Francisco Rowe Author-X-Name-First: Francisco Author-X-Name-Last: Rowe Title: Visualizing internal and international migration in the Spanish provinces during the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: Drawing on register records from 2019 to 2021, we analyse the impact of COVID-19 on internal and international migration across the 50 Spanish provinces (NUTS-3 regions). Our results show that net-international migration declined in all the provinces during the pandemic, particularly in high-population-density areas. Certain depopulated provinces registered significant positive net-internal migration rates, while the most populous areas displayed population losses through internal migration. Generally, the total migration balance decreased in most provinces, primarily driven by the drop in international migration. Changes in internal and international migration persisted over time, although patterns tended to converge to pre-pandemic levels in late 2021. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 600-602 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2125824 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2125824 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:600-602 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2047769_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Martin Holicka Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Holicka Author-Name: Tara Vinodrai Author-X-Name-First: Tara Author-X-Name-Last: Vinodrai Title: The global geography of investment in emerging technologies: the case of blockchain firms Abstract: Scholars have long been interested in where new technologies and industries emerge. This regional graphic examines the emergence of one such technology: blockchain. We developed a global database of blockchain firms, as well as capturing investment rounds at the firm level, using Crunchbase, a well-accepted source of information on technology firms. We geocoded the dataset and created original network data at the city-region level to capture investment interactions. We find that blockchain firms are located in cities around the world. However, firms receiving investments are concentrated in a small number of global city-regions, with Silicon Valley, New York, Singapore, London, and Beijing accounting for half of all investments. Moreover, there appear to be supra-regional networks, suggesting that new technology firms continue to concentrate in a handful of interconnected world cities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 177-179 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2047769 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2047769 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:177-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2135458_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Francisco Rowe Author-X-Name-First: Francisco Author-X-Name-Last: Rowe Title: Using digital footprint data to monitor human mobility and support rapid humanitarian responses Abstract: Global warming is increasing the frequency of extreme weather events leading to an increased risk of large-scale population displacements. Since June 2022, Pakistan has recorded destructive flash flooding resulting from melting glaciers and torrential monsoon rainfall. Emergency responses have documented flood-related deaths, injuries and damaged infrastructure – less is known about population displacements resulting from recent floods. Information about these populations and mobility is critical to ensure the appropriate delivery of humanitarian assistance where it is most needed. Lack of granular spatial data in real time has been a key barrier. This article uses digital footprint data from Meta Facebook to identify the patterns of population displacement in Pakistan in near-real time. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 665-668 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2135458 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2135458 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:665-668 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2059393_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Louis H. Amato Author-X-Name-First: Louis H. Author-X-Name-Last: Amato Author-Name: Richard J. Cebula Author-X-Name-First: Richard J. Author-X-Name-Last: Cebula Author-Name: John E. Connaughton Author-X-Name-First: John E. Author-X-Name-Last: Connaughton Title: State productivity and economic growth Abstract: This study uses Bureau of Economic Analysis data on state-level productivity levels and growth rates over the period 1977–2019. We find that states with relatively high productivity tend to experience somewhat lower productivity growth over time, whereas states with relatively lower productivity experience somewhat higher productivity growth over time. We find compelling evidence for significant contributions from education (in the form of a college degree) as well as the role played by higher growth rates in the state-level Hispanic population as factors contributing to increased productivity. Worker/labour productivity constitutes a good indicator of changes to wages and living standards. Empirically examining interstate differences in state-level worker productivity growth across different time intervals helps to identify factors that influence geographical differentials in productivity as well as aids in the identification of the specific factors that determine rates of productivity growth and decline. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 180-203 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2059393 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2059393 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:180-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2017337_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Grzegorz Micek Author-X-Name-First: Grzegorz Author-X-Name-Last: Micek Author-Name: Krzysztof Gwosdz Author-X-Name-First: Krzysztof Author-X-Name-Last: Gwosdz Author-Name: Arkadiusz Kocaj Author-X-Name-First: Arkadiusz Author-X-Name-Last: Kocaj Author-Name: Agnieszka Sobala-Gwosdz Author-X-Name-First: Agnieszka Author-X-Name-Last: Sobala-Gwosdz Author-Name: Agnieszka Świgost-Kapocsi Author-X-Name-First: Agnieszka Author-X-Name-Last: Świgost-Kapocsi Title: The role of critical conjunctures in regional path creation: a study of Industry 4.0 in the Silesia region Abstract: Conceptualizations of path creation proposed in recent years neglect the role of time and temporal mechanisms. This paper argues that a more comprehensive understanding of inter-path relations that incorporates both agency and relationships among temporal sequences can be achieved using the concept of critical conjuncture, which is overlooked in the contemporary path-creation literature. This paper draws on a case study of the industrial region of Upper Silesia, Poland, where a new regional trajectory is emerging as the result of the unpredicted critical conjuncture of the endogenously driven path of the information technology services sector and the exogenous foreign direct investment-based path of the automotive industry. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 23-44 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.2017337 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.2017337 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:23-44 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2081597_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Baumgartinger-Seiringer Title: The role of powerful incumbent firms: shaping regional industrial path development through change and maintenance agency Abstract: This article seeks to advance perspectives on powerful incumbent firms in (new) regional industrial path development. Drawing on recent insights from transition studies, it is argued that this actor group – hitherto often portrayed in a rather one-sided manner – plays a crucial role in shaping the pace and direction of regional path development through agency oriented towards both change and maintenance. Building on systemic perspectives at the intersection of evolutionary economic geography and innovation studies, a particular emphasis is placed on incumbent firms’ interventions to reconfigure or stabilize their surrounding regional innovation system to support their intentions. To this end, this article examines how incumbents exert their influence through various forms of power as means by which they promote or hinder regional industrial change. Empirically, the role of incumbent firms in three traditional automotive regions in Austria is investigated. It is shown how they leverage their power to propel the industry’s digitalization and suppress its decarbonization. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 390-408 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2081597 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2081597 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:390-408 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2013732_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Youjing Li Author-X-Name-First: Youjing Author-X-Name-Last: Li Author-Name: Ecem Sungur Author-X-Name-First: Ecem Author-X-Name-Last: Sungur Author-Name: Andres Jimenez Author-X-Name-First: Andres Author-X-Name-Last: Jimenez Author-Name: Shauna Brail Author-X-Name-First: Shauna Author-X-Name-Last: Brail Title: Covid-19, urban economic resilience and the pandemic pivot: Toronto’s restaurant scene Abstract: Restaurants, fundamental to Toronto’s urban and cultural economy, experienced significant disruption because of extended closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. We examine data harvested from Yelp Business Search Endpoint on restaurant openings and closures in Toronto between May 2020 and May 2021. Our analysis shows that, despite expectations to the contrary, more restaurants opened than closed during this time. Geographically, similar numbers of restaurants both opened and closed in the city’s downtown core, demonstrating that early pandemic predictions suggesting the end of concentration are exaggerated. Overall, restaurants and restaurateurs exhibited resilience during the pandemic. We attribute this resilience, in part, to an ability to pivot to takeout-friendly foods, digital ordering and delivery and because of government funding supports. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.2013732 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.2013732 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2072762_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Cong Wang Author-X-Name-First: Cong Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Yifan Lu Author-X-Name-First: Yifan Author-X-Name-Last: Lu Title: Regional favouritism and education development Abstract: Regional studies have found significant agglomeration effects of education development on economic growth. Regional favouritism is potentially closely related to public investment in education, further impacting regional growth. This paper provides significant empirical evidence on the potential impact of favouritism on education development in the Chinese context. Using data for 282 Chinese cities from 1996 to 2016 with treatment for endogeneity (Lewbel two-stage least squares estimator), the results provide evidence that Chinese provincial political leaders favour their birthplaces’ education resource development, and that the effect is larger for within-provincial impact and higher tier cities ranked by income. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 302-319 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2072762 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2072762 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:302-319 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2067004_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Melissa Nursey-Bray Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Author-X-Name-Last: Nursey-Bray Author-Name: Md. Masud-All-Kamal Author-X-Name-First: Md. Author-X-Name-Last: Masud-All-Kamal Author-Name: Mirco Di Giacomo Author-X-Name-First: Mirco Author-X-Name-Last: Di Giacomo Author-Name: Simon Millcock Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Millcock Title: Building community resilience through youth volunteering: towards a new model Abstract: Australian regional communities are changing. The combined impact of out-migration and ageing populations means that the capacity of regional communities to function as they traditionally have is challenged. In this context, volunteer effort remains a vital part of building community resilience and social capital. Yet, volunteering per se is under threat, and encouraging young people to volunteer an even greater challenge. This paper presents the results of a project that sought to understand the barriers to, and incentives for, youth volunteering at three regional local government areas in South Australia. First, we find that despite a popular conviction that youth volunteering is on the decline, it has in fact increased; the actual decline is with those volunteers who are within the 35–55-year age groups. Second, we found that two models of volunteering exist in the regions: (1) volunteering as an activity involving participation on committees or doing regular primarily public good group-based work (e.g., emergency services, Rotary, conservation); and (2) event-based, one-off, fun activities (sometimes, but not always, for the broader public good). Volunteering per se, however, was considered by all participants as central to community identity. Culture, sports and youth clubs emerged as important hubs for youth activity and potential volunteer recruitment. We suggest a new model for regional youth volunteering that prioritizes events, partnerships and social media, as well as using existing institutions as bridging organizations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 242-263 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2067004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2067004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:242-263 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2074306_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Danai-Maria Kontou Author-X-Name-First: Danai-Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Kontou Title: Developing polar data-cylinders to map spatiotemporal changes in Arctic sea ice Abstract: Complex ecosystems characterize the Arctic Region, which experiences rapid environmental changes due to climate change. These changes are happening spatially as much as temporally. Spatiotemporal interactive three-dimensional visualization of environmental phenomena is eye-catching, while creating the foundations for the rapid understanding of Arctic complexity. The Arctic is a circumpolar region; cylinders seem suitable visual media for related data. In this case study, the visualization of anomalies of the sea ice illustrates abnormal changes, helping the viewer/user to focus on that filtered information rather than becoming lost in a multitude of information. A holistic view of dynamic environmental changes in a stand-alone visual could impact the quick understanding, response and policymaking regarding the visualized phenomena. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 320-323 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2074306 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2074306 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:320-323 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2029552_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Henrik Brynthe Lund Author-X-Name-First: Henrik Brynthe Author-X-Name-Last: Lund Author-Name: Sigurd Sagen Vildåsen Author-X-Name-First: Sigurd Sagen Author-X-Name-Last: Vildåsen Title: The influence of Industry 4.0 narratives on regional path development Abstract: Industry 4.0 has become a key concept and buzzword in the global manufacturing industry. This paper argues that the concept has created an Industry 4.0 narrative that is having a decisive impact on the industry. The paper combines the literatures on the sociology of expectations and regional path development to develop an analytical framework which is employed in an analysis of the Raufoss region in Norway. We find that the expectations created by the global Industry 4.0 narrative have trickled down into national industry and innovation policies. This has resulted in the anchoring of innovation schemes, development of new educational provisions and generated technological capability building among manufacturers in the Raufoss region. In turn, we argue that these actions have enabled regional path extension. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 82-92 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2029552 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2029552 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:82-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2082316_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Andrew Taylor Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor Author-Name: James Thurmer Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Thurmer Author-Name: David Karácsonyi Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Karácsonyi Title: Regional demographic and economic challenges for sustaining growth in Northern Australia Abstract: Stimulating economic and population growth in northern Australia has been a long-term pursuit for the Australian Government, where the north has historically been the focus for centrally derived regional development policies. Most refer to untapping the purportedly vast opportunities of the resources and tourism sectors, and growth in the Asian middle-class in Australia’s proximate north. In 2015 the Australian government detailed an ambitious policy for ‘developing the north’ during the period 2015–60. This includes targets to dramatically grow the population and a list of five industries with ‘bright growth prospects’. However, regional develpment literature underscores there have been many impediments to generating sustained growth in northern regions of developed countries. This study is the first to evaluate baseline conditions and progress towards the aims and targets in the Australian regional growth policy. We develop key analytical indicators and provide analysis by 11 subregions within Northern Australia to ascertain the extent and implications of indicator diversity. The results highlight challenges for the policy’s aims as well as regional differences in the compositions of economies and populations. In demonstrating the incorrect and implied assertion of regional homogeneity, and by demonstrating that some targets were destined to fail from inception, we underscore the importance of knowledge about localized demographic and economic conditions in policy formulation. This brings into play the important question of whether high-growth policies for northern regions is desired by the longer term resident population, and most particularly the relatively large population of Indigenous northern residents. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 425-445 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2082316 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2082316 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:425-445 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2137426_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Paweł Gajewski Author-X-Name-First: Paweł Author-X-Name-Last: Gajewski Title: Regional resilience to the Covid-19 shock in Polish regions: how is it different from resilience to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis? Abstract: The world economy has experienced two major economic shocks over the past 15 years: the Global Financial Crisis of 2008–09 and the Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to link regional economies’ resilience to these extreme events while investigating the regional determinants of resistance to the Covid-19 shock and accounting for spatial spillovers. A total of 380 Polish NUTS-4 regions are analysed using spatial modelling techniques. Our primary finding is that the regional economic resistance to the 2008–09 global crisis and that of the Covid-19 pandemic are positively related. Specifically, the regions that were less affected by the first wave of the global crisis in 2009 were also more resistant to the Covid-19 shock in 2020, despite the fundamentally different anatomies of these shocks. Moreover, we find that the regions with higher production per capita were less resistant to the Covid-19 shock. This result could be attributed to the fact that industrial clusters are often integrated into global value chains, which were severely affected by the 2020 pandemic. Finally, we show that regions with a higher share of agricultural employment were generally more resistant to the Covid-19 shock, although the specifics of this sector in the eastern parts of Poland reduced the resistance to some extent. Generally, our results support the rationale behind the explicit modelling of spatial spillovers in the context of investigating regional resilience. We find that spatial spillovers in the resistance to the Covid-19 shock are significant and positive. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 672-684 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2137426 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2137426 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:672-684 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2074307_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Sharif Rasel Author-X-Name-First: Sharif Author-X-Name-Last: Rasel Author-Name: Wim J. M. Heijman Author-X-Name-First: Wim J. M. Author-X-Name-Last: Heijman Author-Name: Stijn Reinhard Author-X-Name-First: Stijn Author-X-Name-Last: Reinhard Title: Economic geography and entrepreneurial diversification in the agricultural sector Abstract: Taking concepts from economic geography, this study decomposes locational factors as ‘first-nature’ and ‘second-nature’ geography, and argues that the second-nature geography, which is the concentration of entrepreneurial activities, helps entrepreneurs to discover entrepreneurial opportunities and gives them an incentive to integrate business with supporting activities in close proximity due to pecuniary and technological externalities. This study has taken the agricultural sector as the context of its research, and finds that the agricultural entrepreneurship literature has neglected the impact of the second-nature geography. Findings from the Netherlands show that the higher the concentration of entrepreneurial diversification in a region, the greater the likelihood that a farmer undertakes entrepreneurship on the farm. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 347-370 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2074307 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2074307 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:347-370 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2060132_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Leibo Cui Author-X-Name-First: Leibo Author-X-Name-Last: Cui Author-Name: Tao Li Author-X-Name-First: Tao Author-X-Name-Last: Li Author-Name: Jiaoe Wang Author-X-Name-First: Jiaoe Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Geovisualizing the recovery pattern of intercity mobility during the Covid-19 outbreak in China Abstract: This paper visualizes variations in the recovery patterns of intercity mobility during the Covid-19 outbreak in China using cartogram mapping. We found large regional disparities in intercity mobility recovery, with lower recovery ratios and speeds primarily concentrated in megacities and provincial capitals. Conversely, the recovery of intercity mobility was relatively high in other cities, especially in some labour-exporting cities of central and south-western China. In addition, cities in southern China showed a relatively higher recovery ratio and speed in intercity mobility than those in northern China. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 204-206 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2060132 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2060132 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:204-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2079995_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Anna Mikhaylova Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Mikhaylova Author-Name: Dmitry Hvaley Author-X-Name-First: Dmitry Author-X-Name-Last: Hvaley Author-Name: Andrey Mikhaylov Author-X-Name-First: Andrey Author-X-Name-Last: Mikhaylov Title: Geoinformation assessment of digitalization in the urban space of Kaliningrad Abstract: Cities around the globe that have residential areas spanning several eras of architecture face the challenge of developing a comfortable urban environment. New urban spaces must accommodate the needs of a modern urban dweller constantly engaged with information and communication technologies and the Internet of Things. A viable urban development strategy is the smart-city model based on a digital city ecosystem using urban informatics technologies. The study case is Kaliningrad, a city with an over 760-year history of development. We present a comparative analysis of its housing development dynamics, tourist zones and mobile internet coverage in the residential areas. Our findings identify digitally advanced and peripheral inner-city areas and, using geoinformation data, showcase the development of digital urban space. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 386-389 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2079995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2079995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:386-389 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2141655_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Jen Nelles Author-X-Name-First: Jen Author-X-Name-Last: Nelles Author-Name: Kevin Walsh Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh Author-Name: Elvis Nyanzu Author-X-Name-First: Elvis Author-X-Name-Last: Nyanzu Title: Innovation in regional graphics (and academic communication) Abstract: This editorial explores the importance and power of regional graphics for communication in both academia and practice. This journal regularly publishes regional graphics, which feature one or a series of visualizations accompanied by short text that frames the value of the research and includes methodological points. In the relatively short life of the journal, regional graphics have generated a significant amount of engagement and regularly appear on the list of most viewed and trending articles. This collection assembles a diverse range of regional graphics to showcase the variety of ways that visualizations can be used to convey regional arguments, to raise the profile of this type of contribution to Regional Studies, Regional Science and to highlight innovations in visualizations that can also be used to enhance standard length articles and academic engagement beyond this medium. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 727-731 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2141655 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2141655 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:727-731 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2095298_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Abel Rodriguez Tirado Author-X-Name-First: Abel Author-X-Name-Last: Rodriguez Tirado Title: Visualizing the impact of Covid-19 on economic complexity clusters: the case of Mexico Abstract: In response to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, the Mexican government implemented lockdown and business closure measures to minimize the spread of the disease. This graphic shows whether under those measures the clusters of economic complexity – a measure of the diversification of economic activities, particularly those that are highly sophisticated – have changed relative to the period before the Covid-19 pandemic. The visualization shows a notable reduction in economic complexity clusters during 2020 and a rapid increase in 2021. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 519-522 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2095298 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2095298 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:519-522 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2016071_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Jacob Irving Author-X-Name-First: Jacob Author-X-Name-Last: Irving Author-Name: Andrew Beer Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Author-Name: Sally Weller Author-X-Name-First: Sally Author-X-Name-Last: Weller Author-Name: Tom Barnes Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Barnes Title: Plant closures in Australia’s automotive industry: continuity and change Abstract: This paper explores the possibility of using diachronic case study comparisons to shed light on continuity and change in policy interventions to manage plant closures. It compares the early results of a survey of workers retrenched in the 2017 closure of Australia’s passenger vehicle manufacturing industry with the results of a similar survey of workers who lost their jobs in the 2005 closure of Mitsubishi’s Adelaide engine-casting and components plant. Despite the 12 years of accumulated expertise in plant closure and structural adjustment management, this comparison shows remarkable similarities in the profile of the cohort of retrenched workers and remarkable similarities in their employment outcomes. The discussion reflects on conditions that produce continuity and change. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 5-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.2016071 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.2016071 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:5-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2139194_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Ilaria Mariotti Author-X-Name-First: Ilaria Author-X-Name-Last: Mariotti Author-Name: Dante Di Matteo Author-X-Name-First: Dante Author-X-Name-Last: Di Matteo Author-Name: Federica Rossi Author-X-Name-First: Federica Author-X-Name-Last: Rossi Title: Who were the losers and winners during the Covid-19 pandemic? The rise of remote working in suburban areas Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly altered the habits and lifestyles of every citizen worldwide and will have effects in the medium to long terms. The need for ‘social distancing’ has negatively affected urban areas and encouraged a rescheduling of working methods. Knowledge-intensive activities have been massively undertaken on a large scale in remote working, mainly carried out at home. Within this context, the paper explores the changes in working modalities towards remote working by focusing on the Lombardy region in north-west Italy. Specifically, it explores the renewed suitability of the municipalities outside the regional capital city of Milan with regard to remote workers during the pandemic and compares it with the period before the pandemic, and also it analyses which determinants play a role. The results show that municipalities closer to Milan with a strong broadband connection, a high concentration of knowledge workers and foreign immigrants are more suitable for hosting remote workers. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 685-708 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2139194 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2139194 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:685-708 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2081598_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Nora Hampl Author-X-Name-First: Nora Author-X-Name-Last: Hampl Title: Consume less or grow sustainably? Matching energy systems with Indigenous worldviews in Panama Abstract: This article explores how energy systems, if reconceptualized and reordered to deliver greater equity, could exponentially improve livelihoods and livelihood pathways of Panama’s Ngäbe and Buglé communities which currently lack energy access. Inevitably, the choice of energy systems and related infrastructures will not only bring benefits, but also impose burdens on local ecosystems as well as communities living near project sites. In biodiversity-rich Indigenous contexts, including Panama’s comarcas, making informed decisions about energy systems that are yet to be developed, implies understanding the impacts and potential risks of embedding such technical systems into areas with high levels of biodiversity and species density, whose vulnerability will only increase with climate change. A conceptual framework used in the study combines energy justice research perspectives with the energy–water–food–climate nexus as an approach to local livelihood planning. This approach makes it possible to treat the concept of ‘energy’ within a broader framework of social–ecological systems and safe operating spaces, while applying it to a specific context (Ngäbe–Buglé comarca, Panama). In this way, the study extrapolates how energy justice issues co-relate with social–ecological inequities, and at the same time present risks for the future of the comarca, with implications for broader contexts. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 412-424 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2081598 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2081598 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:412-424 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2069510_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Haitao Ma Author-X-Name-First: Haitao Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Author-Name: Xiaodong Huang Author-X-Name-First: Xiaodong Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Title: Visualizing the urban network constructed by the most innovative enterprises in China Abstract: As important actors in innovation, global innovative enterprises have shaped the innovative pattern of the world. China’s most innovative enterprises have also transformed the innovative landscape in China. Using the location information of the 1778 most innovative enterprises in China and the headquarter–branch method, we visualized the Chinese urban network constructed by these enterprises. Although the network covers 353 cities across China, its spatial distribution is extremely uneven. A few cities dominate the structure of the network, and Beijing stands in a strong control position. Megacities and provincial capitals have become the favoured headquarter locations of innovative enterprises. The five major urban agglomerations form the uneven diamond structure in the innovation network. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 343-346 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2069510 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2069510 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:343-346 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2078737_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Helen Dinmore Author-X-Name-First: Helen Author-X-Name-Last: Dinmore Author-Name: Andrew Beer Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Title: Career degradation in Australian cities: globalization, precarity and adversity Abstract: This paper explores the impact on urban labour markets of the closure of the Australian automotive manufacturing industry through a qualitative analysis of ex-automotive workers’ experiences of redundancy and precarious work. We locate the experiences of workers inside a multidimensional concept of precarity that can be both objectively measured and subjectively produced. These findings show the need for strong policies directed at boosting the economies of affected urban communities alongside labour market programmes able to provide secure work after large-scale plant closures. Through the voices of affected workers, we demonstrate the complex ways their lives have been affected. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 371-385 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2078737 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2078737 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:371-385 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2096478_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Guy J. Abel Author-X-Name-First: Guy J. Author-X-Name-Last: Abel Author-Name: Dilek Yildiz Author-X-Name-First: Dilek Author-X-Name-Last: Yildiz Title: Closing disparities between European sending and receiving international migration flow data Abstract: Evidence-based policies to monitor and manage migration flows require accurate data. Data collection on international migration flow statistics is based on a range of data sources and measures. Discrepancies in reported migration flow data are apparent when comparing flow statistics from receiving countries on the number of arriving migrants by their country of origin with statistics from sending countries on the number of departing migrants by their country of destination. In recent decades the relative incompleteness and non-comparability in reported migration statistics have motivated a number of initiatives to improve data in European countries. In this paper we illustrate graphically the discrepancies between sending and receiving migration flow statistics provided to Eurostat by European countries. We find a reduction of the discrepancies between receiving and sending migration flow data after the implementation of regulations to improve the availability and comparability of migration data. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 523-525 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2096478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2096478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:523-525 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2063066_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Ana Carolina Iga-César Author-X-Name-First: Ana Carolina Author-X-Name-Last: Iga-César Title: The role of leadership capabilities in Smart Specialisation Strategies: comparative case studies in two Latin American regions Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the leadership implications of adopting the European Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) in a non-European context. A multiple case study compares the Latin American regions of Medellín, Colombia, and San Luis Potosí, Mexico. A variety of data collection procedures are used, including in-depth interviews with 33 relevant actors from the triple helix that participated in the S3 design. The paper contributes to the literature by identifying the leadership capabilities that lead to effective S3 in intermediate metropolitan regions, as well as the factors that foster and hinder those leadership capabilities. This paper argues that the leadership roles for S3 include a systemic perspective among a wide range of stakeholders, but also an evolutionary perspective to manage novelty and break path dependencies. Second, it argues that the degree of centralization and institutional context affect regional leadership. Finally, four leadership capabilities are suggested based on both systemic and evolutionary perspectives. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 223-241 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2063066 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2063066 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:223-241 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2111269_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Chris van Egeraat Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: van Egeraat Author-Name: Declan Curran Author-X-Name-First: Declan Author-X-Name-Last: Curran Title: Intrapreneurship and regional development in the South East of Ireland Abstract: Intrapreneurship is known to play an important role in enhancing innovation and competitiveness within firms. However, there remains a dearth of literature on the workings of intrapreneurship at the regional level. Based on a qualitative analysis of intrapreneurship in the South East Region of Ireland, this paper explores the link between intrapreneurship and regional development. It makes several contributions that further the understanding of intrapreneurship at the regional level: (1) we detail the manner in which intrapreneurship emerges in distinct corporate contexts; (2) we identify the main barriers and challenges to intrapreneurship in these different contexts; and (3) we provide evidence that sets out the relative importance of the two key routes through which intrapreneurship stimulates regional development: firm growth and new firm formation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 526-548 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2111269 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2111269 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:526-548 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2148556_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Hiroshi Ito Author-X-Name-First: Hiroshi Author-X-Name-Last: Ito Author-Name: Nobuo Kawazoe Author-X-Name-First: Nobuo Author-X-Name-Last: Kawazoe Title: Promoting urban light rail transit in a compact city context: the case of Toyama City, Japan Abstract: Cities worldwide have introduced or revived light rail transit (LRT) to develop compact city strategies and help address environmental issues, such as increasing CO2 emissions or air pollution. Toyama is such a city that has addressed these issues by establishing a compact city rooted in transportation policies, notably the LRT established in 2006. Although there appears to be a consensus that the LRT contributes to establishing a compact city, contributing factors to ridership remain unclear. This study attempts to identify these factors, using the norm-activation model and theory of planned behaviour as a theoretical grounding, questionnaires for a data collection method and structural equation modelling for data analysis. The findings suggest that attitudes, perceived behavioural control and behavioural norms are significantly associated with the intention to use the LRT, which is, along with age, associated with its actual use. Based on these findings, this study provides theoretical and practical insights for cities wanting to pursue establishing or developing an LRT system. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 776-793 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2148556 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2148556 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:776-793 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2042370_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Reto Bürgin Author-X-Name-First: Reto Author-X-Name-Last: Bürgin Author-Name: Heike Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Heike Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Author-Name: Alexander Kashev Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Kashev Author-Name: Sigve Haug Author-X-Name-First: Sigve Author-X-Name-Last: Haug Title: Far away and yet so close: urban–rural linkages in the context of multilocal work arrangements Abstract: Digital technologies allow knowledge workers to work from multiple locations in both urban and rural areas, creating urban–rural linkages. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a critical role. We used a novel mixed-methods approach to combine quantitative data from laptop and smartphone tracking with qualitative data from ethnographic walk-along observations and semi-structured interviews to analyse the creation of urban–rural linkages and temporary proximity in multilocal work arrangements. The results show that multilocal knowledge workers create urban–rural linkages on demand, thereby generating temporary proximity between the urban and the rural. Yet, the economic embedding of these workers in the rural is limited. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 110-131 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2042370 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2042370 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:110-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2130088_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Ricardo Vale Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo Author-X-Name-Last: Vale Author-Name: Petterson Vale Author-X-Name-First: Petterson Author-X-Name-Last: Vale Author-Name: Holly Gibbs Author-X-Name-First: Holly Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbs Author-Name: Daniel Pedrón Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Pedrón Author-Name: Jens Engelmann Author-X-Name-First: Jens Author-X-Name-Last: Engelmann Author-Name: Ritaumaria Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Ritaumaria Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Author-Name: Paulo Barreto Author-X-Name-First: Paulo Author-X-Name-Last: Barreto Title: Regional expansion of the beef industry in Brazil: from the coast to the Amazon, 1966–2017 Abstract: A regional approach to the study of Brazil’s beef industry is increasingly relevant as deforestation takes centre stage in policy debates worldwide. To what extent has beef production expanded toward regions hosting sensitive ecosystems such as the Amazon? Important data limitations remain to answer this question, especially regarding slaughterhouses, fundamental to the beef supply chain. This paper addresses the data gap on slaughterhouse location and history and provides novel regional analysis. We map the beef industry’s evolution into Brazil’s interior over the last six decades and quantify changes in market concentration between 2006 and 2016. To accomplish this, we triangulated across fiscal and animal sanitation data sources to produce the first longitudinal dataset with information on the opening and closing dates, locations, and production volumes of 2602 slaughterhouses. We show the linear movement of slaughterhouses and cattle herds to the Amazon by tracking their geographical centres of gravity. We also show the clustering pattern of slaughterhouses. Until the 1960s, all the geographical clusters were located south of the capital, Brasília. By the early 2000s, clusters north of Brasília were almost as extensive. Finally, we assessed the degree of market power that the largest beef-processing companies possess. The results indicate that market concentration increased in regions of more recent settlement further away from the coast, and that it remained relatively stable in states near the coast (Minas Gerais, São Paulo). The results shed light on the relationship between displacement toward the Amazon and Cerrado regions and economic concentration. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 641-664 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2130088 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2130088 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:641-664 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2025417_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Lena Greinke Author-X-Name-First: Lena Author-X-Name-Last: Greinke Author-Name: Linda Lange Author-X-Name-First: Linda Author-X-Name-Last: Lange Title: Multi-locality in rural areas – an underestimated phenomenon Abstract: Multi-locality – a lifestyle involving living in several places – is very diverse. Involving temporary presences and absences, it can impact local communities and the environment. This paper looks at the effects of multi-local lifestyles in three rural districts in Lower Saxony, Germany, evaluating quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with multi-local residents, company representatives and officials. The methods are supplemented by visualizations and reflexive photography. Multi-locals can be seen as both an opportunity and a risk for civic involvement: multi-locality makes it possible to avoid relocation, but the limited periods of presence make it unlikely for multi-locals to become involved locally. Likewise, multi-locality impacts the environment, leading to an increasing volume of traffic and higher land consumption, even if it less significant than the impact of daily commuting. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 67-81 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2021.2025417 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2021.2025417 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:67-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2150562_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Ron Martin Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Author-Name: Andy Pike Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Pike Author-Name: Peter Sunley Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Sunley Author-Name: Peter Tyler Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Tyler Author-Name: Ben Gardiner Author-X-Name-First: Ben Author-X-Name-Last: Gardiner Title: ‘Levelling up’ the UK: reinforcing the policy agenda Abstract: In early 2022, the UK government published its White Paper on Levelling Up the UK, arguably the most important spatial policy document for more than 80 years. There is much that is innovative in the White Paper, but also some key limitations and weaknesses. At a time of economic and political upheaval in the UK, it is imperative that the levelling up agenda in the White Paper is not de-prioritized or submerged by other challenges, but is used as the foundation for a truly radical approach to reducing geographical economic inequalities across the country. Our focus in this article, therefore, is one of constructive criticism, to argue how some of the fundamental aspects of the White Paper need to be reinforced and emboldened if the policy is not to fail. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 794-817 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2150562 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2150562 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:794-817 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2148555_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Emil Tomson Lindfors Author-X-Name-First: Emil Tomson Author-X-Name-Last: Lindfors Title: Radical path transformation of the Norwegian and Tasmanian salmon farming industries Abstract: This paper investigates the radicalness of industry path transformation in different geographical contexts by analysing the introduction of new technological trajectories within established industry paths. We use an analytical framework based on path dependence theory to conduct a comparative case study of the introduction of offshore farming technology in the salmon farming industry in both coastal Norway and Tasmania, Australia. We show that similar points of departure can lead to different path transformation radicalness. In each case, the transformation outcome will depend on the unique interplay between agency and regional structural components during windows of opportunity. The empirical analysis supports the importance of considering agency, regional structural components and global technology trends when investigating path transformation radicalness. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 757-775 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2148555 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2148555 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:757-775 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2046496_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Lael Walsh Author-X-Name-First: Lael Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh Title: Regional food system resilience in Ireland: a ‘Potato Effect’ Abstract: Fruit and vegetables (F&V) are nutritionally important for human health, and their perishability means that they are particularly vulnerable to supply chain delays. Ireland is a net importer of F&V. Brexit potentially heightens food system vulnerabilities for Ireland. Mapping is used to visualize the diversity of Ireland’s F&V supply across four regions of Europe and the UK. It appears that Ireland is highly reliant on the UK for F&V imports. However, when fresh potato imports, which contribute a small portion of Ireland’s potato consumption, are excluded from the analysis, Western Europe is more important for vegetable imports, and a significant supplier of other fresh food types. Options to build local food system resilience are discussed for Ireland. A graphical representation is a useful approach to investigate the impact of food system vulnerabilities and shocks such as Brexit. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 172-176 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2046496 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2046496 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:172-176 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2092418_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Jesse Sutton Author-X-Name-First: Jesse Author-X-Name-Last: Sutton Author-Name: Godwin Arku Author-X-Name-First: Godwin Author-X-Name-Last: Arku Title: Regional economic resilience: towards a system approach Abstract: This paper proposes a system approach to regional economic resilience. This approach argues that regional economies undergo, to varying degrees, changes to their economic system that result from the collective but uncoordinated action of economic actors in an attempt to be resilient to shocks. The system change, particularly focusing on changes to economies’ structure and function, which occurs during and following a shock, determines the type of resilience (i.e., engineering, ecological, evolutionary and transformative) employed by regions. The type of resilience employed can influence regions’ long-term growth trajectory and resilience to future shocks. This approach advances the examination of regions’ resilience capacity, which has largely been ignored in empirical studies of resilience. In doing so, the approach developed in this paper is heuristic rather than deterministic, with the latter characterizing the bulk of the literature. A greater investigation into system change can provide a holistic understanding of resilience. This approach has many advantages, such as developing greater insight into resilience, applying a heuristic method rather than deterministic and examining regions’ adaptive capacity. To advance the system approach, this paper provides greater conceptual clarity of resilience, highlighting the notions conceptual parameters and rethinking the oppositional context in which the four main types of resilience are commonly discussed. Specifically, it conceptualizes the main types of resilience as complementary rather than oppositional. The overall contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it establishes a greater conceptual framework of resilience. Second, it develops an approach in which regions’ adaptive capacity can be investigated. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 497-512 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2092418 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2092418 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:497-512 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2122863_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Trond Nilsen Author-X-Name-First: Trond Author-X-Name-Last: Nilsen Author-Name: Rune Njøs Author-X-Name-First: Rune Author-X-Name-Last: Njøs Title: Emergence of new industries in peripheral regions: the role of narratives in delegitimation of onshore wind in the Arctic Finnmark region Abstract: This paper discusses how narratives influence the legitimation of new industries in peripheral regions. We contribute to the literature a discussion of the emergence of green industries in peripheral regions, but particularly to the emerging debate in evolutionary economic geography on the role of legitimation in the emergence of new industries. Based on an empirical investigation of narratives regarding onshore wind in the Finnmark region in northernmost Norway, we caution against the focus in the literature on ‘successful’ legitimation, arguing that to better comprehend how new green industries emerge in regions there is a need also to understand delegitimation of new industrial activities and to investigate unsuccessful path creation processes, not only paths that have come into being and where legitimation has been ‘achieved’. Following from this we argue that our study on how representations (i.e., narratives) of emerging paths are linked to observable outcomes (e.g., delegitimation) teases out the need for further investigation of power relations, a topic that has received very little interest in research on regional industrial path development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 603-617 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2122863 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2122863 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:603-617 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2084448_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Haitao Ma Author-X-Name-First: Haitao Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: Evolutionary networks of interurban technological collaboration across Chinese city-regions Abstract: Urban agglomeration has the function of being an incubator for innovation. Previous studies have only focused on the output of innovation, ignoring the knowledge cooperation and exchange between cities, which is an important embodiment of the incubation. Compared with scientific cooperation, technical cooperation is more experimental and application oriented, requires more face-to-face communication, and is more sensitive to distance. In this paper co-patent data were selected to show the development and differences of intercity technological cooperation networks within Chinese urban agglomerations. The results show that the technical cooperation network within Chinese urban regions has generally developed rapidly in the past decade, especially those in eastern China, which have become the closest urban regions in China’s technical cooperation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 457-460 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2084448 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2084448 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:457-460 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2095299_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Bruno T. Rocha Author-X-Name-First: Bruno T. Author-X-Name-Last: Rocha Title: Long-run suburbanization trends in Portugal Abstract: Using census data from 1960 to 2021, this graphic reveals how suburban municipalities evolved from representing less than 19% of the population in mainland Portugal to almost 39%. In particular, suburban municipalities constitute the only group of municipalities for which doubling population size occurred more often than not. At the same time, Lisbon and Porto, the central cities of the two metropolitan areas, lost 32% and 24%, respectively, of their population. The paper concludes by briefly enumerating the causes of suburbanization in Portugal that have been more discussed in the literature. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 513-515 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2095299 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2095299 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:513-515 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2071165_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Rafał Gajewski Author-X-Name-First: Rafał Author-X-Name-Last: Gajewski Title: The strategic-relational formation of regional and metropolitan scales: studying two Polish regions undergoing transformation Abstract: This paper aims to capture a given spatio-temporal fix in the regional and metropolitan formation processes within two Polish regions: Lubelskie and Silesia. The strategic–relational approach (SRA) to the state analysis was adopted to discern the key elements of regional and metropolitan discourses. The wide SRA framework allows us to situate these discourses within formal and substantive dimensions of both scales, and then – using the territory–place–scale–networks (TPSN) framework – to connect them to the other aspects of socio-spatial relations. The selected regions occupy a special place within regional policy in Poland and discourse at a national level due to structural problems within their territories. Therefore, different actors have identified the need for thorough regional transformations. In turn, they should be analysed in the context of the state transformation, which began in Poland in 1989, with its currently unknown direction when it comes to the modes of regional and metropolitan policies. The results of the research prove that specific actors adopt regionally different strategies, aiming at pursuing their own goals as well as supporting regional raison d’états. At the same time, however, it is difficult to indicate evidence of political rescaling concerning the transfer of tasks and resources to the regional scale, except for its strengthening resulting from the implementation of European Union funds, which can be considered in terms of governance or meta-governance failure. The ‘stewards of hope’ image has been assigned in this context to new metropolitan-scale institutions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 280-301 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2071165 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2071165 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:280-301 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2084447_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Katie Cross Author-X-Name-First: Katie Author-X-Name-Last: Cross Author-Name: Jamie Evans Author-X-Name-First: Jamie Author-X-Name-Last: Evans Author-Name: Julie MacLeavy Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: MacLeavy Author-Name: David Manley Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Manley Title: Analysing the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19: a new regional geography or pandemic enhanced inequalities? Abstract: In the UK the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 mitigations over the course of the pandemic (March 2020 to the time of writing in January 2022) have been experienced unevenly and with differential intensities at both the regional and local scales. Using individual-level geocoded data (from the Understanding Society: UK Household Longitudinal Survey COVID-19 study) linking people to the places in which they live, we consider the regional and local disparities in the risks and outcomes of financial hardship as a result of early stage mitigations. This paper provides direct evidence from the UK of a concentration of vulnerabilities in areas of high deprivation, undermining the capacity of individuals within those areas to shelter from economic shocks. Furthermore, the geography of financial hardship appears largely compositional – attributable to the pre-existing characteristics of individuals within regions and neighbourhoods, rather than being explicitly driven by the spatial contextual effect of their social or physical environments. This has implications for UK regional economic policy, and the Levelling Up agenda in particular. It is not the regions and neighbourhoods that give rise to COVID-19 hardship per se, but the concentration of individual disadvantages of the people living within them. The persistence of compositional dis/advantages means that there is a need not only to direct ameliorative packages to the individual but also to use local areas as places where the (regional) Levelling Up agenda can break long-term place trajectories that lock in existing disparities which in turn yield unequal financial opportunities and outcomes in periods of crisis. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 461-485 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2084447 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2084447 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:461-485 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2091472_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Aireen Grace Andal Author-X-Name-First: Aireen Grace Author-X-Name-Last: Andal Title: Soundscapes of informalities Abstract: With the growth of children’s population in cities, research on children’s views about their urban lives has gained traction in the literature. Contributing to such a research agenda, this study examines the perception of slum-dwelling Filipino children of their sonic environment, which is an under-researched topic. Analysis focuses on how children’s experiences both create and are shaped by the soundscape of their slum spaces. Drawing from unstructured interviews with Filipino children (aged 9–12 years) in San Jose del Monte City, this study articulates what comprises children’s sonic environment in slums and how they make sense of their soundscapes. Findings suggest that children have a complex sonic relationship with their spaces beyond physical aspects, offering another dimension to thinking about children’s auditory encounters. This work hopes to spark conversations on how soundscapes can inform thinking about and conducting regional studies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 486-496 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2091472 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2091472 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:486-496 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2058811_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Regional Studies, Regional Science 2022 Awards Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 207-207 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2058811 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2058811 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:207-207 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2043770_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Wei Chen Author-X-Name-First: Wei Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Nyuying Wang Author-X-Name-First: Nyuying Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Visualizing the changing geographies of international trade, 2000–19 Abstract: Through globalization, countries around the world have been integrated into an interconnected economic system underpinned by international trade. Against this backdrop, this paper visualizes the evolving patterns of world trade geographies from 2000 to 2019. The maps show that the global trade centres have transformed from the two traditional major trading circles of North America and the European Union to the present three major trading circles of North America, the European Union and the Asia-Pacific region, along with the rapid rise of East Asian economies centred on China, Japan and South Korea. At the same time, some emerging economies have significantly increased their status in the world trade system. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 132-134 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2022 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2043770 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2043770 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:132-134 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2231508_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Nanthini Nagarajah Author-X-Name-First: Nanthini Author-X-Name-Last: Nagarajah Title: The geography of sustainability transition and materiality: grid-tied solar photovoltaic technology in Sri Lanka Abstract: The geography of sustainability transition (GeoST) literature views solar photovoltaic (PV) as an off-the-shelf, footloose, absolute technology for bringing about a technological shift in locations with high solar irradiation. Herein, I argue against viewing solar technology in these ways, highlighting that consideration should also be given to the configuration of solar PV that suits the contextual conditions. To this end, I offer empirical evidence for the need to approach solar PV diffusion through a relational perspective. Accordingly, different solar PV technology formats may become necessary for its successful implementation in diverse contexts. Supportive empirical evidence comes from Sri Lanka’s large-scale grid-tied solar PV implementation. I conclude the paper with an analytical consideration of the influence of material factors as being as important within GeoST as that of intangible factors, and that technological shift should be pursued within a location’s contextual relational materiality. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 703-722 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2231508 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2231508 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:703-722 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2278573_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Timothy Pape Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Pape Title: Visualising relational values in a region: how two conservation stakeholder groups in the US Northwest conceive of their relationships with the land Abstract: Many conservation programmes pay property owners for land use practices which deliver certain ecosystem services, yet there can be enrolment challenges. Consequently, this paper visualises how two stakeholder groups in the US Northwest involved with a conservation programme (enrollers and enrolees) conceive of their relationships with the land. This regional graphic is an example for how to visually express complex qualitative data in an accessible fashion using geographic and tag cloud methodologies. Graphics of this type can be used to improve understanding of the variety of ways that people value nature at the public-private nexus of conservation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 870-872 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2278573 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2278573 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:870-872 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2206887_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Andrea Porras-Paez Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Porras-Paez Title: ‘Take it easy’: how informal institutions shape an emerging economy Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Abstract: While it is widely acknowledged that entrepreneurial processes are embedded in an institutional framework, understanding exactly how institutions impact Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) remains a challenge. This is especially the case for informal institutions, and in particular those not directly related to entrepreneurship support. This paper contributes to this gap by addressing the question: How can an informal institution – not directly related to entrepreneurship support – shape entrepreneurial processes within an EE? It relies on a qualitative case study of a regional EE in Colombia, drawing on direct observation, semi-structured interviews, and secondary data analysis. ‘Take it easy’ was identified as an informal institution of the Colombian Caribbean where the analysed EE is located. Contrary to expectations, ‘take it easy’ does not refer to laziness; rather, it refers to doing things calmly, including conflict avoidance and an a preference for entertainment. While ‘take it easy’ is specific to this case study, the notion that informal institutions linked to individual agency and behaviour affect EE performance applies to any context. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 581-591 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2206887 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2206887 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:581-591 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2205919_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Mikyoung Cho Author-X-Name-First: Mikyoung Author-X-Name-Last: Cho Author-Name: Young-Long Kim Author-X-Name-First: Young-Long Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Title: Do inter-firm networks sustain the resilience of regional industrial ecosystems? A network-based analysis of the South Korean automotive industry Abstract: Firms may grow and decline, and their impact on the regional economy can be attributed not only to each firm but also to their inter-firm networks in the region. Therefore, firms and their connectivity should be understood within the context of the regional industrial ecosystem. To empirically show the role of inter-firm networks for the sustainability of the regional industrial ecosystem, this study analyses the automotive industry in South Korea. The Automobile Parts Yearbook, the main data source for the study, provides the addresses of 892 firms and the connectivity between five major automakers and their subcontractors. A network-based approach is chosen to untangle the complex production network and compare the network structure by region. Specifically, the number of nodes, links and connections, as well as density and modularity measures, are analytically compared across six sub-regions in the country. There are more links within the groups than between the groups, which suggests preferential attachment in the network structure. Multiple centralised structures are observed to exist around the five major automakers in sub-regions in South Korea. The empirical results of the paper imply that firms with multiple trading networks in the regional industrial ecosystem tend to recover from an industrial crisis or employment shock crisis more successfully than companies with a single trading network. Overall, these findings highlight the importance of understanding the role of inter-firm networks in regional industrial ecosystems for promoting sustainability and resilience. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 569-580 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2205919 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2205919 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:569-580 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2195465_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Irina D. Turgel Author-X-Name-First: Irina D. Author-X-Name-Last: Turgel Author-Name: Elizaveta A. Ulyanova Author-X-Name-First: Elizaveta A. Author-X-Name-Last: Ulyanova Title: Comparative analysis of the role of second-tier cities in the development of European countries and Russia Abstract: In this article, we discuss the role of second-tier cities in the socio-economic and innovative development of countries. A methodological approach is proposed for carrying out a comparative analysis of the contribution of second-tier and capital cities in the national settlement systems of Europe and Russia. The proposed approach was tested by analysing the contribution of second-tier cities to the demographic development of several countries. In European countries, a more homogeneous distribution of the population between capitals and second-tier cities was observed. This finding indicates a higher competitiveness of European cities in comparison, for example, with Russian cities in terms of human capital attraction and retention. In Russia, the national settlement system traditionally pivots around Moscow and St. Petersburg. On the other hand, the population dynamics of second cities in Eastern Europe is negative for most countries, thereby indicating a migration outflow of their inhabitants toward national capitals. The conducted comparison of the key economic indicators (GDP and GDP per capita) of urbanized areas in all analysed countries showed second-tier cities to be less competitive than national capitals. In this respect, European cities seem to be more successful on a national scale compared to Russian cities with a population of over one million people. The contribution of second-tier cities to innovative development is higher in Western European countries, compared to Eastern Europe, where the innovation potential is largely concentrated in capitals. In terms of this indicator, Russia occupies an intermediate position. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 604-624 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2195465 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2195465 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:604-624 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2190406_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Lyrian Daniel Author-X-Name-First: Lyrian Author-X-Name-Last: Daniel Author-Name: Emma Baker Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Author-Name: Andrew Beer Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Author-Name: Rebecca Bentley Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Author-X-Name-Last: Bentley Title: Australian rental housing standards: institutional shifts to reprioritize the housing–health nexus Abstract: A large proportion of Australia’s housing stock offered for private rental or socially let is of poor quality, which has implications for residents’ health and well-being. This problem has arisen from historically weak regulation of housing standards and under-investment in public housing services, both features of Australia’s neoliberal housing regime. In this paper, we reviewed the institutional contexts of two policy settings used to address problems of housing quality: the Homes Act 2018 (UK) and the Healthy Homes Guarantee Act 2017 (Aotearoa–New Zealand). From these two case studies, five institutional shifts required to reprioritize the housing–health nexus in Australia were synthesized: (1) policy objectives should explicitly link housing conditions and health outcomes; (2) community awareness and sector advocacy should be harnessed to overcome complex structures of government; (3) policy approaches should foster collective social responsibility; (4) mandatory requirements should be made transparent and objective; and (5) robust protocols for tracking progress should be developed and applied. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 461-470 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2190406 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2190406 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:461-470 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2186803_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Ricard Esparza Masana Author-X-Name-First: Ricard Author-X-Name-Last: Esparza Masana Author-Name: Pol Montemayor Cejas Author-X-Name-First: Pol Author-X-Name-Last: Montemayor Cejas Title: Repeating partners and partnerships in European Territorial Cooperation: a quantitative analysis Abstract: European Territorial Cooperation programmes (also known as Interreg) are designed to promote integration by encouraging organizations in multiple regions to work together on projects to address shared challenges. While some key aspects of these programmes have been studied (territorial scope, thematic areas, types of initiatives), research into participant organizations and their logic within partnerships (groups of organizations working together on projects) and the reasons for their participation in multiple projects, individually or in clusters, has been less thorough. This article presents a quantitative analysis of programmes under Interreg B and C, investigating the variables that influence organizations’ involvement in partnerships and the logic behind repeated collaborations. The aim is to supplement existing research, complementing it and supporting providing a better understanding of this framework to programme planners, enabling them to make more informed decisions when aiming to maximize the impact of their programmes when considering partners and partnerships. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 369-393 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2186803 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2186803 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:369-393 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2241545_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Norida Vanegas-Chinchilla Author-X-Name-First: Norida Author-X-Name-Last: Vanegas-Chinchilla Title: Informality as a multifactor approach: evidence from mototaxi drivers in Colombia Abstract: This study explores the diverse range of activities undertaken by informal workers and the ways in which these activities can differ in terms of their degree of informality. The methodology is qualitative, based on a case study of mototaxi drivers in Cartagena, Colombia, in order to achieve a more complete description and a holistic analysis of the phenomenon. The paper offers a novel multilevel perspective of informality that encompasses not only legal status but also social and economic aspects, and proposes an integrated approach to understanding informality that accounts for the range of activities undertaken by informal actors. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 750-762 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2241545 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2241545 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:750-762 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2204143_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Daragh O’Leary Author-X-Name-First: Daragh Author-X-Name-Last: O’Leary Author-Name: Justin Doran Author-X-Name-First: Justin Author-X-Name-Last: Doran Author-Name: Bernadette Power Author-X-Name-First: Bernadette Author-X-Name-Last: Power Title: Urbanisation, concentration and diversification as determinants of firm births and deaths Abstract: This paper examines the impact of urbanisation, concentration and diversification on firm births and firm deaths across European regions while uniquely accounting for the role of firm interrelationships, regional factors and national fixed effects. A 3SLS model on firm births and deaths is estimated across 196 regions and 16 European countries from 2008 to 2017. We find that density positively influences firm births and negatively influences firm deaths. Related variety positively impacts firm deaths and negatively affects firm births. Significant national variations are also observed. Multiplier effects are identified within and across regions as firm births positively influence future firm births and negatively influence future firm deaths. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 506-528 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2204143 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2204143 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:506-528 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2180425_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Hiroshi Ito Author-X-Name-First: Hiroshi Author-X-Name-Last: Ito Author-Name: Nobuo Kawazoe Author-X-Name-First: Nobuo Author-X-Name-Last: Kawazoe Title: Examining transportation mode changes during COVID-19 in Toyama, Japan Abstract: Although the coronavirus disease of 2019 arguably changed citizens’ transportation mode choices, how these choices changed and what factors influenced them, especially during the soft intervention period, remains ambiguous. To clarify this phenomenon, this study examined how citizens’ socio-demographic and psychological factors contributed to their transportation mode changes (public transportation, active transportation: walking and cycling, and cars) between 2019 and 2020. We employed the extended theory of the norm activation model and the value–attitude–behaviour hierarchy, surveyed 973 citizens in Toyama City, Japan, and applied a confirmatory factor analysis and a multinomial logistic regression model. Regarding psychological characteristics, the findings showed that those with positive attitudes toward public transportation tended to shift to public transportation; those with high personal norms for car use tended to shift to public transportation; those with perceived behavioural control over car use tended not to change to public transportation; and those with positive attitudes toward car use tended not to shift to active transportation. Socio-demographically, respondents who were female, highly educated and/or whose income decreased from the previous year tended to shift to active transportation. Age was not significantly associated with transportation mode changes. No significant variable was found between respondents’ shift to cars and socio-demographic and psychological factors. Our study provides implications, suggesting that policymakers focus on adopting measures to retain female or highly educated individuals in the active transportation mode use even beyond the pandemic period, while raising awareness among men, informing them of the health benefits of the active transportation mode and establishing active transportation mode-friendly infrastructure. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 253-272 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2180425 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2180425 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:253-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2155563_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Giuseppe Celi Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Author-X-Name-Last: Celi Author-Name: Edgardo Sica Author-X-Name-First: Edgardo Author-X-Name-Last: Sica Title: Globalization and internal migration: evidence from inter-provincial mobility in Vietnam Abstract: This paper explores the link between globalization and internal mobility in Vietnam. We find that Vietnam’s internationalization processes have an asymmetric economic impact on the provinces. Using data on inter-provincial migration flows, we show that this asymmetry is also detectable in terms of differences in the levels of provincial attraction vis-à-vis internal migration. In particular, provinces receiving higher foreign direct investment are found to be the most attractive for internal migrants. The existence of a pull-through effect associated with migrant networks also emerges in our findings. Overall, the results corroborate the idea that globalization processes are key determinants of internal migration flows. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-19 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2155563 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2155563 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:1-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2186804_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Sara Moccia Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Moccia Author-Name: Luca Pennacchio Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Pennacchio Title: Regional entrepreneurship and the structure of the banking market Abstract: This paper investigates whether local banking market structure affects regional entrepreneurship, measured by new firm formation. Considering provincial data over the period 2011–21 in Italy, we found that bank concentration and firm formation had an inverted ‘U’-shaped relationship. Lower levels of bank concentration fostered firm formation, but above a market share of about 58% for the largest banks, which is seen in the South and some peripheral and inner areas of central and northern Italy, increased concentration reduced firm formation. However, the presence of local banks is beneficial for the birth of new firms and can reduce the negative impact of high concentration. These findings suggest that banking market structure plays an important role in shaping regional entrepreneurship. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 394-417 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2186804 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2186804 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:394-417 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2261523_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Yannis Psycharis Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Psycharis Author-Name: Vassilis Tselios Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis Author-X-Name-Last: Tselios Author-Name: Panagiotis Pantazis Author-X-Name-First: Panagiotis Author-X-Name-Last: Pantazis Title: The geographical dimension of income inequality in Greece: evolution and the ‘turning point’ after the economic crisis Abstract: This paper analyses the geographical variations in income level and income inequality in Greece over a long time period allowing comparisons between pre- and during the economic and fiscal crisis periods. The analysis is based on a novel database that includes individual micro-data of declared and taxable income aggregated at municipal level over the period 2002–14. Results indicate that economic crisis and fiscal reforms changed substantially both inter- and intra-municipal/interpersonal income inequalities. The geographies of income inequality are subject to the period of analysis, type of municipality and level of income. The geographies of inequality question the fairness and inclusiveness of the implemented reforms during the recession. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 798-819 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2261523 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2261523 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:798-819 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2247478_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Rima Mondal Author-X-Name-First: Rima Author-X-Name-Last: Mondal Title: Inter-temporal co-evolution of divergent economic activities and spatial economic resilience embedded in informal institutions Abstract: The emergence of divergent economic activities in the context of developing economies characterised by institutional voids and market failure is a result of changes in the institutional environment and institutional arrangements. This study provides an inter-temporal framework for understanding the emergence of economic activities, institutional change, path dependence, and spatial economic resilience mediated by continuous and reciprocal interactions between economic and institutional agents (formal and informal) at the micro-level. Co-evolutionary studies of divergent economic activities in the Indian city of Delhi have revealed that radical changes in the institutional environment that did not enable retention of the existing ‘lock-in’ and informal institutional arrangements such as social ties and networks led to institutional drift and path exhaustion for the industrial sector. Meanwhile, in the service sector, the response of economic entrepreneurs to changes in the institutional environment has led to technological lock-in and the emergence of supporting informal institutional arrangements. Formal institutional arrangements have undergone institutional layering that has led to economic path creation for the service sector. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 763-777 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2247478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2247478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:763-777 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2234433_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Luigi Maria Solivetti Author-X-Name-First: Luigi Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Solivetti Title: Ecology and space in the COVID-19 epidemic diffusion: a multifactorial analysis of Italy’s provinces Abstract: This study aimed to identify the ecological and spatial correlates of the COVID-19 secondary transmission mechanisms. The dataset comprised cross-province daily COVID-19 cases recorded in Italy from 25 February to 26 May 2020. Several physical and socio-economic variables and a broad set of spatial matrices were employed to explain epidemic spreading. First, the serial transmission interval was identified through autoregressive models. Second, the impact of the ecological and spatial variables on the epidemic’s secondary transmission was analysed by means of ordinary least squares and spatial regression models. The study found that, against widespread belief, the epidemic diffusion was higher in the more affluent and developed territorial units. As for the spatial component, a secondary transmission spatial spillover emerged. Contiguity and distance but also mobility fluxes proved to be significant in this transmission. This study’s contribution is methodological and empirical. As for methodology, it shows that spatial models can be used not only to identify epidemic localisation but also to predict epidemic transmission, provided the problem of the multidirectional nature of spatial dependence is adequately dealt with. Moreover, this study shows that no satisfactory understanding of the epidemic would be achieved without considering both ecological and spatial determinants. As for the empirical aspect, it was found that the main contribution to epidemic spreading came from the anthropologic context rather than the physical one. In particular, direct and indirect indicators of mobility, transport and social interaction emerged as crucial for the epidemic transmission. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 679-702 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2234433 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2234433 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:679-702 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2168211_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Teresa Graziano Author-X-Name-First: Teresa Author-X-Name-Last: Graziano Author-Name: Luca Ruggiero Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggiero Title: From periphery to growth pole (and back again?): late industrialism, smart strategies and tourism in south-eastern Sicily Abstract: This article provides new insights into the relationship between industrialization and new forms of post-industrial development. Adopting a historical sensibility, it frames the contemporary development of the local economy of the city of Siracusa, in south-east Sicily, in an evolutionary historical perspective. The article focuses on the recent process of touristification of the city and surrounding area, analysing this process in connection with the industrialization and growth-pole strategy implemented in south-east Sicily in the post-war period. Emphasis is placed on the narratives that have been mobilized to justify different forms of development in the area, focusing in particular on the recurrent representation of the area as a periphery. Pointing out the selective use of visions of the past in post-industrial development strategies, the authors highlight how an uncomfortable industrial past has been removed from the main narratives to envision the city of Siracusa as moving towards a new phase of capitalist development. Finally, the article provides novel insights into the critical literature on tourism, showing that tourism, narrated and promoted as a sustainable and eco-compatible alternative to industrialization in Siracusa, can in fact produce highly negative impacts on the local environment and communities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 89-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2168211 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2168211 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:89-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2229421_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Elena Bárcena-Martín Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Bárcena-Martín Author-Name: Elías Melchor-Ferrer Author-X-Name-First: Elías Author-X-Name-Last: Melchor-Ferrer Author-Name: Salvador Pérez-Moreno Author-X-Name-First: Salvador Author-X-Name-Last: Pérez-Moreno Title: Assessing regional convergence of the size of middle classes in Euro-Mediterranean countries Abstract: Historically, Euro-Mediterranean European countries have presented high levels of intra- and interregional socio-economic inequalities and are regular recipients of financial support under European Union Cohesion Policy. This paper provides evidence of regional convergence in the size of lower- and upper-middle-income classes across regions of France, Greece, Italy and Spain for the period 2004–17. Our results also reveal that changes in class size in neighbouring regions are associated with changes in the same direction in the lower- and upper-middle classes of the region of interest. As regards growth of class size in neighbouring regions, the convergence process is offset in both middle-income groups, but only partially for the upper-middle class. Furthermore, the economic cycle affects the process of regional convergence in the size of the middle class, although the effects are non-homogeneous for both middle-class groups. While increases or decreases in gross domestic product (GDP) do not seem to be closely related to upper-middle-class size, relatively persistent decreases rather than increases in GDP over time tend to be more linked to lower-middle-class size. These findings point to significant differences in the convergence dynamics between lower- and upper-middle classes, with the former being more sensitive to both neighbouring regions and the business cycle. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 659-675 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2229421 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2229421 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:659-675 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2158751_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Juliette Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Juliette Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Author-Name: Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues Author-X-Name-First: Vasco Author-X-Name-Last: Sanchez Rodrigues Author-Name: Ciaran Mac an Bhaird Author-X-Name-First: Ciaran Mac an Author-X-Name-Last: Bhaird Author-Name: Maryam Lotfi Author-X-Name-First: Maryam Author-X-Name-Last: Lotfi Author-Name: Maneesh Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Maneesh Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Author-Name: Donagh Horgan Author-X-Name-First: Donagh Author-X-Name-Last: Horgan Author-Name: Sarah Dodd Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Dodd Author-Name: Mike Danson Author-X-Name-First: Mike Author-X-Name-Last: Danson Title: On the beer wagon: the past, present and future of Celtic craft brewing and its policies Abstract: This paper examines the potential of the craft beer sector as a regional development lever. Focusing on three culturally linked but politically distinct small nations, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, it takes a historical journey from the inception of this sector to the present day. Discussion focuses on highlighting the complex interactions between brewing, society, policy and economy. We review current policy and sectoral realities for our Celtic context and propose a grounded and holistic vision of regional craft-brewing policies, particularly around more circular and zero-waste ecosystems. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 329-346 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2158751 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2158751 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:329-346 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2157324_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Samuel Wirth Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Author-X-Name-Last: Wirth Author-Name: Pascal Tschumi Author-X-Name-First: Pascal Author-X-Name-Last: Tschumi Author-Name: Heike Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Heike Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Author-Name: Monika Bandi Tanner Author-X-Name-First: Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Bandi Tanner Title: Change agency in social innovation: an analysis of activities in social innovation processes Abstract: We examine the role of change agency in social innovations. Agency in social innovations can create new resources and capacities for transformative change in a region. To date, there is a lack of empirical studies investigating how agency manifests itself in social innovations. In particular, research has not yet investigated the detailed activities of social innovation actors throughout the phases of social innovation processes. In this paper we apply the concept of trinity of change agency to investigate the activities of social innovation actors. Using innovation biographies and data from 61 interviews for 11 case studies of social innovation in a peripheral mountain region in Switzerland, we analyse the social innovation process from an actor-oriented perspective. Our findings show that the various types of change agency are highly present in social innovations. The significance of change agency alters throughout the innovation process. Our analysis shows that all kinds of actors performed change agency during the social innovation process. Interestingly, same actors performed different types of change agency during the social innovation process. The findings suggest that change agency is as a significant element in social innovations and that we need to consider it as a transformative element of social innovation processes. When policymakers take change agency into account in creating an environment in which social innovations can flourish, there is a great chance that social innovations can contribute to changing regional development paths and perhaps even to regional transformation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 33-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2157324 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2157324 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:33-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2203557_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Correction Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 474-474 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2203557 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2203557 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:474-474 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2276216_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Carolin Ioramashvili Author-X-Name-First: Carolin Author-X-Name-Last: Ioramashvili Title: It’s not me, it’s you: internal migration and local wages in Great Britain Abstract: Differences in regional incomes are large and persistent in many countries. On the one hand, internal migration from low- to high-income regions might eradicate these differences over time. On the other hand, internal migration might exacerbate disparities, as receiving regions benefit from incoming skills and agglomeration economies. This paper estimates the effect of internal in- and out-migration on the earnings of employees who do not move, using a panel of employee records from Great Britain between 2004 and 2018. Employees are tracked and identified as internal migrants if they start working in a new travel-to-work area (TTWA), representing functional labour market areas. The share of in- and out-migrants is significantly correlated with earnings and earnings growth of non-migrants in a TTWA. The results show that in-migrants have an immediate negative effect on local earnings of non-migrants. After three years, in-migration is positively correlated with earnings growth. These effects are exclusively driven by urban areas. Out-migrants have no significant effects. The results provide some evidence that labour mobility can be used as a tool to encourage local growth, albeit with significant adjustment costs. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 876-888 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2276216 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2276216 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:876-888 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2244572_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Nikolaus Steinböck Author-X-Name-First: Nikolaus Author-X-Name-Last: Steinböck Author-Name: Michaela Trippl Author-X-Name-First: Michaela Author-X-Name-Last: Trippl Title: The thorny road towards green path development: the case of bioplastics in Lower Austria Abstract: This article contributes to a better understanding of how heterogeneous innovation system actors shape green industrial path development. Previous research has identified various forces of stability that reside within place-specific and non-local innovation system structures and advanced our understanding of the role of change agency in rearranging these structures to facilitate green transitions. Failures to reconfigure innovation systems have received limited attention so far. Drawing on recent insights into the role of maintenance agency, we cast light on how powerful actors undertake strategic interventions to prevent rearrangements of innovation systems from happening. Our empirical analysis of the emerging bioplastics path in the region of Lower Austria reveals how resistive incumbents from the fossil-based plastics industry, academia and support organisations preserve historically grown system configurations that favour the old unsustainable industry and create barriers to the consolidation of the bioplastics path. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 735-749 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2244572 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2244572 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:735-749 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2183141_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Truong Cong Bac Author-X-Name-First: Truong Cong Author-X-Name-Last: Bac Title: The nexus between spatial structure and labour income: evidence from Vietnam Abstract: Studies on spatial structure features and their influence are increasingly receiving great attention from scholars and policymakers as they play an essential role in any geographical area’s planning and economic development. Therefore, this study analyses the specific impact of spatial structure on labour income in a typical case in Vietnam. Using instrumental variables combined with two-stage least squares regression analysis (TSLS), the results from the study show the specific effects of spatial structure on labour income. Urbanization externalities are reflected in the size of the urban population, which positively impacts the labour income in the region. In contrast, the population dispersion in the decentralized model brings negative impacts. Besides, when the spatial structure of localities tends to be highly polycentric, it will have a negative impact on labour income; however, this effect is dominated by the size of the urban population. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 294-311 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2183141 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2183141 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:294-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2182231_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Goiuri Alberdi Author-X-Name-First: Goiuri Author-X-Name-Last: Alberdi Author-Name: Edurne Magro Author-X-Name-First: Edurne Author-X-Name-Last: Magro Author-Name: Mari Jose Aranguren Author-X-Name-First: Mari Jose Author-X-Name-Last: Aranguren Author-Name: Mirene Begiristain-Zubillaga Author-X-Name-First: Mirene Author-X-Name-Last: Begiristain-Zubillaga Title: A seed towards a sustainable food system in healthcare institutions: the case of the Basque Country Abstract: Public procurement of food is seen as a critical tool for a paradigm shift and for facilitating the development of specific policy objectives to build sustainable food environments. Furthermore, the harnessing of the purchasing power of hospitals, prioritizing local and sustainable food, offers the potential to transform food production systems into more resilient production models and bring them in line with current European sustainability strategies. This paper analyses the current situation of sustainable food procurement strategies in Osakidetza, the Basque Health System, and identifies the challenges and action plans needed to develop a sustainable food strategy. Sustainable food procurement is still incipient in Osakidetza. This roadmap proposal is a basic but necessary contribution as a starting point. Likewise, we find contributions from agroecology that are interesting for the construction of sustainable food environments in health systems. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 273-293 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2182231 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2182231 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:273-293 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2191684_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Miguel González-Leonardo Author-X-Name-First: Miguel Author-X-Name-Last: González-Leonardo Author-Name: Francisco Rowe Author-X-Name-First: Francisco Author-X-Name-Last: Rowe Author-Name: Arturo Vegas-Sánchez Author-X-Name-First: Arturo Author-X-Name-Last: Vegas-Sánchez Title: A ‘donut effect’? Assessing housing transactions during COVID-19 across the Spanish rural–urban hierarchy Abstract: We assess if a 'donut effect' has occurred in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show a synchronized 30% drop in housing purchases during the national lockdown in 2020, followed by a significant increase from 2021 across the rural-urban continuum, including core cities, suburbs, towns and rural areas, exceeding pre-pandemic levels. We thus found no evidence of a ‘donut effect’ in Spain. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 471-473 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2191684 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2191684 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:471-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2180424_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Vanessa Hellwig Author-X-Name-First: Vanessa Author-X-Name-Last: Hellwig Title: Shoulders and shadows of giants: intra-regional distribution of the digital industry in Germany Abstract: This paper investigates digital firm birth activity in municipalities in the urban hinterland of core cities in Germany. It conducts panel fixed-effect regressions for monocentric and polycentric urban labour market regions covering the years 1995–2017. The digital industry’s regional distribution is shaped significantly by the closest core cities: municipalities in monocentric urban regions (MURs) profit from urban population growth and universities’ general knowledge. Municipalities in polycentric urban regions (PURs), however, are affected by industry-specific externalities, that is, an above-average growth in the share of firm birth of their closest urban cores. Overall, agglomeration externalities experience spatial decay relative to the core size with all regions benefiting from their own industry-enhancing urbanization externalities as captured by population growth and universities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 234-252 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2180424 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2180424 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:234-252 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2257297_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Maria Giovanna Brandano Author-X-Name-First: Maria Giovanna Author-X-Name-Last: Brandano Author-Name: Giulia Urso Author-X-Name-First: Giulia Author-X-Name-Last: Urso Title: Italian cultural and creative industries following the Great Recession: an exploration of the local determinants of growth Abstract: The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) have variously been seen as a stimulus for urban and regional development. They were also one of the few sectors in the UK and European Union countries to weather the storm of the 2008 Great Recession. Starting from the curiosity aroused by these premises, and given the paucity of studies on Italian CCIs, we analyse the growth trend of the sector following the economic shock of the Great Recession to ascertain whether this trend also held for Italy. We use data from the Aida-Bureau van Dijk database on more than 181,000 enterprises for the period 2010–18. Information on the number of employees from the cultural and creative enterprises is collected for 18 NACE Rev. 2 sectors, with the aim of disentangling the contribution of each subsector to the growth of the industry. While information is available at the firm level, we use NUTS-3-level information. Using a system generalised method of moments (GMM-SYS) approach, and controlling for some socio-economic characteristics, we examine the determinants of the growth of CCIs in the post-shock period, ultimately contributing to the underexplored debate on the resilience of the sector in Italy and accounting for its macro-regional and peripherality effects. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 778-797 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2257297 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2257297 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:778-797 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2160655_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Laura Cavalli Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Cavalli Author-Name: Mia Alibegovic Author-X-Name-First: Mia Author-X-Name-Last: Alibegovic Author-Name: Edward Cruickshank Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Cruickshank Author-Name: Luca Farnia Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Farnia Author-Name: Ilenia G. Romani Author-X-Name-First: Ilenia G. Author-X-Name-Last: Romani Title: The impact of EU Structural Funds on the national sustainable development strategy: a methodological application Abstract: Between 2019 and 2021, the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation (FEEM) developed and applied a sustainability assessment model of the investments within the regional operational programmes (ROPs), with specific reference to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That same methodology is used here for the assessment of the sustainability of the ROPs co-financed by the European Union with specific reference to Italy’s National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS). In particular, the analysis is done by looking at the contribution of the 182 intervention fields to the NSDS’ strategic goals. Throughout the paper the importance of defining implementation strategies of the NSDS’ National strategic goals through the integration of the indicators, goals and choices of the national strategy into local or regional development plans is emphasized. Finally, the work suggests this methodology as a reference point to ensure careful monitoring of the sustainability of the investments of various European Union policies, in consideration of the importance that the strategy assumes for both Italy and the Italian regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 52-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2160655 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2160655 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:52-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2174042_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Kristína Hrehová Author-X-Name-First: Kristína Author-X-Name-Last: Hrehová Author-Name: Erika Sandow Author-X-Name-First: Erika Author-X-Name-Last: Sandow Author-Name: Urban Lindgren Author-X-Name-First: Urban Author-X-Name-Last: Lindgren Title: Firm relocations, commuting and relationship stability Abstract: In this paper we study the impact of firm relocations on commuting distance and the probability of married couples and cohabiting couples with children separating. We use Swedish register data for the period 2010–16 and select employees of relocating firms with one workplace and more than 10 employees. Focusing on this sample allows us to use plausibly exogenous variation in the commuting distance arising from the relocation. We extend the literature on the effect of commuting on relationship stability by reducing the possibility for unobserved time-variant factors to bias our estimates. While previous literature has focused on the difference between short- and long-distance commuting, we focus on changes in the commuting distance that are externally induced by firm management. We find a small but statistically significant negative effect of increased firm relocation distance on family stability. A 10 km change in commuting distance leads to a 0.09 percentage point higher probability of separation if the commuter remains with the firm for the next five years. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 194-216 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2174042 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2174042 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:194-216 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2178324_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Peter Musinguzi Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Musinguzi Author-Name: Derek Baker Author-X-Name-First: Derek Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Author-Name: Nicolette Larder Author-X-Name-First: Nicolette Author-X-Name-Last: Larder Author-Name: Renato A. Villano Author-X-Name-First: Renato A. Author-X-Name-Last: Villano Title: The measurement of social impacts in rural social enterprises: a systematic literature review and future research implications Abstract: Rural social enterprises (RSEs) represent an emerging actor in rural and local socio-economic development. The study of RSEs recognizes the importance of place-based actions for development. Social impacts of RSEs have been touted, particularly in filling roles in the rural context that are underperformed by governments and private actors. However, RSEs’ social impact measurement remains emerging. This review confirms that measurement of RSEs’ social impact, and its attribution to RSEs’ interventions, remain underdeveloped and lacking in both rigour and consistency. Solutions are proposed that contribute to improved methodological approaches applicable to rural regions and appropriate for related interventions confronting spatial disparities in rural development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 139-166 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2178324 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2178324 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:139-166 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2168565_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Timothy Pape Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Pape Title: Utilizing relational values to investigate a federally administered soil conservation programme in the US Northwest Abstract: Federal conservation programmes compensate property owners and farmers for sustained land-use practices which generate ecosystem services, yet enrolling participants can be a challenge. This paper studies that challenge in order to understand what values drive enrolment patterns in the Columbia River basin in the US Northwest, a region designated as a Critical Conservation Area by the US Department of Agriculture. Utilizing a relational values framework, the dynamics of the federally administered Conservation Reserve Program are explored. Findings are revealed through qualitative coding and analysis of semi-structured interviews and visual artefacts from programme participants, government employees and university-affiliated extension knowledge holders. This study concludes that five key relational values inform enrolment in this region beyond monetary reasons: stewardship, care, kinship, responsibility and identity. This paper posits that integrating information regarding relational values into federally administered conservation programmes may lead to more resilient and sustainable social–ecological systems. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 106-118 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2168565 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2168565 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:106-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2186802_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Zofia Bednarowska-Michaiel Author-X-Name-First: Zofia Author-X-Name-Last: Bednarowska-Michaiel Title: Ethnic inequalities in cycling to work in London: mobility injustice and regional approach Abstract: This paper investigates ethnic inequity in cycling to work in London, as ethnic minorities in London cycle to work less frequently than white Londoners. The study adopts three methods: spatial statistics, linear regression and spatial econometrics based on recent UK census and official statistical data (2011–17) of 33 London regions. Spatial analysis shows that cycling networks and bike schemes are concentrated around Inner London. Regions with less cycling infrastructure tend to have a greater proportion of residents of ethnic minorities. The paper highlights the spatial dependence between ethnic inequalities and cycling to work at a regional level in London. There is also evidence of spatial spillovers between neighbouring regions. The paper highlights the need to shift the policy focus from the provision of cycling infrastructure to mobility justice. This means recognizing the needs of distinct groups of cyclists coming from various ethnic minorities. Overall, this paper expands the transportation policies approach by linking it with the concepts of mobilities and regional inequalities. This study of London demonstrates the mechanisms responsible for regional ethnic inequalities in cycling to work that could be relevant in other large urban agglomerations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 475-488 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2186802 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2186802 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:475-488 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2189455_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Mario Biggeri Author-X-Name-First: Mario Author-X-Name-Last: Biggeri Author-Name: Luca Bortolotti Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Bortolotti Author-Name: Andrea Ferrannini Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrannini Author-Name: Donatella Saccone Author-X-Name-First: Donatella Author-X-Name-Last: Saccone Title: China’s subnational policies and the performance of provinces towards meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Abstract: China has recorded impressive economic achievements driving the structural transformation of its society. However, this transformation is marked by rising inequality, environmental pollution and stark provincial disparities. In 2015, the launching of the Agenda 2030 provided a common ground at the international level conceptualizing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper analyses the provincial performances towards the Agenda 2030 in the period 2015–19 by introducing the integrated sustainable development index cluster; convergence and econometric analyses are then used to explore synergies and trade-offs among SDGs. The empirical results capture the dynamics of sustainable development of China’s provinces and provide a clearer understanding of how policies may influence different the SDGs’ achievements, exploring the relationship between environmental versus different aspects of development. These results are used to draw policy recommendations that highlight the importance of identifying the appropriate mix of strategies to promote integrated sustainable development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 439-460 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2189455 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2189455 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:439-460 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2167608_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Vincenzo Alfano Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Alfano Author-Name: Ilaria Mariotti Author-X-Name-First: Ilaria Author-X-Name-Last: Mariotti Author-Name: Mita Marra Author-X-Name-First: Mita Author-X-Name-Last: Marra Author-Name: Gaetano Vecchione Author-X-Name-First: Gaetano Author-X-Name-Last: Vecchione Title: I want to break free: the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on work–life balance satisfaction Abstract: The revolution in the organization of work, induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has had, and will have, some long-lasting consequences on how jobs will be performed, affecting adult life well-being. What we know so far about the determinant of satisfaction for work–life balance may not be valid anymore considering this sudden revolution in work organization. This paper presents an empirical analysis based on a cross-sectional survey of 803 workers in October 2020. Results suggest that the profile that benefits the most from the revolution in work organization is represented by a male, married, public sector worker working remotely and not living in the southern part of Italy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 70-88 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2167608 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2167608 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:70-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2219509_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Regional Studies, Regional Science Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 603-603 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2219509 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2219509 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:603-603 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2205501_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Dario D’Ingiullo Author-X-Name-First: Dario Author-X-Name-Last: D’Ingiullo Author-Name: Iacopo Odoardi Author-X-Name-First: Iacopo Author-X-Name-Last: Odoardi Author-Name: Davide Quaglione Author-X-Name-First: Davide Author-X-Name-Last: Quaglione Title: Stay or emigrate? How social capital influences selective migration in Italy Abstract: Internal migration in Italy has been characterised by deep changes in its composition, because of the growing share of high-skilled migrants (the emigration of which contributes to widening the internal brain drain) and the decreasing proportion of low-skilled migrants. Furthermore, recent interest in the literature in the role played by noneconomic elements in affecting migration decisions has highlighted the importance of a nonpecuniary factor, namely social capital (SC). For these reasons, this paper empirically investigates the role played by SC in interprovincial selective migration, considering migrants according to two education levels using data on 103 Italian provinces (2004–2012). The main findings reveal that provincial SC mainly contributes to reducing the migration flows of low-skilled individuals, albeit while also deterring the emigration of high-skilled individuals. Control variables confirm that better income conditions represent an important determinant of high-skilled migrants most likely because they seek to earn more, while better socioeconomic conditions such as labour market efficiency mostly influence those with a lower level of education. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 529-548 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2205501 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2205501 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:529-548 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2204913_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Valentina Cattivelli Author-X-Name-First: Valentina Author-X-Name-Last: Cattivelli Author-Name: Guido Ferilli Author-X-Name-First: Guido Author-X-Name-Last: Ferilli Title: The dynamics of trade firms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Via Padova, Milan Abstract: This paper investigates trade firms’ dynamics in the Via Padova neighbourhood at the end of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed local economies and it has resulted in economic downturns, income inequalities and increased unemployment. While the current literature analyses widely its impacts on international trade, little attention has been given to the resilience of trade firms at the urban level. The containment measures to limit the pandemic have caused temporary closings of non-essential goods firms, while forcing other firms offering essential goods to stay open, albeit the many difficulties encountered. Since the Via Padova neighbourhood has one of the highest densities of trade firms in Milan, this makes it an interesting study area to test the effects associated with the containment measures. Exploring the data about trade firms’ survival rates related to the period 2019–20 demonstrates a certain resilience of local firms. The number of firms closing down decreases in 2020, while the variation in the active ones tends to become insignificant compared with the previous year. The negative effects on non-essential goods firms persist during the first wave of the pandemic, whereas during the second wave essential goods firms are especially affected. These dynamics of resilience towards hostile economic and social conditions caused by the pandemic are a useful clue for reconsidering and developing new recovery policies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 549-568 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2204913 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2204913 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:549-568 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2200529_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Christine Camacho Author-X-Name-First: Christine Author-X-Name-Last: Camacho Author-Name: Roger T. Webb Author-X-Name-First: Roger T. Author-X-Name-Last: Webb Author-Name: Peter Bower Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Bower Author-Name: Luke Munford Author-X-Name-First: Luke Author-X-Name-Last: Munford Title: Levelling up or widening the gap? An analysis of community renewal fund allocation in English regions using an economic resilience index Abstract: This paper assesses the relationship between economic resilience in English regions and the allocation of the UK government’s Community Renewal Fund (CRF). The CRF is part of the government’s ‘Levelling Up’ agenda to address place-based inequalities. Economic resilience is measured using a composite index comprising productivity, skills, unemployment, population density and household income. Data were obtained for the five indicators at local authority (LA) level in England. Regional resilience scores were produced by calculating the weighted mean score of the constituent LAs. Regional resilience values were used to generate an ‘expected share’ funding allocation, which was compared with the actual allocation using differences and correlation. Regional resilience scores ranged from 28.5 (North East) to 66.6 (London). A total of £125.56 million was allocated in the first round of the CRF. All regions in the North received less than their expected share allocation of the CRF, with the least resilient region in England (North East) receiving £13.4 million less. The South West received £9.9 million more than their expected share. All regions in the North of England received less than their expected share allocation of the CRF. There was no significant correlation between resilience values and CRF allocations (r = −0.16, p = 0.68). The current method for CRF allocation may therefore widen existing inequalities rather than ‘level up’. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 496-505 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2200529 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2200529 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:496-505 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2199054_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Luca Pennacchio Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Pennacchio Title: Reshoring and firm productivity Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of reshoring, defined as the relocation of previously offshored production activities back to the home country or to a neighbouring country, on the productivity of manufacturing firms. It uses data from the European Reshoring Monitor on European firms in the period 2014–18. Reshoring increased total factor productivity of small and medium-sized firms, but did not affect productivity of large firms. The positive effect was stronger for firms that had offshored production to some Asian countries. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 489-495 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2199054 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2199054 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:489-495 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2219723_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Jan Píša Author-X-Name-First: Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Píša Title: How individuals become agents of change in old industrial regions Abstract: As a result of the decline of key economic sectors, old industrial towns face several development challenges, reinforcing the perception of these places as peripheral. However, even in the context of old industrial towns in the Ústí nad Labem Region in post-socialist Czechia, local people are addressing locally specific issues to facilitate a positive change. These actors (known as ‘agents of change’) mobilise diverse resources through their actions. This study shows that to build an individual capacity to act, inspiration and knowledge transfer from diverse professional and geographical structures are even more important than formal education. To finance their initiatives, agents use informal investments provided by their friends and family, but later they exploit formal subsidies from the public sector. In terms of social capital, a high-quality collaboration between locals is a crucial factor for change, yet local and regional governments often fail as coordinators and leaders of change agency. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 592-602 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2219723 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2219723 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:592-602 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2166868_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Corrado Andini Author-X-Name-First: Corrado Author-X-Name-Last: Andini Author-Name: Monica Andini Author-X-Name-First: Monica Author-X-Name-Last: Andini Title: Mussolini meets Marshall in the city Abstract: We estimate the link between population density and labour productivity at the city level. An exogenous change in the agglomeration of some cities that occurred in Italy during the fascist dictatorship allows us to instrument the agglomeration proxy. We find evidence of a causal impact of density on productivity for the subpopulation of cities affected by the instrument. The estimated elasticity in our preferred specification is 0.252. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 184-193 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2166868 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2166868 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:184-193 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2186805_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Thanh Ngo Author-X-Name-First: Thanh Author-X-Name-Last: Ngo Author-Name: Graham Squires Author-X-Name-First: Graham Author-X-Name-Last: Squires Author-Name: Michael McCord Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: McCord Author-Name: Daniel Lo Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Lo Title: House prices, airport location proximity, air traffic volume and the COVID-19 effect Abstract: Although house prices and airports are influenced by distinct factors that shape their evolutions, they are also intrinsically connected through the natural and built environment. Standard theory suggests that air-traffic noise and proximity to key economic hubs such as airports are of prime importance to house prices and the housing market. This study contributes to understanding the link between the housing market, airport location proximity and air traffic. The research investigates this association across four key urban areas within New Zealand proximal to an international airport: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. Applying a generalized least squares (GLS) regression approach, the analysis reveals that house prices, air-traffic activity and proximity to airports within New Zealand demonstrate a statistically significant effect, and that air traffic volume has a positive effect on house prices. Moreover, the findings reveal a ‘U’-shape relationship between distance to the airport and house prices, suggesting that airport noise and pollution adversely affect house prices, with this effect diminishing with distance, indicating that economic influences and employment may also serve as a positive externality. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 418-438 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2186805 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2186805 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:418-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2157323_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Jana M. Kleibert Author-X-Name-First: Jana M. Author-X-Name-Last: Kleibert Author-Name: Marc P. Schulze Author-X-Name-First: Marc P. Author-X-Name-Last: Schulze Author-Name: Tim Rottleb Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: Rottleb Author-Name: Alice Bobée Author-X-Name-First: Alice Author-X-Name-Last: Bobée Title: (Trans)regional embeddedness and the resilience of offshore campuses Abstract: Regional embeddedness plays an important role for universities. We show that for transnational subsidiaries of universities, or offshore campuses, which are necessarily transregionally embedded through their relations to their home university campus and its networks, the level of regional embeddedness is also of critical importance. We define four dimensions of regional and transregional embeddedness: partnerships, government funding, faculty and staff, and student recruitment. Based on qualitative interviews conducted before and at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and a global survey of offshore campus managers during the pandemic, we show how campuses with strong regional embeddedness seem to have been more resilient in the face of the COVID-19 crisis than those campuses which are less strongly regionally embedded. Nonetheless, regional embeddedness of institutions is no panacea and its risks and trade-offs with transregional embeddedness should be carefully weighed by higher education managers. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 23-32 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2157323 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2157323 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:23-32 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2225569_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Martina Aronica Author-X-Name-First: Martina Author-X-Name-Last: Aronica Author-Name: Maria Francesca Cracolici Author-X-Name-First: Maria Francesca Author-X-Name-Last: Cracolici Author-Name: Debora Insolda Author-X-Name-First: Debora Author-X-Name-Last: Insolda Author-Name: Davide Piacentino Author-X-Name-First: Davide Author-X-Name-Last: Piacentino Author-Name: Salvatore Tosi Author-X-Name-First: Salvatore Author-X-Name-Last: Tosi Title: A long-term vision for rural areas: a case study of Sicilian farms Abstract: In line with internationally defined goals of sustainable development, European agricultural policies today have a far-sighted vision for rural areas. Using a case study approach, this paper explores how receptive rural farms in Sicily are to a long-term vision of development. The study focuses on three key factors of a long-term vision, that is, digitalisation, innovation and sustainability, to examine not only whether farms have invested in these areas but also how they perceive their role in the post-pandemic era. Empirical results provide insights into the concentration of farms in the central inland areas of Sicily without any real long-term vision of development. Nevertheless, the analysis also shows that some of them do have a positive attitude to change. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 640-658 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2225569 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2225569 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:640-658 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2171313_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Muhammad Mohsin Hakeem Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad Mohsin Author-X-Name-Last: Hakeem Author-Name: Hoe Chin Goi Author-X-Name-First: Hoe Chin Author-X-Name-Last: Goi Author-Name: Frendy Author-X-Name-First: Author-X-Name-Last: Frendy Author-Name: Hiroshi Ito Author-X-Name-First: Hiroshi Author-X-Name-Last: Ito Title: Regional sustainable development using a Quadruple Helix approach in Japan Abstract: This study analyses the knowledge-sharing process and its outcomes among stakeholders (i.e., academia, industry, government and civil society) in the context of a regional sustainability-oriented project held in Ena City, central Japan, by using the Quadruple Helix (QH) framework. We collected data through interviews with the stakeholders and related documents and employed qualitative content analysis to analyse the data. Our findings imply that there is a gap between the theoretical understanding and practical application of sustainability practices at the initial stage of interaction. However, the project facilitated inter-exchanges of knowledge among stakeholders in the respective helices that could address this gap. Our research suggested the roles of stakeholders in a sustainability-driven collaboration as bridging academics, resource-providing industry, observant government and boundary-spanning civil society which represent the balanced QH model. The current study contributes to the existing literature three-fold. First, few existing studies have employed the QH model in the context of sustainability. Second, most previous studies on the QH model have focused on macro-perspectives. Third, the study clarifies the roles of the stakeholders, which extends the understanding of the QH model. This study suggests a regional sustainability policy that encourages more bottom-up initiatives, in line with the balanced helix model. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 119-138 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2171313 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2171313 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:119-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2178323_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: David G. Williams Author-X-Name-First: David G. Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Title: Enabling the practices in an urban regeneration system of provision Abstract: Urban regeneration of previously developed, or brownfield, land requires a host of competing factors to ‘fall into place’ at the same time. This includes private finance to develop and deliver a vision for how an area will develop and integrate with the existing urban fabric. Governmental support is also essential to enable the development to take place. This paper focuses on the urban regeneration of Gloucester Quays by Peel Holdings, in the south-west of the UK, and uses a combined practice theory and systems of provision approach created by Williams et al. in 2019 to explore the factors that enabled the regeneration to occur. The paper explores each level of the governance structure and the practices that influence planning and development. It demonstrates that many different factors need to fall into place to enable regeneration to take place, and the system of provision model enables the identification of these factors. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 167-183 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2178323 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2178323 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:167-183 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2234438_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Yankai Wang Author-X-Name-First: Yankai Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Binbin Sun Author-X-Name-First: Binbin Author-X-Name-Last: Sun Author-Name: Haochen Shi Author-X-Name-First: Haochen Author-X-Name-Last: Shi Title: Mapping the e-governance efficiency of Chinese cities Abstract: E-governance is regarded as a critical indicator of smart cities, but the measurement of e-governance efficiency requires further consideration. Pursuing this research strand, the paper proposes an e-governance efficiency index (EEI) that is then applied to Chinese cities. The results show that e-governance efficiency in Chinese cities is spatially uneven. Overall, the newly proposed index can be used in supporting analyses and assessments of smart governance. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 676-678 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2234438 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2234438 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:676-678 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2222813_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Margherita Bellanca Author-X-Name-First: Margherita Author-X-Name-Last: Bellanca Author-Name: Vieri Calogero Author-X-Name-First: Vieri Author-X-Name-Last: Calogero Title: A multilevel threshold public good perspective on place branding: evidence from Italy Abstract: This paper proposes a new interpretation of place brand as a multilevel threshold public good (MTPG) produced by the interaction of narratives from different geographical levels. Using an original dataset of Google trends and tweets from Italian provinces and regions, we test the hypothesis that place branding has a multilevel structure. We further test the MTPG framework applied to place branding, showing that place branding is influenced by different geographical levels which can trigger a spillover in terms of attractiveness if they contribute to crossing a threshold point. The results confirm the presence of a provision point in place branding, showing that the proposed MTPG framework fits the phenomenon. This article contributes to the literature on place branding and brands by providing a new lens through which to interpret the phenomenon, which may be useful for a better understanding and measuring of the interaction of branding strategies operating at different spatial scales. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 625-639 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2222813 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2222813 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:625-639 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2183892_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Martin Rosenfeld Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenfeld Author-Name: Bastian Heider Author-X-Name-First: Bastian Author-X-Name-Last: Heider Title: The legacy of socialist central planning policy for the long-term development of cities: insights from case studies in East Germany Abstract: This paper analyses different categories of legacy from socialist central planning policies (SCPP) for urban development. How have city-specific measures by SCPP affected local economic systems, and have there been long-term consequences for cities even after their return to a market economy? Drawing from case studies of four East German cities, we identify several types of socialist policy measures that determine the local economic performance up to now. The impact of some measures was primarily displayed via ‘soft’ factors such as local image and identity and the attitudes of residents, local decision-makers. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 312-328 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2183892 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2183892 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:312-328 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2185536_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Silke Zöllner Author-X-Name-First: Silke Author-X-Name-Last: Zöllner Author-Name: Mathias Heidinger Author-X-Name-First: Mathias Author-X-Name-Last: Heidinger Author-Name: Sebastian Sager Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Sager Author-Name: Stefan Lüthi Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Lüthi Author-Name: Alain Thierstein Author-X-Name-First: Alain Author-X-Name-Last: Thierstein Title: Advanced producer services in Germany: a relational perspective on spatial core–periphery structures, 2009–19 Abstract: This paper challenges the traditional perspective of a territorial core–periphery pattern as an organizing principle of space by introducing a relational perspective through an empirical approach. We study spatial processes of knowledge creation among advanced producer services in Germany between 2009 and 2019. We use a unique longitudinal dataset to analyse if German regions have become more integrated into the intra-firm location networks nationally and globally, and how this translates into the processes of centralization and peripheralization. The current conceptualization of core–periphery in Germany is too static and does not reflect the economic development of the regions. We find that there is no trend of urban areas becoming more integrated and peripheral areas less integrated into these networks. Instead, our research finds a discrepancy between the federal territorial classification and the functional orientation of German regions. Regions classified as peripheral have not generally decreased in connectivity to other regions. In contrast, some have increased their connectivity and have become more central in relational terms. Overall, we identified peripheralization and centralization as a relational process with dynamic, overlapping and trans-scalar networks. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 347-368 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2185536 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2185536 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:347-368 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2156299_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Xiaohong Chen Author-X-Name-First: Xiaohong Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Xiang Liu Author-X-Name-First: Xiang Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Yingjie Guo Author-X-Name-First: Yingjie Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Title: Geovisualizing evolving population and built-up area in China, 2010–20 Abstract: China's population and development land have changed dramatically over the last decade. Yet, our understanding of the spatial distribution patterns of the population and built-up areas remains limited. To fill this gap, we employ China's Population Census and GlobeLand30 remote sensing data from 2010 to 2020 at the county level to geovisualize the evolution of the population and built-up area. We find an increasing correlation between built-up areas and population as a result of the urbanization of rural areas, but the rapid expansion of built-up areas has not fundamentally changed concentration of China's population over the period 2010–20. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 20-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2022.2156299 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2022.2156299 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:20-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2274097_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Jim Lee Author-X-Name-First: Jim Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Title: Social vulnerability and local economic outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: This paper investigates factors associated with disparities in the exposure of US counties to the initial COVID-19 economic shock in early 2020 and their disparate economic recovery paths during the pandemic. We focus on three alternative composite measures of social vulnerability to disasters: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Vulnerability Index, the University of South Carolina’s Social Vulnerability Index and the Census Bureau’s Community Resilience Estimate. Empirical evidence under the conventional ‘global’ regression approach supports a cross-sectional correlation between the social vulnerability indices and local economic outcomes during the recovery phase, although the results are equivocal for characterising uneven local economic downturns triggered by the pandemic. Economic outcomes were dominated by other local characteristics, including population density, the share of hospitality employment, government policy measures and unobservable factors. In addition to validating the empirical relevance of the social vulnerability indices in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a geographically and temporally weighted autoregressive model offers insights into both disparate and clustering patterns across broad regions in the role of inherent sociodemographic attributes for characterising local economic dynamics over time. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 845-869 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2274097 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2274097 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:845-869 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2241544_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Luca Bettarelli Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Bettarelli Author-Name: Khatereh Yarveisi Author-X-Name-First: Khatereh Author-X-Name-Last: Yarveisi Title: Climate change policies and emissions in European regions: disentangling sources of heterogeneity Abstract: This article analyses the impact of climate change policies (CCPs) on emissions at the regional level. Using data for the entire sample of European NUTS-2 regions over a period of 26 years, we find that CCPs effectively reduce regional emissions, with the impact that materialises three years after the implementation of the policy. These effects are associated with an improvement in economic activity in the medium term, and are amplified in regions with high innovation and investment capacity, and good local institutions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 723-734 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2241544 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2241544 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:723-734 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2278577_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Ka Shing Cheung Author-X-Name-First: Ka Shing Author-X-Name-Last: Cheung Author-Name: I.-Ting Chuang Author-X-Name-First: I.-Ting Author-X-Name-Last: Chuang Author-Name: Chung Yim Yiu Author-X-Name-First: Chung Yim Author-X-Name-Last: Yiu Title: Decoding the work-from-home phenomenon: insights from location-based service data Abstract: The global pandemic has catalysed a shift in the job market, with remote work evolving from being an option to a widespread practice. This profound change goes beyond a temporary response to an extraordinary crisis; it could potentially mark the beginning of a new era in employment. In this featured graphic, we evaluate and visualise the work-from-home (WFH) trend in Auckland, the most populous metropolis in New Zealand. Applying a modified open-source machine learning algorithm on location-based service (LBS) data, we have created a visualisation to compare the individual work locations. The results reveal a significantly dispersed workplace distribution following the COVID-19 pandemic. Our visualisation, coupled with entropy analysis, provides prima facie evidence of the WFH trend. This finding holds implications for productivity and carries broader implications for the global workforce. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 873-875 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2278577 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2278577 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:873-875 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2174043_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Will Eadson Author-X-Name-First: Will Author-X-Name-Last: Eadson Author-Name: Bregje van Veelen Author-X-Name-First: Bregje Author-X-Name-Last: van Veelen Title: Green and just regional path development Abstract: Path development and path creation are prevalent concepts in efforts to understand regional economic change and innovation. A recent focus has been on ‘green’ path development: industrial change associated with environmentally beneficial products and services. This provides a moment to take stock of the path development literature to date and ask: What or who is it for? In this article we use the concept of just transition to explore ways that (green) path development concepts could be more attuned to concerns for human and environmental well-being as opposed to economic growth and innovation as goals in themselves. Building from Geographical Political Economy approaches and injecting complementary cultural economic and sociological perspectives, we generate a conception of green and just path development. This conception builds a more variegated understanding of path development as a theory of change, focusing on negotiation, struggle, inclusion and exclusion in path development processes, and leaning to a stronger orientation towards outcomes for people and places, especially implications for work and communities. This matters for understanding what the purpose of investigating path development is, and what counts as ‘success’ in evaluating path development processes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 218-233 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2174043 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2174043 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:218-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2265498_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231214T103247 git hash: d7a2cb0857 Author-Name: Serenella Caravella Author-X-Name-First: Serenella Author-X-Name-Last: Caravella Author-Name: Valeria Cirillo Author-X-Name-First: Valeria Author-X-Name-Last: Cirillo Author-Name: Francesco Crespi Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Crespi Author-Name: Dario Guarascio Author-X-Name-First: Dario Author-X-Name-Last: Guarascio Author-Name: Mirko Menghini Author-X-Name-First: Mirko Author-X-Name-Last: Menghini Title: The diffusion of digital skills across EU regions: structural drivers and polarisation dynamics Abstract: The digital transformation is an important driver of long-run productivity growth and, as such, it has the potential to promote a more inclusive and sustainable growth. However, digital capabilities, crucial to develop and govern new digital technologies, are unevenly distributed across European regions, increasing the risk of divergence and polarisation. By taking advantage of a set of original indicators capturing the level of digital skills in the regional workforce, this work analyses the factors shaping the process of digital skill accumulation in the EU over the period 2011–2018. Relying on transition probability matrices and dynamic random effects probit models, we provide evidence of a strong and persistent regional polarisation in the adoption and deployment of digital skills. Further, we investigate whether structural factors and European funds (European Regional Development Fund, Cohesion Funds and European Social Funds) are capable of shaping the digitalisation process and favouring regional convergence. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 820-844 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2265498 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2265498 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:820-844 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2174042_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Kristína Hrehová Author-X-Name-First: Kristína Author-X-Name-Last: Hrehová Author-Name: Erika Sandow Author-X-Name-First: Erika Author-X-Name-Last: Sandow Author-Name: Urban Lindgren Author-X-Name-First: Urban Author-X-Name-Last: Lindgren Title: Firm relocations, commuting and relationship stability Abstract: In this paper we study the impact of firm relocations on commuting distance and the probability of married couples and cohabiting couples with children separating. We use Swedish register data for the period 2010–16 and select employees of relocating firms with one workplace and more than 10 employees. Focusing on this sample allows us to use plausibly exogenous variation in the commuting distance arising from the relocation. We extend the literature on the effect of commuting on relationship stability by reducing the possibility for unobserved time-variant factors to bias our estimates. While previous literature has focused on the difference between short- and long-distance commuting, we focus on changes in the commuting distance that are externally induced by firm management. We find a small but statistically significant negative effect of increased firm relocation distance on family stability. A 10 km change in commuting distance leads to a 0.09 percentage point higher probability of separation if the commuter remains with the firm for the next five years. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 194-217 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2023 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2174042 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2174042 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:10:y:2023:i:1:p:194-217 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2325018_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Peter Musinguzi Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Musinguzi Author-Name: Renato A. Villano Author-X-Name-First: Renato A. Author-X-Name-Last: Villano Author-Name: Derek Baker Author-X-Name-First: Derek Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Title: Empirical analysis of social impacts of a rural social enterprise: insights for local and regional development Abstract: In developing countries the most marginalised and disadvantaged people are in rural, remote and regional areas and social enterprises in these areas – rural social enterprises (RSEs) – have been identified as key development actors in this context. However, their impacts are rarely rigorously measured. Our study fills this gap by measuring an RSE’s social impact in a developing country. A smallholder farmers’ survey (n = 1021) is utilised in a propensity score-based method which allowed us to generate counterfactual and estimate outcomes between members and non-members of an RSE. This method was complemented by a stakeholder focus group discussion. Predictors of participation and social impacts of the RSE are identified besides an evaluation of its interventions. Results generate implications for social enterprise practitioners, supporters and policymakers interested in applying RSEs as local and regional development actors as well as researchers involved in social impact measurement. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 211-235 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2325018 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2325018 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:211-235 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2374406_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Sarper Neyse Author-X-Name-First: Sarper Author-X-Name-Last: Neyse Author-Name: Emma Lundholm Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Lundholm Title: Individual gains and trade-offs from counterurban migration in Sweden Abstract: Counterurban migration is known to be driven by lifestyle motivations, in which employment considerations are more of an enabling factor than a driver. In this paper, the self-reported motives, along with labour-market and lifestyle outcomes, of counterurban migration are investigated. The focus is on trade-offs between work-related and lifestyle-related amenities for different subgroups based on recent survey data in Sweden collected from families with children in 2018–2019 who left metropolitan regions. The key results indicate that, overall, counterurban movers are satisfied with their decision and the majority cite the importance of lifestyle amenities over work-related amenities. Our conclusion is that, besides voluntary trade-offs, counterurban migration does not necessarily pose a trade-off between labour-market and lifestyle-related amenities since, to a large extent, individuals reported better outcomes in both areas. This study makes two contributions. Firstly, the data considers self-reported outcomes, including labour-market outcomes beyond income and lifestyle outcomes. Secondly, we explore individual characteristics of counterurban migrants in relation to post-migration outcomes in different destinations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 419-440 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2374406 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2374406 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:419-440 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2405175_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Jaume Pla-Bañuls Author-X-Name-First: Jaume Author-X-Name-Last: Pla-Bañuls Author-Name: Javier Esparcia Author-X-Name-First: Javier Author-X-Name-Last: Esparcia Title: Properly addressing rural shrinking? Overview of territorially unbalanced support programmes in Spain Abstract: Depopulation is very present in a large part of rural Spain. The central government is implementing a programme (with three different schemes) to support rural actors to foster social and economic development. The lack of social and private initiatives is pointed out by the government as the main reason, which explains that most of the funds are addressed to local public bodies, and not to social participation and entrepreneurship measures. In addition, the results indicate that there is an unbalanced territorial distribution of funds, which does not correspond to the areas where rural shrinking processes are most intense. These results draw attention to the need to introduce some corrective mechanisms in this public policy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 660-663 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2405175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2405175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:660-663 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2324017_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Paulo Miguel Madeira Author-X-Name-First: Paulo Miguel Author-X-Name-Last: Madeira Author-Name: Mário Vale Author-X-Name-First: Mário Author-X-Name-Last: Vale Author-Name: Jorge Malheiros Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Author-X-Name-Last: Malheiros Title: Regional development and non-territorial policies: meaningful evidence of a neglected relation Abstract: In the period after the 2008 financial crisis, the European Union and Brazil experienced, respectively, periods of regional divergence and convergence. The research developed in these two territories brings new evidence on the importance of non-territorial policies, that worked as indirect regional policy, for these trajectories. In the case of the EU, (direct) regional policy was not strong enough to counteract more non-territorial policies that acted in favour of divergence. In the case of Brazil, the absence of a relevant direct regional policy did not prevent convergence, since the government adopted a set of non-territorial sectoral policies that functioned as indirect regional policy. This is particularly relevant in the current European context, where prolonged social and economic stagnation or decline in many regions has been the source of discontent that is expressed electorally. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 192-210 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2324017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2324017 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:192-210 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2329601_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Gülfiye Özcan Alp Author-X-Name-First: Gülfiye Author-X-Name-Last: Özcan Alp Title: Cittaslow through the lens of sustainable urban development: a comparative analysis of Italy and Türkiye cases Abstract: Cittaslow emerged as a response to globalisation's devastating effects, particularly to small cities’ local economies and the fast-paced and homogenised lifestyle in urban areas. Cittaslow has been promoting a local development approach based on a community's way of life. However, the present literature on Cittaslow mainly focuses on tourism and destination development. The concept of Cittaslow itself appears to have become a global brand for small cities. Considering this, the paper aims to extend current knowledge of Cittaslow. The main research goal of this paper is to examine the extent to which Cittaslow provides a sustainable urban development policy. For the investigation, qualitative research is structured using the requirement of excellence. Cittaslow policies are evaluated based on sustainable urban development. Two cities from different countries are selected to compare these policies in diverse planning contexts. Field studies and interviews were conducted in two small cities: Abbiategrasso, a neighbouring city of Milan and Seferihisar, located within the Izmir Metropolitan Region. The findings indicate that Cittaslow policies focus on sustainable development. However, there are various complex issues in the related official documents. In both cities, interviews indicate numerous initiatives to implement Cittaslow policies and improve their quality of life. Seferihisar encountered difficulties because of its recognition as a designated ‘slow city’ brand. Without a comprehensive planning strategy, Cittaslow cities may risk jeopardising their unique local way of life. The main focus is to provide recommendations for enhancing current Cittaslow policies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 256-270 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2329601 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2329601 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:256-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2378780_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Giuseppe Calignano Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Author-X-Name-Last: Calignano Author-Name: Trond Nilsen Author-X-Name-First: Trond Author-X-Name-Last: Nilsen Title: Political leaders as agents in regional development Abstract: The study of agency has received increasing attention in recent years. The focus on change processes at the micro-level has brought new insights into the field of regional development. However, in debates about change and regional development, agents and leaders themselves have received far less attention than agency as a process. We provide an analytical model to show how political leaders and their leadership act as drivers of change through what we call actor properties (i.e., knowledge, networks and resources). We discuss how actor properties interact with the institutional context in which leaders operate and the various transitions from a political leader's legitimacy to the legacy of their political action. Empirical investigations of two peripheral regions in Italy and Norway illustrate how political leaders act as agents of change in geographical areas characterised by different socioeconomic and institutional contexts. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 479-495 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2378780 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2378780 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:479-495 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2381641_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Shifu Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Shifu Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Carles Méndez-Ortega Author-X-Name-First: Carles Author-X-Name-Last: Méndez-Ortega Author-Name: Ilaria Mariotti Author-X-Name-First: Ilaria Author-X-Name-Last: Mariotti Title: Location dynamics of coworking spaces in China: insights from Beijing metropolitan Abstract: This paper explores the location determinants of coworking spaces (CSs) in the Chinese capital of Beijing, thus filling the gap in the literature about CS location in urban China. The study applies a count data model (CDM) to the data collected in 2022 to answer three research questions: (1) Where are CSs located and what are the location determinants? (2) How does Beijing’s urban structure affect CS location determinants? (3) What role do creative industry specialisation, variety, government facilities and incentives play in CS location? The findings reveal that CSs in Beijing – most of them promoted by public authorities – tend to cluster in the central city where there is a high diversity of knowledge-intensive and creative industries. The semi-polycentric urban structure of Beijing affects the location of CSs by creating localised activity hubs. Furthermore, the study finds evidence that creative industry specialisation and variety are crucial factors in CS location. In addition, government facilities and incentives play a key role in driving their locations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 523-541 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2381641 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2381641 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:523-541 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2306862_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Luigi Orsi Author-X-Name-First: Luigi Author-X-Name-Last: Orsi Author-Name: Lorenzo Zanchi Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Zanchi Author-Name: Chiara Mazzocchi Author-X-Name-First: Chiara Author-X-Name-Last: Mazzocchi Title: Unveiling the drivers of large-scale land acquisitions in Asian countries: society, economy and environment Abstract: The rapid surge in large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) has been triggered by the convergence of food, financial and environmental crises in the late 2000s. Since the 2008 commodity price spike, several Asian countries have become preferential targets for LSLAs carried out by foreign companies and governments. The rising interest in Asian farmlands and natural resources arose in a complex set of political transitions and socioeconomic dynamics that have shaped the whole continent in the last decades. This study relies on a dataset built on different data sources, from 2003 to 2021 for a total of 14,724 million hectares involved in LSLAs in Asia. The southeastern region is the most targeted one, with Indonesia and the Philippines as the principal host countries. The main investors are intraregional and, especially in private or stock-exchange listed companies, are from China and Malaysia, who intend to produce palm oil or rubber. Results partially confirm the initial hypothesis, showing that the endowment of land and water resources in host countries is positively related to the amount of land acquired. Findings also show that investors are looking for free market areas, with low trade barriers and low fiscal pressure, where the protection of workers’ rights is lower than that in their homeland. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 63-85 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2306862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2306862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:63-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2359910_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Markku Sotarauta Author-X-Name-First: Markku Author-X-Name-Last: Sotarauta Author-Name: Teis Hansen Author-X-Name-First: Teis Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen Title: A competence set for sustainable urban development: framing a research agenda Abstract: The primary purpose of this paper is to call for more research on the competencies needed to promote sustainable urban development. Our premise is that sustainable urban development does not occur without transcending differing interests and identifying novel ways to collaborate across organisational and institutional boundaries. Relatedly, sustainable urban development calls for mobilisation and pooling of scattered assets. Therefore, sustainable urban development calls for enhanced competencies that significantly differ from the traditional capabilities valued in public administration. This premise leads us to determine what competencies are needed to support sustainable urban development and to ask how fragmented capabilities can be pooled to serve the common purpose. Sustainable urban development necessitates transformative system change, dependent on diverse stakeholders, relying on many actors’ knowledge and capabilities instead of a few selected actors’ expertise. To achieve a systemic perspective, we need to be able to group the capabilities and competencies; otherwise. We propose a conceptual framework drawing on insights from public administration, management studies, organisation studies, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that might allow us to move from individual capabilities to shared competencies and collective learning processes, thus adding analytical leverage to our efforts to strengthen the competencies embedded in systems but held by individuals. For analytical purposes, we adopt the concept of the competence set. It is geared toward identifying how different capabilities of many actors could be integrated at a systemic level so that a set would serve both the entire urban system and the actors embedded in it. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 351-361 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2359910 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2359910 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:351-361 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2374994_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Raphael Bar-El Author-X-Name-First: Raphael Author-X-Name-Last: Bar-El Author-Name: Sharon Hadad Author-X-Name-First: Sharon Author-X-Name-Last: Hadad Author-Name: Liran Maymoni Author-X-Name-First: Liran Author-X-Name-Last: Maymoni Author-Name: Ran Ben-Malka Author-X-Name-First: Ran Author-X-Name-Last: Ben-Malka Author-Name: Reut Megidish Author-X-Name-First: Reut Author-X-Name-Last: Megidish Title: Can the periphery survive innovation-led growth? Insights from Israel Abstract: This article explores the question of the integration ability of peripheral regions into innovation-led growth. While previous research has suggested that peripheral regions may be at a disadvantage, recent studies have argued that there may be potential benefits to their integration into the innovation process. This article offers a different approach for the examination of this controversy. First, it uses knowledge-based occupations as a measure of innovation activity (instead of types of activities such as startups, high-tech activities or services). Second, it considers innovation advance under two perspectives: demand (as measured by types of occupations installed in a region) and supply (as measured by types of occupations of the resident labour force). We use regression analysis to compare trends in the last two decades in Israel.Although findings indicate a process of adaptation of both periphery and centre to the innovation trend (in terms of increasing relative growth of high-level occupations), both in terms of supply and demand, steady gaps between the growth coefficients lead to a process of degradation of the periphery: lower increase of skills in the periphery and lower adaptation of demand to increasing skills. This results in a higher commuting rate (or migration) of skilled workers from the periphery, a substantial relative concentration of blue-collar occupations and an increasing supply of unskilled workers to the centre.The prevention or attenuation of such a process requires the consideration of policy measures regarding the prevailing ecosystem factors. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 453-470 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2374994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2374994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:453-470 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2374995_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Daniel S. Cho Author-X-Name-First: Daniel S. Author-X-Name-Last: Cho Author-Name: Beldina Owalla Author-X-Name-First: Beldina Author-X-Name-Last: Owalla Author-Name: Bingbing Ge Author-X-Name-First: Bingbing Author-X-Name-Last: Ge Title: Entrepreneurs in residence at the nexus of regional economy and university entrepreneurial ecosystems Abstract: Entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) is a novel perspective to analyse the interplay between support systems and businesses in regions. Simultaneously, universities have been playing increasingly important roles in entrepreneurship, fostering economic growth both through the wider regional economy (RE) and their own university EEs (UEEs). Entrepreneurs in residence (EiRs), chosen by universities as exemplar entrepreneurs, therefore provide potentially important conduits between the regional economy, UEEs and entrepreneurs, leading us to explore how and why do EiRs and universities interact in relation to entrepreneurial ecosystems to enhance the regional economy? Our qualitative study of a UK university case, conducted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which severely impacted many businesses’ access to resources, gives a particular temporal context to this research. It identifies accessing resources, building legitimacy and undertaking bridging activities as the three highest-level dimensions characterising EiR–university interactions, which have relevance for both the UEE and regional economy more widely, offering a framework for future EiR programmes. This study contributes to the regional entrepreneurship and EE literature, by examining the role of regional universities as anchor tenants and catalysts of entrepreneurial growth and resilience within regions, and calls for further research into the evolution of EiR–university interactions in different institutional contexts. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 441-452 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2374995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2374995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:441-452 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2380890_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Carlos Alberto Lastras Rodríguez Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Alberto Author-X-Name-Last: Lastras Rodríguez Title: Predicting social welfare in Madrid neighbourhoods using machine learning Abstract: This research aimed to identify the principal factors predicting social welfare and inequality in the neighbourhoods of Madrid city. A comprehensive dataset representing various socioeconomic metrics of Madrid’s neighbourhoods is analysed utilising different linear regression models and the XGBoost machine learning algorithm. The findings indicate that demographic variables play a crucial role in shaping social welfare and inequality in Madrid's neighbourhoods, with the percentage of women, and the percentage of children under 14 years old and adults over 65 years old being the most important variables for predicting social welfare and inequality in the studied neighbourhoods. Contrary to expectations, the average net income per household does not emerge as a significant predictor. Policymakers and urban planners should consider these factors to ensure equitable development and welfare distribution. The low impact of average net income per household on social welfare and inequality observed in this study should be regarded with some caution, but our findings certainly underline the need for a deeper understanding of socioeconomic dynamics in urban settings. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 496-522 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2380890 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2380890 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:496-522 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2419135_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Shivani Sickotra Author-X-Name-First: Shivani Author-X-Name-Last: Sickotra Title: Levelling up in a ‘decentralised’ England: place-based or ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategies? Abstract: English policymaking has traditionally been centralised, assuming homogenous needs across regions and contributing to economic inequalities. The Levelling Up Agenda aims to address these disparities through a place-based approach using devolved Combined Authority (CA) organisations. Despite being the first national strategy with an extensive place-based focus, it faces criticism as a potentially centralised political tool. Concerns also exist about whether Combined Authorities can deliver regional economic development as they have centrally controlled aspects. If regional planning approaches are identical, decentralisation through Combined Authorities would essentially be futile. This paper uses a novel quantitative method with Strategic Economic Plans to determine if regional planning inhibits a place-based or ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach, contributing data-driven insights to the debate regarding the efficacy of Combined Authorities. Through exploratory text analysis, hierarchical and K-means clustering, findings indicate regions adopt place-sensitive planning with varying sector priorities. A northern-southern and an inland-coastal distinction emerge, with London as an outlier. This suggests Combined Authorities are fit for purpose at this quantitative clustering level and do consider their geographical context in planning despite a devolved yet centrally controlled oxymoronic landscape. Collaborations like an inland and a coastal CA network are recommended to potentially maximise place-based growth. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 724-737 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2419135 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2419135 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:724-737 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2363842_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Manuel Olariaga-Santa-Cruz Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Olariaga-Santa-Cruz Author-Name: Arturo Rodríguez-Castellanos Author-X-Name-First: Arturo Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez-Castellanos Author-Name: Jon Barrutia-Güenaga Author-X-Name-First: Jon Author-X-Name-Last: Barrutia-Güenaga Author-Name: Virginia Rincón-Díez Author-X-Name-First: Virginia Author-X-Name-Last: Rincón-Díez Title: How to identify reference regions for comparison of innovation and competitiveness Abstract: Benchmarking has been deemed useful for the study of regional competitiveness and innovation and is quickly expanding. The aim of this work is the formulation and validation of a method to select the right regions to compare. The proposed method is of general application and can therefore be used by any region across the world wishing to benchmark against others in the field of competitiveness and innovation. This method is carried out in two successive stages. In the first stage, regions with higher innovation and competitiveness than the region under study are identified. In the second, a subset of regions with a resource base similar to the one under study is selected, which makes them suitable for the comparison. The method is validated by applying it to a European region. The results show the validity and robustness of the proposed method. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 362-383 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2363842 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2363842 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:362-383 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2370420_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Jorge Hernández-Moreno Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Author-X-Name-Last: Hernández-Moreno Author-Name: Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Baptiste Author-X-Name-Last: Harguindéguy Title: COVID-19 and territorial politics: towards a redefinition of Spanish intergovernmental relations? Abstract: When COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) struck Spain, it caused a multidimensional crisis that sparked countless debates on its health, social and political implications. Drawing on the literature on multilevel crisis management and federalism, this paper focuses on the impact of the pandemic on the Spanish intergovernmental relations between 2020 and 2022. This research demonstrates that several intergovernmental coordination and cooperation mechanisms were activated or reactivated at the political and technical levels. This change improved joint decision-making and strengthened the system’s own capacity to cope with future crises. In particular, this article shows how and to what extent the health crisis broke down the existing logic of discretionary collaboration and increased coherence among regional governments by strengthening the role of central ministries. Three movements have been observed and measured consisting in a growing institutionalisation, coordination and cross-sectoral logic of action. Consequently, we conclude that intergovernmental relations in Spain have been strengthened by the pandemic under the leadership of central ministries. The Spanish intergovernmental system has demonstrated its capacity to adapt to external shocks and its learning ability. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 387-405 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2370420 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2370420 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:387-405 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2326098_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Moreno Baruffini Author-X-Name-First: Moreno Author-X-Name-Last: Baruffini Author-Name: Federica Rossi Author-X-Name-First: Federica Author-X-Name-Last: Rossi Title: Who was more likely to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic? A gender perspective in Switzerland Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a significant impact on people's lives, both in terms of health and socioeconomic aspects. The pandemic has led to a shift in the work environment, with a massive increase in the number of people working from home due to movement restrictions. In this study, we analyse data from two waves (2019 and 2020) of the Swiss Labour Force Survey to investigate the prevalence of working from home in Switzerland before and during the pandemic. The study has two aims: to identify the characteristics of Swiss teleworkers during the pandemic and to determine if there is a gender gap in working from home. The findings reveal that highly educated workers with children in high-level occupations are more likely to telework. However, there is a gender gap in teleworking in some sectors, since part-time workers, who are mostly women (74 percent), are less likely to work from home than full-time workers. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 236-254 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2326098 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2326098 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:236-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2315187_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Paola Cardamone Author-X-Name-First: Paola Author-X-Name-Last: Cardamone Author-Name: Francesco Trivieri Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Trivieri Title: Out of sight, out of mind! Bank branch closures and new firm creation in Italy Abstract: Building on the literature underscoring the importance of lending relationships and the role of banks’ structural and organisational features in favouring firms’ access to credit, we investigate the effect of branch closures on firms’ birth rates in the Italian local credit markets in 2000–2020. Despite the potential relevance, the implications of de-branching activity have received modest attention from scholars thus far. By employing various measures of branch closures and econometric methodologies, we find that the de-branching process negatively affects the establishment of new firms, and this detrimental impact appears stronger as the closures involve older branches. The results also show that our main findings seem ascribable to the closures carried out by large/medium-sized banks. As a policy implication, our work suggests that – although driven by technological transformations and banks’ necessity to rationalise costs – authorities should consider the potential negative consequences that bank de-branching may entail for new business creation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 122-152 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2315187 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2315187 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:122-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2374403_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Mingbao Chen Author-X-Name-First: Mingbao Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Zhibin Xu Author-X-Name-First: Zhibin Author-X-Name-Last: Xu Title: Visualising Sustainable Development Goals progress of China’s coastal cities using circular-kaleidoscope charts Abstract: Cities are the frontiers of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Although quantitative methods have been applied to assess cities’ sustainability progress, knowledge gaps exist in the differences between inland and coastal cities’ performance and their internal variations against common standards. Using the Voronoi-based kaleidoscope diagram embedded in two circular plots, the article visualises the overall sustainability progress of China’s inland and coastal cities in economy, society, biosphere and partnership. By measuring overall progress with circular length and individual scores with kaleidoscope area size, triple inland-coastal gaps and trifold intracoastal inequalities were highlighted, as well as city types characterised by economy-society balance and land–sea relation. References for implementing sustainable development transformations for coastal cities were derived, along with the circular-kaleidoscope diagram’s potential for checking the pulse of cities’ performances in further uses and finishing the circle. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 474-478 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2374403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2374403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:474-478 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2336833_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Regional Studies, Regional Science Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 323-323 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2336833 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2336833 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:323-323 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2435854_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Stanislava Golubchenko Author-X-Name-First: Stanislava Author-X-Name-Last: Golubchenko Author-Name: Sumiko Ishibashi Author-X-Name-First: Sumiko Author-X-Name-Last: Ishibashi Author-Name: Takeshi So Author-X-Name-First: Takeshi Author-X-Name-Last: So Author-Name: Mamoru Taniguchi Author-X-Name-First: Mamoru Author-X-Name-Last: Taniguchi Title: The determinants and structure of happiness in different urban environments Abstract: Population aging has become one of the most urgent social issues in developed countries. However, its impact on the well-being of the population is understudied. In this study, we analysed happiness as one of the key components of well-being. The differences in the determinants and structures of happiness in municipalities with urban environments characterised by varying degrees of progress of problems related to population aging are studied. It was revealed that indicators related to subjective personal assessments of social stability and future aspirations influence happiness more than socioeconomic and demographic indicators or the indicators of the urban environment. Three factors (‘Socioeconomic stability’, ‘A sense of decline’ and ‘Residential satisfaction’) defined by various indicators contribute to the structure of happiness. ‘Socioeconomic stability’, related to subjective feelings and assessments of social aspects of life, was confirmed to be the strongest determinant in all types. Still, the impact of ‘Residential satisfaction’ is also significant and notable. The results demonstrate some differences in the determinants of happiness and thus suggest different policies would be appropriate to improve happiness in different types. For example, some areas need to develop infrastructure that is more suited to the needs of their population, whereas creating challenging jobs appears to be the priority in others. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 798-816 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2435854 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2435854 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:798-816 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2334057_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Archiman Biswas Author-X-Name-First: Archiman Author-X-Name-Last: Biswas Author-Name: Subrata Chattopadhyay Author-X-Name-First: Subrata Author-X-Name-Last: Chattopadhyay Title: What makes neighbourhood-level commercial centres attractive for neighbourhood residents? Abstract: Neighbourhood commercial centres (NCC) are dynamic hubs that provide essential goods, promote community bonds and drive economic growth. Despite numerous studies on shopping behaviour, there remains a notable gap in understanding how transportation and shopping centre-related factors collectively shape the attractiveness of the NCCs, especially in developing countries like India. This research aims to understand why some NCCs outperform others in terms of attractiveness. This study proposes the neighbourhood commercial centre attractiveness index (NCCAI), which is developed by collecting 455 samples from 13 NCCs with the help of a primary survey to understand how different factors influence the attractiveness of NCCs in the Indian planned city context. The study used principal component analysis (PCA) and identified five major components that significantly contribute to NCC’s attractiveness. Further, the weightage of the components was determined through two distinct approaches: one based on PCA results and the other utilising the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with expert opinion data. Finally, the more reliable weights from these two methodologies were selected using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The NCCAI can help urban planners, store owners and retail managers, providing data-driven insights to enhance overall NCC attractiveness. The decomposable nature of NCCAI allows for component score breakdown, enabling planners and policymakers to allocate resources strategically. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 291-310 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2334057 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2334057 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:291-310 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2342821_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Jonathan Hopkins Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Hopkins Author-Name: Margaret Currie Author-X-Name-First: Margaret Author-X-Name-Last: Currie Author-Name: Nicholas Schurch Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas Author-X-Name-Last: Schurch Author-Name: Graciela Martínez-Sánchez Author-X-Name-First: Graciela Author-X-Name-Last: Martínez-Sánchez Author-Name: Valentina Farinelli Author-X-Name-First: Valentina Author-X-Name-Last: Farinelli Title: Enhancing inclusive growth to create new evidence of rural diversity: an analysis in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland Abstract: This article applies a modified perspective of inclusive growth in order to understand the diversity of communities within a remote and predominantly rural region of northern Europe. A transdisciplinary process co-constructed an enhanced and regionally appropriate framework of inclusive growth, which recognised the importance of evaluating the concept as multidimensional and affected by the uneven contexts of physical geography and connectivity, and social characteristics, which influence development potential and community resilience, and which extend the relevance of inclusive growth to rural places. Operationalisation of this framework was achieved at the local level through quantitative multivariate analysis, which identified underlying dimensions of inclusive growth ‘performance’ representing interactions of broad economic outcomes and variation in geographical and social contexts, and then clusters of locations with similar characteristics. The evidence of multidimensional and geographical inequalities from this analysis was evaluated using a spatial justice perspective, enhancing the applicability of an inclusive growth framing as a means of understanding the wellbeing economy and rural diversity. Conceptually, the regionally-sensitive understanding of inclusive growth performance builds on and develops existing broader framings of inclusive growth. To avoid leaving places behind, policies which seek to achieve inclusive growth should recognise and adapt to nuanced and localised inequalities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 324-350 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2342821 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2342821 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:324-350 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2289911_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Melissa Rogers Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers Author-Name: Soha Hammam Author-X-Name-First: Soha Author-X-Name-Last: Hammam Title: Political sources of urban concentration in Latin America Abstract: Latin American nations are highly urbanised around a small number of megacities that account for the majority of these nations’ productivity and population. Scholars of urban planning and economics argue these cities may be overly large, leading to environmental, transportation and housing issues that depress growth and increase economic inequality. We use fine-grained satellite data from 1992–2018 to document urban concentration in Latin America. We argue political decentralisation creates incentives to distribute urban populations more evenly throughout the territory. Our results demonstrate a strong empirical relationship between political decentralisation and lower urban concentration. We link our findings to literature on economic geography, political institutions and urbanisation, with broader implications for the politics of economic growth. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-21 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2289911 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2023.2289911 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:1-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2422348_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Florian Klopfer Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Klopfer Author-Name: Dietwald Gruehn Author-X-Name-First: Dietwald Author-X-Name-Last: Gruehn Title: Leveraging open source land use and land cover data for urban and regional planning in transforming areas Abstract: A steadily growing repository of publicly available land use and land cover (LULC) data holds great potential for addressing pressing challenges, e.g., associated with climate change or profound societal and economic transformations. However, significant portions of this data remain underutilised. This article exemplifies the practical applicability of harnessing such data for advancing spatial planning within the Rhineland mining area, Germany – a region currently undergoing significant structural shifts induced by the upcoming coal phase-out. The study features a three-pronged approach, integrating and overlaying numerous diverse datasets. First, we conduct a comprehensive assessment of ecosystem services (ES) in the region (1). Moreover, we present an evaluation of areas (un)suitable for future settlement development based on multiple constraints (2). Finally, we offer community-level analyses assessing the most suitable future land use focus, considering current LULC and ES information presenting three primary options: settlement, agriculture and natural/recreation (3). Findings are conveyed at various levels of spatial and informational granularity. We show spatially differentiated patterns of combined ES pronunciation, constraints for settlement development, and the suitability for the mentioned land use categories being meaningful in both the detailed and the reduced representation. This accommodates distinct planning requirements and audiences, spanning from regional to urban land use planning and from informing laypersons to providing knowledge to planning professionals. The approach possesses wide-ranging applicability and adaptability. It should encourage practitioners/planners to explore untapped potentials within open data for shaping planning processes and informing stakeholders. Primary benefits include objectifying and optimising planning processes while promoting their acceptance. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 738-756 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2422348 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2422348 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:738-756 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2407404_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Eduardo Graells-Garrido Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Graells-Garrido Author-Name: Francisco Rowe Author-X-Name-First: Francisco Author-X-Name-Last: Rowe Title: Identifying the spatial patterns of population displacement during wildfires in Valparaíso, Chile Abstract: We present a data visualisation approach to support the rapid humanitarian response during the 2024 Valparaíso wildfires in Chile. Combining Meta user location data for population displacement, NASA FIRMS satellite imagery for wildfire locations, and census data, we identify key origins and destinations of displaced people during recent wildfires in Valparaíso, Chile. Our choropleth maps reveal spatial patterns of movement and socioeconomic factors, demonstrating the value of integrating diverse data sources for near real-time crisis response. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 664-666 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2407404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2407404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:664-666 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2402934_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: John Eugene Chrisman Author-X-Name-First: John Eugene Author-X-Name-Last: Chrisman Title: More frequent and stronger ties? Using QCA to assess the effects of policy in a Norwegian biotech cluster Abstract: The purpose of this article is to evaluate the possible impact of an indirect policy measure implemented in a Norwegian biotech cluster aiming to enhance collaborations between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and higher education institutions. Through the adoption of a dynamic approach (i.e., two distinct periods: 2014–2017 and 2018–2021) and qualitative comparative analysis, this study demonstrates an increase in the frequency and intensity of collaboration between the two periods. It also highlights the combinations of conditions possibly enabling SMEs to benefit from the targeted indirect policy measure. The study shows how structural, ‘softer’ elements, such as age, size and trust toward the cluster administration, can overcome deficiencies in innovativeness and human capital and similarly can lead to more frequent and intense ties. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 645-659 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2402934 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2402934 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:645-659 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2373176_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Max Roessler Author-X-Name-First: Max Author-X-Name-Last: Roessler Title: Untangling regional development traps through narratives Abstract: Based on two case studies in Germany, this study disentangles development traps by focusing on the role of narratives and imaginaries in peripheral regions. Drawing on 43 interviews and two focus groups, it shows how regions move towards development traps despite putative new opportunities through green transitions. The study highlights different narrative dimensions and how they serve as indicators for regional development trajectories. It expands the understanding of development traps and peripheral regions by showing how stories and imaginaries held by key actors materialise and become regional realities and calls for more place sensitivity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 406-418 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2373176 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2373176 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:406-418 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2375012_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Hengyu Gu Author-X-Name-First: Hengyu Author-X-Name-Last: Gu Author-Name: Yuting Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Yuting Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Visualising intercity mobility patterns during China’s Spring Festival travel rush under the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: This paper introduces a new tool, the lunar phase visualisation, and conducts a multitemporal analysis of the spatial patterns and their changes in China’s intercity mobility during the Spring Festival travel rush between 2019 and 2023. By associating the volume of intercity movement in China across various years with lunar phases, it illustrates that during both the return home (first 20 days) and back-to-city (last 20 days) periods, intercity mobility demonstrates a trend of initial decline followed by an increase. This trend aligns with the onset and subsequent mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more pronounced changes observed at the city level versus the provincial level. It also underscores the resilience of mobility during traditional holidays amid a public health crisis. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 471-473 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2375012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2375012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:471-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2430540_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Alejandra Trejo-Nieto Author-X-Name-First: Alejandra Author-X-Name-Last: Trejo-Nieto Title: Unveiling the intermediate role of Mexico’s mid-sized metropolises Abstract: This paper analyses the role of metropolises that occupy a secondary place in urban systems and distinguishes between the intermediation and other strategic roles that they can play. As an empirical approximation to secondary cities, the paper operationalises mid-sized cities according to population size and evaluates the economic performance of metropolitan areas within Mexico’s urban system. Drawing on the theories of borrowed size and agglomeration shadows, the paper discusses whether mid-sized metropolitan areas in Mexico have evolved into intermediate urban centres that can drive development and growth. Additionally, the study identifies the economic performance factors across the group of mid-sized metropolises. Different economic performance indicators are calculated and an econometric model is estimated for the period 2008–2018. We find that, with a few exceptions, mid-sized metropolitan areas in Mexico have not evolved into intermediate metropolises and face challenges that limit their strategic role in their respective urban system. This analysis contributes to the literature on secondary cities by studying and providing empirical insights into the functioning and evolution of urban systems that have traditionally been centralised around a single megacity, such as Mexico City. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 777-797 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2430540 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2430540 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:777-797 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2388075_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Duygu Buyukyazici Author-X-Name-First: Duygu Author-X-Name-Last: Buyukyazici Title: Digital skills and industrial diversification of regions Abstract: The present study investigates the interconnected dynamics among digitalisation, workplace skills and the industrial diversification process of regions. By underscoring the multifaceted nature of these relationships, it explores how digital skills influence the evolution of industries across diverse regions, shedding light on their spatial distribution and impact on regional development trajectories. Additionally, the paper emphasises the nuanced interplay between digital skills and the path-dependent factors, relatedness and complexity, addressing their collective impact on regional economic landscapes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 583-598 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2388075 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2388075 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:583-598 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2405580_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Dario D’Ingiullo Author-X-Name-First: Dario Author-X-Name-Last: D’Ingiullo Author-Name: Iacopo Odoardi Author-X-Name-First: Iacopo Author-X-Name-Last: Odoardi Author-Name: Davide Quaglione Author-X-Name-First: Davide Author-X-Name-Last: Quaglione Author-Name: Claudio Di Berardino Author-X-Name-First: Claudio Author-X-Name-Last: Di Berardino Title: Exploring the nexus between exports’ economic complexity and institutional quality: insights from Italian provinces Abstract: The present research aims to investigate the determinants of economic development and productivity by proposing an empirical analysis of the economic effects of institutional quality on the economic complexity of export at the intra-national level, focusing on 103 Italian provinces from 2004 to 2016. Using the System Generalised Method of Moments (System-GMM) estimator, the study assesses the influence of various institutional dimensions on provincial economic complexity, as measured by the Economic Complexity Index (ECI). The findings indicate that institutional quality, particularly rule of law, regulatory quality, and voice and accountability, significantly enhances economic complexity. Better formal and informal institutions such as completeness of contracts, social cohesion, contract enforcement, by reducing transaction costs and uncertainty, and by favouring knowledge dissemination and security of investments, are source of comparative advantage in complex industries that lead to diversified and sophisticated production, fostering economic growth and innovation. Moreover, the study emphasises the importance of related activities, which interact with institutions to support complex and innovative export-related activities through knowledge spillovers and related diversification. The analysis also highlights the pivotal role of human capital, social capital, and innovation, which should remain focal points for policymakers. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 667-695 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2405580 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2405580 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:667-695 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2332136_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Correction Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 255-255 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2332136 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2332136 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:255-255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2325172_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Zelinna Pablo Author-X-Name-First: Zelinna Author-X-Name-Last: Pablo Author-Name: Clare Littleton Author-X-Name-First: Clare Author-X-Name-Last: Littleton Author-Name: Kerry London Author-X-Name-First: Kerry Author-X-Name-Last: London Title: Reconceptualising resilience in housing policy: an actor-network approach Abstract: During the pandemic, our needs and expectations of our housing stock rapidly expanded to cope with demands of lockdowns, working from home and restricted access to other neighbourhoods. Empirical studies over the last few years indicate how concepts such as multifunctionality, responsiveness, social connectivity and localisation became critical. In many cases, the pandemic deepened existing housing-related inequities. Households already struggling with lower incomes found themselves contending with even more challenges: constrained spaces, inadequate heating and the noise of neighbours. Given the strong link between housing and health, there is an urgent need to understand the ability of our current housing stock to meet the demands of such ‘shocks’. Of particular importance is the concept of resilience in housing systems. Resilience has become ubiquitous in policy discourse but is underdeveloped and undertheorised. We thus use actor-network theory (ANT) concepts to develop a multi-level conceptualisation of resilience, arguing that ‘housing resilience’ unfolds on five levels: resilience within an individual dwelling, within housing supply, within the housing supply chain, between dwellings and communities and between dwellings and the natural environment. We then demonstrated the robustness of this conceptualisation by mobilising it as a lens for an analysis, starting with 11 state-level housing policies in Australia. We selected the ‘best practice’ housing policy with the most extensive reference to resilience. We then evidenced how our multi-level conceptualisation allows us to identify critical gaps even in this ‘exemplar’ housing policy, interrogate its structure and prioritise future action plans. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 271-290 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2325172 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2325172 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:271-290 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2390515_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Giuseppe Di Vita Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Author-X-Name-Last: Di Vita Author-Name: Paolo Lorenzo Ferrara Author-X-Name-First: Paolo Lorenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrara Author-Name: Alessandra Patti Author-X-Name-First: Alessandra Author-X-Name-Last: Patti Title: An empirical study of administrative justice at times of COVID-19 in Italy Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the functioning of the Regional Administrative Courts (TAR) in Italy. For this purpose, we constructed two databases covering the period from 2018 to 2021, gathering macroeconomic and microeconomic data from the TARs of the Italian regions (NUTS-2). Despite the brevity of the period, the availability of data allows us to perform a comprehensive analysis with econometric models for micro and macro data. Empirical findings suggest the existence of two-fold and simultaneous effects of COVID-19 on the efficiency of administrative courts: on one hand, the advent of COVID-19 has led to the reorganisation of courts and related-activities, prolonging the duration of administrative disputes. On the other hand, COVID-19 has introduced measures to limit face-to-face activities, such as holding hearings in person, and adopting information and communications technologies (ICTs) to prosecute judicial activities. This measure proved beneficial to the proper functioning of the Italian TARs by reducing the duration of administrative proceedings. Policy implications indicate that the digitalisation of administrative procedures, not only during COVID-19, is crucial for enhancing the promptness of the administrative disputes of the Italian TARs. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 558-582 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2390515 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2390515 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:558-582 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2314396_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Nicholas Sheard Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas Author-X-Name-Last: Sheard Title: Flattening which curve? Property-price gradients in New South Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: This paper tests how the patterns of residential property values in the Australian state New South Wales changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2019 and 2021, property values became relatively high in medium-sized towns and cities, suggesting those locations became more attractive. In its capital and largest city Sydney, the premium on proximity to the central business district (CBD), where employment is heavily concentrated, decreased after 2019 and that decrease persisted beyond the end of pandemic measures. The premium in Sydney on proximity to the beach has increased, but on a trajectory consistent with an existing trend. The decreased premium on proximity to the CBD since 2019 appears to have initially been related to the value of access via public transport, but then also to the value of access by car. The findings suggest shifts in regional development and urban form that could have implications for how cities are planned and developed. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 153-174 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2314396 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2314396 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:153-174 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2305946_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Nuo Jin Author-X-Name-First: Nuo Author-X-Name-Last: Jin Title: Analysing firm-level impacts of high-speed railways on reducing business costs: evidence from China Abstract: Numerous studies have revealed that high-speed railways (HSRs) can efficiently reduce transportation costs for firms and therefore bring more business capacities to firms in regions with HSR services. This paper aims to adopt the difference-in-difference (DID) and PSM (propensity score matching) DID methods to examine the HSR’s causal effects on business costs. The author finds that business costs are significantly reduced due to the operation of HSR lines. Besides, private firms and firms in the secondary and tertiary sectors would experience more reductions of business costs encouraged by the HSR than state-owned and agricultural firms. The placebo test and parallel trend test have proved the feasibility of this study. Finally, this paper provides policy suggestions that the construction of HSR lines needs to be encouraged in order to promote the higher efficiency of business operations for firms and more-balanced spatial business developments in China. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 22-37 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2305946 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2305946 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:22-37 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2425328_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Sugam Agarwal Author-X-Name-First: Sugam Author-X-Name-Last: Agarwal Author-Name: Smruti Ranjan Behera Author-X-Name-First: Smruti Ranjan Author-X-Name-Last: Behera Title: Mammoth backlog of court cases pending in India: A spatial visualisation Abstract: The judiciary plays a pivotal role in maintaining the rule of law and protecting the fundamental rights of citizens, pledging the efficient enforcement of rules and regulations and upholding civil and criminal justice in principles. The judicial system in an emerging economy like India must ensure timely and equitable justice for all citizens. For more than the last thirty years, the Indian judiciary has been facing colossal pendency levels and long case processing times. Against this backdrop, this paper visualises the spatial variations in the number of unresolved court cases in different districts of India in 2023. The spatial visualisation using a cartogram map elucidates some specific districts in certain Indian states, based on their population, that are now awaiting huge court proceedings. The spatial variations in pending cases across different regions emphasise the need for deliberate initiatives to promote regional justice by maximising the number of pending cases to be disposed of as soon as possible. The visualisation analysis validates that for the smooth functioning of overburdened pending court proceedings and to maximise the number of cases disposed, the judicial system needs substantial reforms, upgradation of massive court infrastructure, required reallocation and recruitment of judges and court staff, especially in high-density populated areas like New Delhi and Mumbai metropolitan cities in India. Therefore, this finding suggests that a massive backlog of pending court and overburdened cases knowledge is critical for state governments seeking to increase judicial efficiency by focusing on districts with a high volume of pending cases. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 757-760 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2425328 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2425328 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:757-760 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2427197_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Mai-Anh T. Pham Author-X-Name-First: Mai-Anh T. Author-X-Name-Last: Pham Author-Name: Preety Pratima Srivastava Author-X-Name-First: Preety Pratima Author-X-Name-Last: Srivastava Title: Local economic governance and formalisation of micro and small firms: a gender perspective Abstract: Informal enterprises are prevalent in developing countries, and many of these are owned by women. Informally working women are vulnerable and face disadvantages in accessing government support. This study examines the relationship between local economic governance and formalisation of micro and small firms with a focus on gender dynamics. While we find a positive association between the quality of provincial economic governance and businesses’ formalisation status, there is no gender differential effect of economic governance. However, gender disparities emerge when we explore the multidimensions of provincial economic governance separately. Notably, there is a higher probability of women-owned firms to be formal when reduced time cost and effective legal institutions are prevalent in local areas. In contrast, the formalisation of men-owned firms is closely tied to other facets of local governance, notably entry costs and labour training. Our findings will assist policymakers in designing better policy frameworks and implementing more effective institutional reforms to advance gender parity and stimulate the formalisation of women-owned businesses. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 761-776 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2427197 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2427197 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:761-776 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2407410_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Jieyang Xiong Author-X-Name-First: Jieyang Author-X-Name-Last: Xiong Author-Name: Liwei Wang Author-X-Name-First: Liwei Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Tao Song Author-X-Name-First: Tao Author-X-Name-Last: Song Author-Name: Haimeng Liu Author-X-Name-First: Haimeng Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: Visualising trade-related virtual urban land transfers in China Abstract: As a type of environmental footprint, the concept of virtual land captures the indirect land use embedded in our consumption and trade activities. Utilising the environmentally-extended multi-regional input–output model (EEMRIO) and Kaleidoscope diagram, we visualise for the first time the interprovincial flow of virtual urban land in China. It unveils the intricate urban network connections and the telecoupled interactions between human activities and land use amidst China's rapid urbanisation phase. The results indicate that the eastern region of China emerges as the primary net beneficiary of virtual urban land, whereas the western region stands as the principal net contributor. The local urban land in 65% of the provinces suffices for their own consumption demands. However, provinces like Zhejiang, Henan, and Jiangsu rely heavily on inter-provincial urban land to fulfil their consumption requirements. Inter-regional trade plays a pivotal role in facilitating the flow of land resources, significantly easing the strain between human demands and land availability in the developed coastal provinces of eastern China. Yet, it imposes additional ecological pressure on the more ecologically vulnerable areas in the west. The insights from this research are poised to offer valuable guidance for the Chinese government in harmonising urban development strategies, industrial distribution and the allocation of construction land on a national scale. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 696-700 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2407410 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2407410 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:696-700 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2310934_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Correction Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 86-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2310934 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2310934 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:86-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2315192_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Kathyayini Kathy Rao Author-X-Name-First: Kathyayini Kathy Author-X-Name-Last: Rao Author-Name: Catherine Mackenzie Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Mackenzie Author-Name: Sudarshan Subedi Author-X-Name-First: Sudarshan Author-X-Name-Last: Subedi Title: The dynamic capabilities approach and regional business resilience: an Australian case study Abstract: The frequency and severity of major disruptions (e.g., disasters, epidemics/pandemics) are increasing, significantly impacting business survival in regional areas. Using the dynamic capabilities approach, this paper reports on the recovery pathways and resilience of Australian regional businesses during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. A case study approach is adopted to explore the capabilities through which regional businesses can plan for, recover from, and develop strategies for building resilience. Using the data from 18 semi-structured interviews with business owners operating in different industry sectors and a web-based forum with 10 key stakeholders in regional South Australia, a dynamic capabilities resilience framework is developed. Results suggest that the dynamic capabilities approach during crises can become integral to the long-term business recovery of regional Australian businesses. By revealing both the determinants of business survival and the constraints regional businesses face during major crises, the study contributes information that businesses, government and non-government agencies that support them can use to develop effective recovery pathways, which is central to the future sustainability of regional Australia. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 175-191 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2315192 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2315192 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:175-191 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2402484_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Kevin Mulligan Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Mulligan Title: Government support for firm-level innovation in less innovation-intense regions Abstract: Regional innovation intensity is a crucial external factor that influences firm-level innovation outcomes. Firms located in less innovation-intense regions typically under-perform equivalent firms in more innovation-intense regions. Research to-date suggests that the effectiveness of government support for firm-level innovation varies markedly, depending on a firms’ location. However, almost no evidence exists on the effectiveness of government innovation support, in the specific case of firms located in less innovation-intense regions. To fill this gap in the literature, this paper addresses the following research question: What impact does government innovation support have on firm-level innovation in less innovation-intense regions? The analysis draws on the World Bank’s 2010 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, for five South American countries. Results show that subsidised firms, located in less innovation-intense regions, significantly underperform matched-unsubsidised firms in higher innovation-intensity regions. This result suggests that regional innovation-intensity is a crucial factor in determining the effectiveness of government innovation subsidies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 632-644 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2402484 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2402484 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:632-644 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2334814_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Desy Hariyati Author-X-Name-First: Desy Author-X-Name-Last: Hariyati Title: Bring mutual trust back: explaining underdevelopment among privileged regions Abstract: This article examines how trust between the regional government and its citizens contributes to the embodiment of participatory policymaking at the provincial level and impacts regional development. Different from previous studies on trust, which focused primarily on quantitative approaches and thereby left the social-political context out, this study employs a qualitative approach to present more profound findings and contextual aspects that reflect actors’ trust. The context is the existence of a local political dynasty that dominates the political, bureaucratic and business arenas. It also captures a regional development paradox in which a province is persistently underprivileged among well-developed adjacent regions. Primary data collection involves in-depth interviews with selected business actors, academics, NGOs and high-, middle- and low-ranking government officials at the provincial level. The findings reveal a lack of trust between the regional government and citizens, which explains poor participation in policymaking hence sluggish regional development. Each actor seems to lack the necessary competence, integrity and benevolence to cooperate in regional policymaking. These findings also fill a theoretical gap left by previous studies on trust which have primarily focused on citizen trust in government. At the same time, this article also pays more attention to government trust in citizens, which remains understudied. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 311-322 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2334814 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2334814 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:311-322 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2402479_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Zhenpeng Zou Author-X-Name-First: Zhenpeng Author-X-Name-Last: Zou Author-Name: Jonathan Corcoran Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Corcoran Author-Name: Thomas Sigler Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Sigler Author-Name: Elin Charles-Edwards Author-X-Name-First: Elin Author-X-Name-Last: Charles-Edwards Title: Reset or renaissance? An exploratory comparison of pre- and post-pandemic regional short-term rental markets in Australia Abstract: Following nearly a decade of unabated growth in the digitally disruptive short-term rental (STR) sector, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 caused a relatively abrupt two-year industry contraction characterised by substantial reductions in participating properties and booking activities. Given the sudden opportunity to rethink how STR markets fit alongside more traditional accommodation arrangements, this unanticipated Black Swan event catalysed much debate about the role that STRs play, and how they are regulated and managed. As the STR market rebounds toward a ‘new normal’, a timely opportunity exists to understand and theorise how and where the industry evolves. In this paper, we apply regression modelling and descriptive statistics to compare STR property utilisation across four regional markets in Australia both before and after the pandemic. We observe a sharp reduction yet strong intensification in available properties after the COVID-19 pandemic, with 27% fewer properties that were booked 26% more often across the nation. This was led by a significant geographical shift from capital cities to high-amenity, tourist-focused regions. Our findings suggest that this pivot is driven by spatial market segmentation, in which urban STRs are operated professionally, whereas regional markets are distinguished by their amenity value, both at the regional and property scales. Combined, the results of this study point to a more professionalised STR hosting landscape in which properties are more intensively used. Any potential policy reform should consider this evolution in the STR accommodation sector. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 614-631 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2402479 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2402479 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:614-631 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2401550_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Brita Hermelin Author-X-Name-First: Brita Author-X-Name-Last: Hermelin Author-Name: Sara Gustafsson Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Gustafsson Title: A local governance initiative for climate mitigation: the place-leading role of local government Abstract: The aim of this paper is to contribute with an understanding of the governance capacity of local public actors to be place leaders for local collaborative initiatives aimed at addressing climate mitigation, and how this agency is embedded within place-specific institutional conditions. The research design is a single case study of a climate mitigation initiative in the city of Uppsala in Sweden. The discussion based on the empirical results highlights three findings. Firstly, that the political and administrative arms of local government interact in their capacity to be place leaders in local interventions. Secondly, that the capacity of local government to provide place leadership needs to be conceived in relation to the place and the institutional structure of the local environment. Thirdly, that the role of place leader for governance is imbued with governance dilemmas deriving from how the steering role is negotiated. The concluding discussion argues for the need of a detailed understanding of place-leading agency to achieve a deeper understanding of governance capacity. This paper illustrates that place leadership is multifaceted and means different things across the cycles of collaborative governance. The concluding discussion also stresses the importance of understanding governance dilemmas in making actors prepared to strategically take position for their involvement and engagement in collaborations. This means that maintaining collaborative governance is an important strategy for meeting social challenges, but that this needs to be developed based on thorough knowledge about the intrinsic conditions for such arrangements and processes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 599-613 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2401550 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2401550 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:599-613 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2311099_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Igor Calzada Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Calzada Title: How do small nations cooperate? An action research framework for Wales and the Basque Country Abstract: Against the backdrop of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Welsh and Basque Governments in 2018, this article introduces a multiscalar and transdisciplinary social sciences action research framework that emerged from a workshop held in May 2023. The workshop engaged stakeholders from both sides and is part of the broader ongoing project. This project seeks to address the main research question, ‘How do small nations cooperate?’ through the exploration of transregional cooperation and mutual learning between Wales and the Basque Country. The structure of the article is as follows: First, it commences with an introduction defining ‘small nations’, presenting the main research question, articulating two related aims, outlining three primary methodological goals and providing a broad context for these two small nations within the framework of their MoU. Second, following a brief description of each small nation, the article concurrently develops the action research methodological framework while analysing findings stemming from workshop discussions between stakeholders of Wales and the Basque Country. They addressed three intertwined territorial scale challenges: Macro, examined through devolution and fiscal federalism perspectives; Meso, explored through social innovations in urban spaces in Cardiff (SPARK) and Bilbao (ASFabrik); and Micro, investigated through grassroots innovations. Finally, the article concludes with an action research and policy agenda. It suggests one operational research question per territorial scale as the conclusion of this article, offering a response to the main research question. The conclusion acknowledges limitations and outlines future research and policy pathways for this ongoing project. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 87-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2311099 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2311099 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:87-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2305951_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Brian Whitacre Author-X-Name-First: Brian Author-X-Name-Last: Whitacre Title: The fibre broadband housing premium across three US States Abstract: This paper meshes 1.7 million housing transactions across three US states (Iowa, Minnesota and Texas) between 2015 and 2021 with data on broadband infrastructure to evaluate the impact of fibre broadband availability on home prices. This was a period of dramatic fibre growth in these states: prior to 2019, fibre was only available to roughly 24% of the houses sold but rose to 54% in later years. A traditional hedonic pricing model that includes a wide array of housing characteristics and census block group-level fixed effects estimates the fibre premium at around 1% in all three states for the full 2105–2021 period. The fibre premium was higher in the earlier part of this period, likely reflecting its novelty during that time. A more rigorous instrumental variable approach estimates the fibre premium at 2% in Minnesota and 9% in Texas. A conservative national estimate of the increase in housing value from deploying ubiquitous fibre is $36 billion. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 38-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2305951 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2305951 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:38-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2382341_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Luke McGrath Author-X-Name-First: Luke Author-X-Name-Last: McGrath Title: Analysing the interplay of regional economic structures and COVID-19's impact on Irish regions Abstract: This paper analyses the regional economic impacts of COVID-19 in Ireland. The results show regional labour market impacts were related to pre-existing economic structures rather than infection rates. Drivers of the employment shock were found to be regional specialisms in tourism focused sectors. Cushions were provided by regional specialisms in agriculture, healthcare and the knowledge intensive service sectors. For more rural regions that appeared more resilient to the labour market shock, cushions were likely provided by employment in slower growth potential sectors. During the recovery phase, these cushions can become anchors contributing to regional divergence. Consequently, some regions less severely impacted by the pandemic shock may, in fact, face more difficult structural challenges in the longer term. The pandemic has thus exacerbated pre-existing structural issues that are likely related to the observed regional economic divergence and findings of regional development traps since the recovery from the previous recessionary period of the 2010s. The broad implication is that that the regional recovery from the pandemic will not be based purely on short term COVID-19 exposure. In general terms, regional policy should look beyond the initial pandemic shocks to the key underlying development issues. A central point here is that there are no quick transformational fixes rather long-term structural imbalances need to be met. The key policy challenge, in the Irish case, is to avoid the trend from the previous economic crisis of regional divergence during the recovery phase. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 542-557 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2382341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2382341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:542-557 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2312186_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Mathias Heidinger Author-X-Name-First: Mathias Author-X-Name-Last: Heidinger Author-Name: Michaela Fuchs Author-X-Name-First: Michaela Author-X-Name-Last: Fuchs Author-Name: Alain Thierstein Author-X-Name-First: Alain Author-X-Name-Last: Thierstein Title: The contribution of knowledge-intensive firms to employment growth: a Granger causality approach for German regions Abstract: Academic discussions have frequently examined the interrelation between regional employment growth and firm locations. Two growth patterns emerge: employment growth induced through new firm locations or vice versa, where firms locate in areas experiencing employment supply growth. The specific causal relationship responsible for regional employment growth in Germany remains uncertain. In the German context, however, more research is needed to identify contributors to employment growth, as most existing studies rely on highly aggregated data or focus on specific case studies. This paper aims to approach this subject by using a uniquely matched dataset of firm locations and the individual employment of 480 multi-locational firms in the knowledge economy and comparing it to total employment in Germany. We assume that a change in knowledge-intensive firms’ employment may affect regional employment growth. The study uses longitudinal historical employment data at the functional urban area (FUA) level from 1999 to 2019, aggregated to knowledge-intensive high-tech and advanced producer services (APS) sectors. The analysis employs aggregated and individual Granger causality tests, evaluating the relationship between employment in knowledge-intensive sectors and overall employment change. Results are spatialised using GIS to provide evidence of where the Granger causalities occur at the FUA level in Germany. Findings indicate that, in general, knowledge-intensive employment growth Granger causes total employment growth in a few economically more active FUAs. In contrast, for a greater number of FUAs, total employment Granger causes knowledge-intensive employment. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 103-121 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2312186 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2312186 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:103-121 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2412015_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Nicola Camatti Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Camatti Author-Name: Giulia Carallo Author-X-Name-First: Giulia Author-X-Name-Last: Carallo Author-Name: Roberto Casarin Author-X-Name-First: Roberto Author-X-Name-Last: Casarin Author-Name: Xiang Feng Author-X-Name-First: Xiang Author-X-Name-Last: Feng Title: Measuring daily tourism mobility spillover at the intra-metropolis level with mobile positioning data Abstract: Although tourism mobility spillover continues to be a key indicator for tourism management, more innovative research must be conducted at the micro level and high sampling frequency. Against the backdrop of an increasing number of global cities, in this paper, we evaluate the daily tourism mobility spillover inside a worldwide city of China: Shanghai. Based on the Granger causal network model and an original mobile positioning dataset, we analyse the causal relationship between local tourism flows and the spillover effects of tourism mobility within Shanghai. By categorising tourists into ‘local tourists from Shanghai’ and ‘tourists from out of Shanghai’, we reveal a significant causal relationship between Shanghai districts and flows generated by ‘tourists from out of Shanghai’. The analysis of the causal network structure also reveals key districts and points of interest that significantly contribute to congestion in tourism mobility and Shanghai's dynamics. This econometric approach offers policymakers a valuable tool to monitor mobility drivers and optimise flows within the city. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 701-723 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2412015 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2412015 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:701-723 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2369550_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20241127T073524 git hash: 0fa6686462 Author-Name: Jinpeng Wang Author-X-Name-First: Jinpeng Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Yujie Hu Author-X-Name-First: Yujie Author-X-Name-Last: Hu Author-Name: Li Duan Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Duan Author-Name: George Michailidis Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Michailidis Title: Analysing and visualising mobility vulnerability and recovery across Florida neighbourhoods: a case study of Hurricane Ian Abstract: Effective hurricane preparedness and response demand a thorough understanding of the impact on mobility patterns. While existing studies have explored mobility disruptions caused by hurricanes, very few have delved into the impact, considering both mobility vulnerability and recovery, on a state level. Utilising mobile phone location data, this research examines the mobility patterns of Florida residents throughout Hurricane Ian. The findings reveal that the hurricane profoundly disturbed the mobility patterns of Floridians. The state experienced a maximum average daily mobility reduction of 63.41%, with certain neighbourhoods coming to a complete standstill at 100% cessation in mobility. On average, Florida neighbourhoods needed 2.61 days for mobility recovery, though this period stretched to as long as 92 days in the most severely affected areas. The bivariate map highlights a prevailing trend: neighbourhoods with prolonged recovery periods also witnessed more substantial reductions in mobility. This dual disadvantage underscores the critical need for increased focus on these neighbourhoods. Furthermore, our findings highlight the significance of factoring in forecasted hurricane paths when analysing mobility impacts, as we noted more substantial effects on neighbourhoods along the predicted trajectory. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 384-386 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2024 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2369550 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2369550 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:11:y:2024:i:1:p:384-386 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2454275_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Krzysztof Kluza Author-X-Name-First: Krzysztof Author-X-Name-Last: Kluza Author-Name: Hanna Kociemska Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Kociemska Author-Name: Wojciech Rafał Author-X-Name-First: Wojciech Author-X-Name-Last: Rafał Title: Balancing the books or winning votes: unveiling the power of fiscal strategies in local elections and the fate of prudent mayors Abstract: This research examines how mayors’ fiscal decisions affect their likelihood of re-election, with a particular focus on their use of political business cycle tactics during local elections. The theory suggests that there are some incentives for incumbents to manipulate fiscal policy at the local level. The study examines the budgets of 2475 local government units in Poland over 15 years, covering three full local election cycles, using a panel data logit model to assess the influence of their fiscal activity on re-election outcomes. The results show that increasing deficits or investments in election years can significantly improve the re-election prospects of mayors, with a stronger effect for investments. However, investment is less susceptible to short-term changes and deficits are easier to influence. Increasing the deficit raises the likelihood of re-election by about 80% (odds ratios), while running large budget surpluses through reduced spending can effectively eliminate the chances of re-election. Furthermore, increasing debt has no significant effect on re-election chances. The research also examines which categories of local government are most likely to exhibit incumbency behaviour consistent with political business cycle theory. The overall analysis highlights the complex relationship between fiscal policy choices and electoral victory in local government. It provides insights into political strategies and their consequences for political accountability and fiscal responsibility. The research findings suggest the need for additional checks and balances, such as deficit ceilings, to counteract politically motivated fiscal mismanagement and underline the importance of fiscal responsibility in local governance. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 57-75 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2454275 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2454275 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:57-75 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2571545_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Lena Krautscheid Author-X-Name-First: Lena Author-X-Name-Last: Krautscheid Title: Growing innovation: business models for sustainable regional development in Skåne, Sweden Abstract: Being one of the largest industries, the agricultural sector is central to achieving EU and UN sustainability goals. However, the role of sustainable business model innovation (SBMI) in low-tech sectors, such as agriculture, remains empirically underexplored, as existing research has largely focused on high-tech industries and large firms. The paper addresses this gap by examining how SBMI can support sustainable regional development in low-tech contexts, using organic primary production in Skåne, Sweden's southernmost region, as a case study. Drawing on 19 semi-structured interviews, the study applies a conceptual framework to analyse SBMI and its contribution to sustainable regional development. Findings reveal innovations that enhance food production efficiency and sustainability, emphasising collaboration, social capital and diversification as key to resilience and cost reduction. The study identifies a partial mismatch between regional and national strategies, urging policymakers to address producers’ needs and include them in policy dialogues. Additionally, the paper underscores the need for a shift towards environmental regeneration, social sustainability and economic viability in value creation for producers in the region. Future research should explore the social and economic viability of primary producers, who often face innovation constraints, to enhance sustainable regional development and resilience. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 963-974 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2571545 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2571545 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:963-974 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2476633_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alexander T. Petric Author-X-Name-First: Alexander T. Author-X-Name-Last: Petric Author-Name: Ryan F. Gibson Author-X-Name-First: Ryan F. Author-X-Name-Last: Gibson Title: Hidden treasures: estimating intergenerational wealth transfers in rural Canada Abstract: Intergenerational wealth transfers hold potential benefits for community finance in regions facing financial/development challenges due to demographic and economic shifts. We construct a model for estimating wealth transfers based on available Canadian data, with emphasis on data for primary dwelling values. We apply our model across census divisions over 10-, 20-, and 50-year periods and analyse resulting patterns. Results show regional variation in estimated transfer sizes, with urban proximity as a key factor. Findings suggest roles for rural community initiatives (like community foundations) to locally embed wealth over time, particularly given the increasing global mobility of wealth and finance. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 270-286 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2476633 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2476633 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:270-286 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2500850_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Regional Studies, Regional Science Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 508-508 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2500850 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2500850 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:508-508 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2525432_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Mihails Hazans Author-X-Name-First: Mihails Author-X-Name-Last: Hazans Author-Name: Rasmus Bøgh Holmen Author-X-Name-First: Rasmus Bøgh Author-X-Name-Last: Holmen Author-Name: Jānis Upenieks Author-X-Name-First: Jānis Author-X-Name-Last: Upenieks Author-Name: Oksana Žabko Author-X-Name-First: Oksana Author-X-Name-Last: Žabko Title: STEM-oriented secondary education in Latvia: spatial inequalities in access and achievements Abstract: Education scholars and human geographers have extensively studied spatial disparities in access to secondary education, both in developing countries and in advanced economies. However, very few studies have analysed access to specific types of secondary education, particularly programmes oriented toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM-oriented programmes). This paper aims to fill this gap using rich geodata and administrative data on Latvia. An overview of the supply of STEM-related skills in the Nordic-Baltic region suggests that in this regard Latvia performs the worst in terms of both recent university graduates and working-age population in general. More densely populated settlements feature better access to STEM programmes, as well as better exam results in STEM disciplines. Estimates of earnings differentials by access time, between programme types and between two modes of travel suggest that children from wealthier families have better access to STEM programmes. Achievement gaps by degree of urbanisation across the distribution of the exam scores are often larger among schools with STEM programmes than among other schools, suggesting a substantial dispersion in the quality of provision of the STEM programmes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 682-702 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2525432 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2525432 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:682-702 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2518158_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alonso Bustamante Author-X-Name-First: Alonso Author-X-Name-Last: Bustamante Author-Name: Marcela Parada-Contzen Author-X-Name-First: Marcela Author-X-Name-Last: Parada-Contzen Author-Name: Carlos Navarrete Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Author-X-Name-Last: Navarrete Title: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’: mapping electoral divisiveness in Chile from 1989 to 2021 Abstract: Growing distance between antagonistic groups has been increasingly observed in established democracies. This trend is often linked to income inequality and disparities arising from globalisation. Although existing work has explored these dynamics in developed countries, there is a notable gap in comprehensive analyses in developing countries, especially at the subnational level, mostly due to data availability. This paper revisits the relationship between economic conditions and electoral divisiveness in Chile from 1989 to 2021, considering all presidential elections after Pinochet’s regime. Building upon the premise that economic factors, such as inflation and unemployment, influence electoral outcomes, we investigate their role in driving divisiveness during electoral periods. Our analysis reveals that economic and territorial conditions, particularly rurality and unemployment, significantly predict electoral divisiveness in Chile. These findings enrich the global discourse on divisiveness as a cost-effective proxy to understand polarisation, particularly in developing regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 554-573 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2518158 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2518158 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:554-573 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2572469_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Angela Stefania Bergantino Author-X-Name-First: Angela Stefania Author-X-Name-Last: Bergantino Author-Name: Giulio Fusco Author-X-Name-First: Giulio Author-X-Name-Last: Fusco Author-Name: Mario Intini Author-X-Name-First: Mario Author-X-Name-Last: Intini Title: Spatial pricing strategies in Italy’s urban gasoline markets: evidence from medium-sized cities using a spatial econometric framework Abstract: Additional evidence is essential to determine the extent and manner in which spatial variables influence the variation in gasoline prices across cities. In particular, we focus on two major Italian cities: Milan and Naples, which are the second and third largest cities after Rome. By employing a spatial econometric modelling approach, we analyse the impact of competition and territorial variables characterising the urban area within a specified radius around each observed station (i.e., the catchment area). Our findings suggest that competition reduces price-fixing behaviour in these cities, with effects that vary according to city size and territorial factors. Furthermore, the results highlight the need for a greater density of low-cost stations in urban areas. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 816-835 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2572469 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2572469 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:816-835 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2472064_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Xueqing Liu Author-X-Name-First: Xueqing Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Yuting Yang Author-X-Name-First: Yuting Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Ben Derudder Author-X-Name-First: Ben Author-X-Name-Last: Derudder Author-Name: Frank Witlox Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Witlox Title: Emerging synergies in polycentric cities? Exploring the impact of intercity cooperation on labour market integration in the Yangtze River Delta, 2014–2021 Abstract: The creation of regional synergies has received much attention, both as an analytical framework and a normative goal in urban and regional development studies. One of the key mechanisms underlying synergies – cooperation – is particularly relevant for understanding how cities and their labour markets regionally integrate. Yet city cooperation remains poorly understood in conceptual and empirical terms. In addition, it is unclear to what extent intercity cooperation and the effects of the ensuing labour market integration are consistent across cities with different urban structures. Drawing on intercity patent transfer data, we explore the presence of synergies by examining cooperative relations between cities. Using a longitudinal analytical framework, we focus on China’s Yangtze River Delta megacity-region from 2014 to 2021 to explore the impact of intercity cooperation on labour market integration within polycentric urban settings. Our analysis reveals that: (1) intercity cooperation derived from technology linkages has a U-shaped effect on labour market integration and (2) polycentric structures not only contribute to this integration but also moderate the relationship between intercity cooperation and labour market dynamics. We reflect on the broader implications of our empirical findings for regional development strategies and discuss possible avenues for future research. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 162-184 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2472064 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2472064 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:162-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2565318_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Putri Riswani Halim Author-X-Name-First: Putri Riswani Author-X-Name-Last: Halim Author-Name: Arief Anshory Yusuf Author-X-Name-First: Arief Anshory Author-X-Name-Last: Yusuf Author-Name: Andy Sumner Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Sumner Author-Name: Raden Muhamad Purnagunawan Author-X-Name-First: Raden Muhamad Author-X-Name-Last: Purnagunawan Title: Structural transformation and regional inequality differential in Indonesia Abstract: Indonesia is one of the world's largest developing countries, as evidenced by its position as the fourth most populous nation and its status as an archipelago. Each island and province has unique endowment factors, making national-level studies insufficient to fully capture regional disparities. This study addresses this issue by examining the relationship between structural transformation and regional inequality differentials in both regional and provincial contexts. To analyse the effects of structural transformation on regional inequality differentials, the recentred influence function (RIF) regression is employed. The study utilises data from the National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas), covering a span of fifteen years (2004–2019). The analysis is categorised by the level of structural transformation across provinces (developed, developing or underdeveloped) and spatial groupings (Jawa versus non-Jawa regions). The key findings are as follows: first, structural transformation is most pronounced on the island of Jawa, though several other provinces also experience significant changes. Second, the composition effect is a major factor contributing to the increase in regional inequality differentials in both provincial and regional contexts, with labour endowment being crucial in explaining regional disparities. Third, the rise in regional inequality differentials is largely driven by urbanisation and sectoral shifts, which are components of structural transformation. These findings contribute to the literature by addressing the gap in the analysis of regional structural transformation in developing countries. Moreover, this study provides valuable insights for policymakers aiming to mitigate inequality disparities between islands and provinces. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 790-815 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2565318 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2565318 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:790-815 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2486818_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Anne Devlin Author-X-Name-First: Anne Author-X-Name-Last: Devlin Author-Name: Adele Whelan Author-X-Name-First: Adele Author-X-Name-Last: Whelan Author-Name: Seamus McGuinness Author-X-Name-First: Seamus Author-X-Name-Last: McGuinness Author-Name: Paul Redmond Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Redmond Title: COVID-19 employment disruption and area-level deprivation Abstract: There is an ever growing literature on how those living in deprived areas were affected to a greater extent by the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of both the health and the economic impacts. Based on the latter, we investigate the spatial patterns of employment disruption due to COVID-19 and the relationship with area-level deprivation in Ireland. Using a unique administrative dataset, we examine if area-level deprivation affected the proportion in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP), an income replacement payment for those who lost their full-time employment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the length of time on the support. The findings suggest that not only did deprived areas have higher rates of employment disruption but the disruption they faced was more volatile in that it was more responsive to changes in government restrictions. So, while PUP rates were higher in more deprived areas the length of time in receipt of the payment was shorter, suggesting that individuals from more deprived areas had less discretion in deciding when they could safely return to work. Several potential inequalities in the impact of the pandemic with respect to area level deprivation are evident from the results and could inform future pandemic planning and the relevant policy responses. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 386-410 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2486818 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2486818 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:386-410 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2524435_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Paolo Veneri Author-X-Name-First: Paolo Author-X-Name-Last: Veneri Author-Name: Nicola Pontarollo Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Pontarollo Title: Cities for living. Identifying the local conditions driving life satisfaction in European cities Abstract: This paper analyses differences in life satisfaction across European cities. It contributes to the geography of well-being literature by identifying the individual and the contextual factors that explain the observed differences. The empirical analysis relies on the 2019 EU Quality of Life in European Cities’ survey, covering nearly 60,000 individuals across 83 European cities. Such data is combined with city-level indicators on a set of socio-economic, demographic and environmental characteristics of the cities, obtained from various sources. Results show that, after having controlled for individual characteristics, cities with better air quality, higher shares of foreign-born population, better recreational amenities and fewer heatwaves tend to show higher levels of life satisfaction. Cities with higher gross domestic product (GDP) per capita do not show higher life satisfaction, but happier cities have, across all specifications, far more expensive housing, consistent with the spatial equilibrium framework. Finally, a smaller city size may also be associated with higher life satisfaction, although results are less stable. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 617-633 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2524435 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2524435 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:617-633 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2510679_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Lukas Kriesch Author-X-Name-First: Lukas Author-X-Name-Last: Kriesch Author-Name: Milad Abbasiharofteh Author-X-Name-First: Milad Author-X-Name-Last: Abbasiharofteh Author-Name: Sebastian Losacker Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Losacker Title: The geography of digital and green (twin) firms in Germany Abstract: The twin transition, which combines green and digital innovation in economic activities, is increasingly central to policy agendas and is also receiving growing attention in regional research. However, accurately mapping green, digital and twin (both green and digital) economic activities across regions remains challenging, particularly due to data constraints. In this study, we advance this research frontier and present a geographic analysis of digital, green and twin economic activities in Germany, using a web-mined dataset of website texts from 678,381 firms, collected through web scraping in 2023. By processing over 44 million text paragraphs from these websites and applying a cosine similarity filter with green and AI-related terms, we filtered firms that are likely engaged in green, digital and twin activities. Based on this subset, 1437 text paragraphs were manually annotated to fine-tune two transformer models within a SetFit framework, accurately classifying firms as green, digital or both. We aggregate this firm-level data into hexagonal cells to reveal the geographic concentration of the twin transition in Germany. The final map shows a higher number of firms involved in green activities, widely spread across Germany, while AI activities are concentrated in urban centres. We identify 23,819 firms engaged in both green and digital activities, with major hubs like Berlin and Munich leading, and peripheral regions potentially being left behind. Our findings offer critical insights into the geography of the twin transition and highlight the need for policies that address potentially induced spatial inequalities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 513-516 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2510679 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2510679 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:513-516 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2524440_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ana-Maria Opria Author-X-Name-First: Ana-Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Opria Title: Typologies and influencing factors in the absorption of European funding for sustainable rural development Abstract: Sustainable rural development is a key European goal, supported by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) since 1962, which provides EU Member States with funds for financing economic and social development projects in rural communities. Research has shown varying capacities among rural communities to absorb these funds, leading to growing disparities. This paper aims to analyse rural fund absorption and classify rural communities based on their performance during two funding periods (2007–2013 and 2014–2020). The study, focusing on Romania, examines factors influencing different absorption performances using data from the National Rural Development Programme, funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). The study highlights that different mechanisms are at work in different regions and there is a need to build analysis at the local level in order to better understand the performance of territories and, most importantly, what is needed to boost their performance and ensure sustainable development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 596-616 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2524440 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2524440 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:596-616 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2575066_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Anastasia Panori Author-X-Name-First: Anastasia Author-X-Name-Last: Panori Title: Exploring regional vulnerability to the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a European perspective Abstract: As the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) continues to reshape economies, understanding regional vulnerabilities is crucial to ensuring equitable development. This study investigates regional vulnerability to the 4IR across 236 European regions, emphasising the interplay between exposure and adaptability in shaping the impacts of new technologies’ integration, specifically in the labour market. Using a comprehensive framework, we classify EU regions into four categories based on their levels of exposure and adaptability, revealing distinct patterns of vulnerability and opportunity. Regions with high exposure and adaptability, predominantly in Northern and Western Europe, are positioned to leverage the 4IR for economic growth and innovation. Conversely, areas with high exposure but low adaptability, particularly in Eastern and Southern Europe, face heightened risks of job displacement and economic instability. Regions with low exposure and high adaptability present untapped potential, while those with low exposure and low adaptability risk falling behind in the 4IR-driven transition. Our findings built on the notion of vulnerability, through the lens of exposure and adaptive capacity, highlight significant disparities rooted in sectoral structures, workforce composition and innovation capacity, underscoring the need for tailored, region-specific policies not only for adapting to new technological landscapes, but also for leveraging new opportunities for regional development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 867-880 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2575066 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2575066 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:867-880 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2502113_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Kirsten Clarke Author-X-Name-First: Kirsten Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke Title: The impact of remote work on mobilities in the UK Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially increased remote and hybrid working rates, creating a large group of workers whose experiences differ from those in traditional workplace settings. While previous studies have compared remote and non-remote workers in relation to productivity, performance and well-being, less attention has been given to how their mobility patterns differ. Although researchers have suggested that the ability to work remotely affects workers’ mobilities, there remains limited empirical evidence comparing remote and non-remote workers’ mobilities. This paper presents the first study to compare the mobilities of these groups in the UK. It focuses on four types of mobility studied in relation to remote work: counterurbanisation, commuting, multi-local work and immobility. It is the first to integrate analysis of all four mobilities, offering a novel, integrated perspective on remote work and mobility. The paper examines regional differences in these mobilities across the UK, highlighting how workers’ mobility patterns vary between regions.This study draws on data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study and employs bivariate statistical tests and regression analyses. The results show that remote workers are more likely than non-remote workers to move to rural areas, own second homes and commute longer distances. These trends are pronounced in southern English regions. Remote work risks reinforcing existing inequalities between knowledge workers and manual workers and perpetuating traditional associations between mobility and urban areas in the UK. Furthermore, while remote work may generate new economic opportunities, it may also increase demand for accessible rural housing, particularly in regions surrounding London. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 472-487 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2502113 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2502113 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:472-487 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2534358_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Junli Yu Author-X-Name-First: Junli Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Author-Name: Gordon Yuan Author-X-Name-First: Gordon Author-X-Name-Last: Yuan Author-Name: Guifeng Shi Author-X-Name-First: Guifeng Author-X-Name-Last: Shi Title: Government official site visits and urban innovation: an empirical analysis from China Abstract: Urban innovation is essential for advancing economic growth, competitiveness and sustainability in cities. Government engagement – especially through official site visits – acts as a key catalyst by driving targeted policy interventions and reallocating resources. Despite its promise, the effect of official site visits on urban innovation remains underexplored, and the roles of mediating and moderating factors are not fully understood. This study evaluates the impact of official site visits on urban innovation in China. Using a comprehensive panel dataset of Chinese enterprises from 2011 to 2017 – which includes official visit records, innovation indicators, technology education expenditure, firm-level innovation inputs and outputs, and marketisation levels – we apply fixed-effects regression models augmented by instrumental variable techniques and propensity score matching to address endogeneity and selection bias. We apply a recursive path analysis to reveal how fiscal allocations to science and education mediate the effect of official site visits on urban innovation. Our moderation analysis reveals that these effects are stronger in regions with higher marketisation and greater government efficiency. Moreover, our heterogeneity analyses indicate that visits directed at innovative enterprises and conducted by higher-level officials produce even stronger innovation outcomes. This research provides novel empirical evidence on government-led innovation initiatives and offers practical policy recommendations to better align government support with enterprise innovation needs. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 656-681 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2534358 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2534358 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:656-681 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2572482_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ján Výbošťok Author-X-Name-First: Ján Author-X-Name-Last: Výbošťok Author-Name: Dušan Paur Author-X-Name-First: Dušan Author-X-Name-Last: Paur Title: Housing in Slovakia: COVID-19 pandemics impacts on regions, affordability and residential development Abstract: Housing affordability has become a critical challenge in Europe, particularly in post-socialist contexts with ownership-oriented tenure systems and weak rental sectors. Housing affordability in Slovakia ranks among the least affordable housing markets in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, and it has worsened sharply following the COVID-19 pandemic, further intensifying pressures through rapid price growth and rising borrowing costs. This study examines district-level affordability dynamics from 2012 to 2023, focusing on its spatial variation, determinants and pandemic-related impacts. A housing affordability index (HAI) was calculated using regional property prices and income data, incorporating credit conditions and regulatory thresholds. Ordinary least squares (OLS) and geographically weighted regression (GWR) models were employed to identify key socio-economic and housing-market determinants. Results show that urban cores and their suburbs experienced the largest post-COVID affordability declines, while peripheral eastern and southern districts remained relatively stable. On average, affordability dropped by 71 HAI points nationwide, highlighting the heightened vulnerability of Slovakia’s rental sector. Regression analyses reveal that construction intensity, migration and educational attainment are negatively associated with affordability, while vacant housing stock improves it. The GWR model highlights substantial spatial heterogeneity, with metropolitan hinterlands most affected. The findings demonstrate that post-COVID shocks have amplified existing inequalities in housing markets and that supply-side responses alone have not improved affordability. The study concludes that market-led housing systems are insufficient to deliver affordability and calls for geographically differentiated policies that expand regulated rental housing, promote targeted urban densification and integrate housing with labour market strategies to mitigate pandemic-driven measures. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 881-895 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2572482 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2572482 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:881-895 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2456489_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Mario Biggeri Author-X-Name-First: Mario Author-X-Name-Last: Biggeri Author-Name: Adam Francescutto Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Francescutto Author-Name: Lucia Ferrone Author-X-Name-First: Lucia Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrone Author-Name: Andrea Ferrannini Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrannini Title: Analysing transitions towards sustainability and human development in European regions Abstract: Rising social inequalities, environmental degradation and climate change are increasingly acknowledged as major threats to the long-term prosperity of modern economies. Significant attention has thus been placed on sustainability transitions in European policymaking to drive change towards a more inclusive and environmentally sustainable socio-economic system. Alongside these policy initiatives and frameworks, there has also been a rise in European tools for monitoring and measuring progress in different domains. The objective of this paper is to analyse the sustainability transition at the regional level in Europe based on a theoretical framework which links the main pillars of the sustainable development paradigm (in line with the 2030 agenda) with those of the human development paradigm. Using a dataset constructed at the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS)2 level for 2010–2019, the Sustainable Development and Human Development Index (SDHD) is developed and a spatial and econometric analysis is applied to identify spatio-temporal trends, clustering and the main determinants and spatial spillovers among the index dimensions. This contributes to the relative gap in studies covering multiple domains of sustainability across all European regions. Results highlight strong regional inequalities in both the SDHD and four domains across Europe, with a noticeable core–periphery divide. There is evidence of convergence across the EU-27, with Eastern European regions scoring the lowest but improving the most. From a spatial fixed-effects regression model, we find significant spatial dependence among neighbouring regions and that gender gaps in the labour market, teenage fertility rates and low educational attainment are significant negative determinants of SDHD. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 124-148 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2456489 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2456489 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:124-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2472058_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Nicola Camatti Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Camatti Author-Name: Giacomo di Tollo Author-X-Name-First: Giacomo Author-X-Name-Last: di Tollo Author-Name: Francesco Gastaldi Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Gastaldi Author-Name: Federico Camerin Author-X-Name-First: Federico Author-X-Name-Last: Camerin Title: Cultural heritage reuse applying fuzzy expert knowledge and machine learning: Venice’s fortresses case study Abstract: This paper presents a comparative analysis of two quantitative models for evaluating the reuse of cultural heritage, using fortified sites in a monofunctional city dedicated to cultural tourism, such as Venice, as a case study. The models explore three distinct reuse scenarios, assessing the appropriateness of each through a combination of fuzzy expert systems (FESs) and self-organising maps (SOMs). An FES acts as an expert-driven approach that formalises problem-solving based on external knowledge, while SOMs provide a data-driven perspective, autonomously processing and aggregating data without relying on external input or predefined assumptions. This innovative methodology facilitates the identification of new functional uses for cultural heritage by leveraging data sources related to the intrinsic structural characteristics of the assets, their territorial context and insights from external experts, alongside pre-established reuse scenarios that guide the analysis. In territories where public policies are fragmented and lack integration, this research provides a critical contribution by addressing the unbalanced distribution of functions across territories. The insights generated from this study offer practical guidance for stakeholders involved in managing cultural heritage, supporting enhanced institutional frameworks that can significantly boost the local economic complexity. This analysis showcases the potential of combining FESs and SOMs as a methodological advancement in the field of cultural heritage research. By illustrating how these tools can be applied together to address broader research challenges, the study contributes to the development of new procedures that can be adapted for use in similar contexts. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 225-251 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2472058 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2472058 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:225-251 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2575064_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Canfei He Author-X-Name-First: Canfei Author-X-Name-Last: He Author-Name: Hantian Sheng Author-X-Name-First: Hantian Author-X-Name-Last: Sheng Title: Who knows the future? Towards an expectation-oriented regional industrial evolution Abstract: Evolutionary economic geography has a strong explanatory power for how regional industries emerge and is therefore particularly important in today’s context of global industrial competition. In recent years, economic geographers have proposed that the role of expectations in industrial evolution should be given as much weight as historical routines. Following this vein, we formulate a conceptual framework and propose that historical experience and expectations jointly contribute to the formation of regional conventions and industrial legitimation. We also attempt to figure out the roles of regional endowments, actor collaboration and market construction in conditioning an expectation-oriented industrial evolution. Our work contributes to the perspective transformation of evolutionary economic geography as well as provides future research directions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 852-866 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2575064 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2575064 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:852-866 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2477267_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Pin-Te Lin Author-X-Name-First: Pin-Te Author-X-Name-Last: Lin Title: The local nature of housing markets: new evidence Abstract: This research examines whether much of the variation in house price changes is mainly driven by local or national factors. Employing a novel data containing both capital appreciation and income component in the US metropolitan statistical areas, results show that macroeconomic factors, absorbed by time fixed effects, account for 59% of the variation in capital gains and 4% of the variation in rental yields. Overall, this empirical study is an important complement to the prior literature assuming that the nature of housing markets is primarily local, particularly evidenced in the cross-sectional income returns. The results provide implications for balanced national development and portfolio diversification strategy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 456-471 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2477267 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2477267 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:456-471 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2542444_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Jianhua Zhu Author-X-Name-First: Jianhua Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu Author-Name: Changjian Shi Author-X-Name-First: Changjian Author-X-Name-Last: Shi Author-Name: Rebecca Kechen Dong Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Kechen Author-X-Name-Last: Dong Title: Digital governance and natural resource efficiency: evidence from China Abstract: Advances in digital governance significantly enhance natural resource efficiency (NRE), supporting regional sustainable development. This study adopts the implementation of digital governance construction (DGC) policies as a quasi-natural experiment by analysing longitudinal data from 281 Chinese cities (2010–2021) using robust methodologies, including the synthetic control method, difference-in-differences (DID) and propensity score matching DID. Findings reveal that DGC policies improve NRE through regional technological innovation and government support, moderated by urban ecological resilience. Regional heterogeneity is evident across digitisation, industrial structure, resource endowment, transparency and market access. Tailored strategies to regional characteristics, leveraging these dimensions can optimise DGC policies for sustainable urban development and ecological welfare. This study contributes to regional studies and environmental management literature by innovatively framing digital governance as a mechanism to improve NRE and proposing a dynamic heterogeneity analysis framework that advances the understanding of regional policy impacts in the digital era. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 721-739 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2542444 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2542444 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:721-739 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2446168_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Chenglong Wang Author-X-Name-First: Chenglong Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Jianfa Shen Author-X-Name-First: Jianfa Author-X-Name-Last: Shen Author-Name: Hengyu Gu Author-X-Name-First: Hengyu Author-X-Name-Last: Gu Author-Name: Dehao Shi Author-X-Name-First: Dehao Author-X-Name-Last: Shi Title: Visualising urbanisation and semi-urbanisation of rural migrants in China: a perspective from migration network and destination preference Abstract: Aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, which emphasise creating inclusive and sustainable human settlements, China launched the New-Type Urbanisation plan to promote equitable urban development. This study seeks to deepen understanding of urbanisation and inform policy interventions by visualising the geographical characteristics of urbanisation and semi-urbanisation among rural migrants in China. Using social network analysis (SNA) and survey data from 82,762 rural migrants across 287 cities, we compare the spatial migration patterns of urbanised and semi-urbanised groups. Our findings highlight distinct geographical patterns: urbanisation is concentrated in economically advanced regions such as the Jing-Jin-Ji, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, while semi-urbanisation is more dispersed, driven by short-range migration flows. These insights underscore the necessity for targeted policy interventions to promote inclusivity and support hukou reform. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2024.2446168 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2024.2446168 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2486824_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Wei Chen Author-X-Name-First: Wei Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Xiquan Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Xiquan Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Author-Name: Nyuying Wang Author-X-Name-First: Nyuying Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Haipeng Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Haipeng Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Mapping the global FDI landscape: network linkages and regional disparities Abstract: Foreign direct investment (FDI) serves as a crucial mechanism through which multinational enterprises conduct overseas operations, integrating economies into global value chains and production networks while shaping the global economic landscape. However, the intricate patterns and topology of the global FDI network have yet to be illustrated in a refined manner. This paper addresses this gap by utilising the Coordinated Direct Investment Survey database to construct a comprehensive global FDI flow matrix among countries. The global FDI landscape is visualised through the integration of maps and cartograms. The findings reveal a distinctly hierarchical global FDI network characterised by a core–periphery structure both within and across continents. North America, Europe and Asia emerge as the core regions, marked by larger FDI scales and denser linkages, while South America, Oceania and Africa remain on the periphery with relatively limited FDI activity. Both outward FDI (OFDI) and inward FDI (IFDI) exhibit similar patterns, primarily concentrated in North America, Western Europe and East Asia. Notably, the spatial polarisation effect of OFDI is more pronounced than that of IFDI. The United States, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and China consistently rank among the top six in both OFDI and IFDI. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 381-385 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2486824 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2486824 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:381-385 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2574350_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Pinar Dörder Author-X-Name-First: Pinar Author-X-Name-Last: Dörder Title: A regional approach to planning trade-offs in mid-sized towns: the case of Frankfurt Rhine-Main Abstract: This study explores the planning trade-offs generated by the conflicting infill development and green space preservation objectives in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main (FRM) region through a social-ecological systems (SES) perspective. The main research question is: How can the conflict between infill development and green space preservation objectives in the growing mid-sized towns be resolved by planning instruments? To answer this question, the analysis combines spatial assessment of settlement development and green space parameters in selected towns with an evaluation of institutional conditions. Findings show that limited capacities at administrations, bureaucratic hurdles and policy-practice divides are the main systemic impediments weakening institutional conditions to effectively handle trade-offs. A city-wide decision-making instrument is proposed to be coordinated regionally, which systematically evaluates spatial reserves either for infill development (e.g., residential development at the site of an underused parking lot with close proximity to everyday utilities) or for green space preservation (e.g., green space protection to ensure connectivity for fresh air corridors). Since housing and labour market dynamics, commuting, and regionally-significant green spaces function across municipal borders, the studied trade-offs are inherently regional. Regional-level institutions should contribute through initiating and coordinating this at the stage of preparatory land-use planning. Coordinating decisions at the regional-scale with the proposed SES-based tool sustains long-term regional attractiveness and competitiveness by avoiding and managing externalities such as congestion, urban overheating and ecological fragmentation. This instrument would require the SES approach to be operationalised at the regional-level administration, but can in turn ensure a systemic, unbiased and transparent practice for land-use decisions at the local level. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 836-851 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2574350 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2574350 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:836-851 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2472069_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Cameron Ward Author-X-Name-First: Cameron Author-X-Name-Last: Ward Author-Name: Alexander Singleton Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Singleton Author-Name: Caitlin Robinson Author-X-Name-First: Caitlin Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson Author-Name: Francisco Rowe Author-X-Name-First: Francisco Author-X-Name-Last: Rowe Title: Tracking spatio-temporal energy vulnerability: A composite indicator for England and Wales Abstract: Energy vulnerability concerns a household that is unable to access a socially and materially necessitated level of energy service. The government’s fuel poverty metric which concerns fuel affordability and energy efficiency does not capture the broader range of factors that drive energy vulnerability within households. Research has addressed this gap by creating spatial composite indicators using a greater array of known drivers. However, the studies that observe the temporality of energy vulnerability are in short supply. This prevents the monitoring of progress and the identification of areas with entrenched energy vulnerability. A temporal consideration is critical as the associated household physical and mental health implications from energy vulnerability are known to compound over time. This study addresses the gap by constructing the first spatial energy vulnerability composite indicator for England and Wales that is temporally comparable. Utilising dwelling and socio-economic measures, we calculate energy vulnerability risk in small areas for both 2011 and 2021. The findings reveal substantial geographic variation in energy vulnerability, with a total of 5,530 small areas identified to be in entrenched energy vulnerability across the analysis period. We strongly advocate for targeted policies to be situated within both areas of continued and increasing energy vulnerability to raise living standards. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 319-337 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2472069 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2472069 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:319-337 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2541652_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Yousef Abdeljawad Author-X-Name-First: Yousef Author-X-Name-Last: Abdeljawad Author-Name: Ilan Noy Author-X-Name-First: Ilan Author-X-Name-Last: Noy Author-Name: Yu-Wei Luke Chu Author-X-Name-First: Yu-Wei Author-X-Name-Last: Luke Chu Title: Individuals’ emigration from Christchurch city after the 2010–2011 earthquakes Abstract: We investigate the likelihood of individuals emigrating (internally over short distances, internally over long distances and internationally) from Christchurch following the 2010–2011 earthquakes that hit the city. We consider their socio-economic and demographic characteristics to see how these are associated with their migration decisions. To achieve this, we employed a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach and estimated a multinomial logistic regression model using individual-level income data from the Inland Revenue Department and demographic data from the Census. Our findings indicate that individuals in Christchurch were more likely to emigrate internally over short distances (only in the short-term) and internally over long distances (both in the short- and long-term) following the earthquakes. No significant consequence of the earthquakes on the probability of emigrating internationally was detected. Furthermore, we provide evidence that socio-economic characteristics partly shape the emigration decisions of affected individuals. Different emigration patterns are associated with variations in socio-economic characteristics, including age, ethnicity, education and employment sectors, as well as differences in migration responses of individuals born overseas and in New Zealand. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 703-720 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2541652 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2541652 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:703-720 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2476627_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Synne Bråten Author-X-Name-First: Synne Author-X-Name-Last: Bråten Author-Name: Gunhild Wedum Author-X-Name-First: Gunhild Author-X-Name-Last: Wedum Author-Name: Trond Nilsen Author-X-Name-First: Trond Author-X-Name-Last: Nilsen Title: Initiatives and barriers for green transition in peripheral regions: path tracing and agentic orientations in the bioeconomy of Norway Abstract: Environmental degradation and climate change permeate our society and have unforeseen regional impacts. The literature on green transitions highlights preexisting structures that hinder or facilitate change and, more recently, micro-level actions in creating change. However, little is known about peripheral regions struggling to overcome systemic decline and ‘left-behindness’ in this context. In this paper, we adopt the approach of path tracing following a bioeconomy initiative aiming for circularity. We create a timeline of critical junctures to demonstrate the dialectic relationship between agency and structures influencing the prevailing change. Our findings highlight that local actors in the periphery are embedded in temporal and spatial relations (top-down causation), and that these processes hinder local agency (bottom-up causation), due to critical events that resonate with international, national and regional (i.e., multi-level) macro-political and economic conditions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 287-305 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2476627 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2476627 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:287-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2489518_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Maurizio Malpede Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio Author-X-Name-Last: Malpede Author-Name: Marco Percoco Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Percoco Title: Desertification, crop yield and economic development: a disaggregated analysis Abstract: This study uses a global grid-level dataset, integrating gross domestic product (GDP) per capita with crop yield and climate variables to examine the economic impact of climate-induced desertification. We use the aridity index (AI) to measure desertification and find that annual variations of soil aridity have a more significant economic impact than precipitation and temperature when taken alone, with Africa experiencing the most significant effect. We identify the reduced agricultural yield as a potential channel behind the desertification-economic growth nexus. Finally, projections suggest that by 2040, desertification could reduce GDP per capita in sub-Saharan Africa by up to 10%. These findings underscore the need for policies to mitigate the economic impacts of climate-induced desertification in vulnerable regions, contributing to the broader understanding of how climatic conditions affect economic development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 411-432 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2489518 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2489518 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:411-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2590896_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Akihiro Otsuka Author-X-Name-First: Akihiro Author-X-Name-Last: Otsuka Title: A three-layer model of borrowed size: empirical insights from Japan Abstract: This study revisits the concept of borrowed size to explain regional growth beyond that of traditional agglomeration economies. Although scale advantages are typically linked to density, many smaller regions increasingly benefit from relational and institutional ties with metropolitan areas. We propose a three-layer framework comprising scale-related externalities, mediating network connectivity, and institutional and relational foundations. Using data from Japanese prefectures, we demonstrate how improved accessibility, industrial specialisation and national spatial planning enable the diffusion of agglomeration benefits beyond urban cores. Drawing on the Japanese context – characterised by a highly centralised governance structure, pronounced metropolitan concentration and rapid population ageing – we illustrate how national spatial strategy and fiscal transfer mechanisms interact with local industrial specialisations to sustain borrowed-size effects in peripheral regions. These patterns suggest that spatial externalities can operate through non-physical channels, challenging the agglomeration–dispersion dichotomy. Borrowed size is reframed as an active, institutionally mediated process rather than a passive spillover effect, and underscores the role of governance and social capital in shaping inclusive development. Thus, the Japanese case offers transferable insights to other countries undergoing demographic transitions and seeking to balance metropolitan dynamism with regional equity. These findings have practical implications for regional policy in decentralised ageing economies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 975-995 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2590896 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2590896 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:975-995 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2563524_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Miriam Hug Author-X-Name-First: Miriam Author-X-Name-Last: Hug Author-Name: Irmi Seidl Author-X-Name-First: Irmi Author-X-Name-Last: Seidl Author-Name: Heike Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Heike Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Title: Challenge-oriented regional innovation systems (CORIS): sustainability transformations in the timber sector Abstract: Given ecological and economic challenges in natural resource-based industries, the timber sector is usually not perceived as particularly innovative or transformative. However, in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg, this industry has played a key role in socio-economic transformation since the 1960s when so-called Baukünstler (building artists) started to revolutionise the local architectural scene with their timber houses. They induced changes which led to the integration of sustainability challenges in the regional innovation system (RIS) of the timber sector. In contrast, the timber sector of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland represents a case of latecomer when it comes to transformative changes. By drawing on the concept of challenge-oriented regional innovation systems (CORISs) and comparing the case of Vorarlberg with that of Bern, we study RIS reconfiguration, i.e., how RISs integrate sustainability challenges and eventually become a CORIS. The comparison is insightful for identifying RIS elements (actors, networks and institutions) which enhance challenge orientation. Moreover, it indicates that individual change agents with extra-regional connections and networking capabilities are key bearers of system-level change agency. Our insights contribute to understanding transformation processes at a systemic level and illustrate how natural resource-based industries can show the way to sustainable futures. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 772-789 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2563524 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2563524 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:772-789 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2462082_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Anna Rita Dipierro Author-X-Name-First: Anna Rita Author-X-Name-Last: Dipierro Author-Name: Pierluigi Toma Author-X-Name-First: Pierluigi Author-X-Name-Last: Toma Title: Corruption and its relatives: facing the relationship between economic health and quality of government Abstract: The prevailing orientation in the existing literature on corruption is on its consequences for the socioeconomic dimensions, on a national basis. Using a promising proxy for quality of government (QoG) with substantial potential for further research, we examine the relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and QoG across 198 European regions from 2009–2022. We enrich the relatively sparse but relevant body of literature on this issue by testing and demonstrating that the reverse causality in this linkage should not be overlooked. We exploit the power of instrumental modelling in a panel data setting, allowing for the inclusion of a new perspective that fits with the place-based rationale of recent European policies. Beyond being of interest to researchers, the results are significant for policymakers and society as a whole. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 149-161 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2462082 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2462082 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:149-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2514503_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Francesco Molica Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Molica Author-Name: Anabela Marques Santos Author-X-Name-First: Anabela Marques Author-X-Name-Last: Santos Title: Mapping uncharted territory: research gaps in EU cohesion policy from a policy-making perspective Abstract: EU cohesion policy, the world’s largest regional development policy, aims to reduce territorial disparities and promote competitiveness across Europe’s regions. The policy has been subject to intense political debate and scholarly interest. However, a disconnect persists between academic research and policy discussions around cohesion policy funds. Academic research has yet to investigate aspects that are increasingly important in terms of policy development and implementation and have grown to become primary concerns for policy-makers and practitioners alike. The paper offers a framework aimed at best aligning the future direction of scholarly work with the discussion around cohesion funds in policy-making arenas. It identifies and explores four areas relevant for policy-making and implementation where additional empirical research is needed: (1) non-economic added values of cohesion policy, referring, amongst other things, to its insufficiently studied influence on countries' institutional quality, governance structures and domestic reforms; (2) evolving rationales, as the actual implications of the policy’s shift toward competitiveness, its expanding thematic scope, and increasing use for crisis-mitigation have not been adequately investigated to date; (3) efficiency challenges, including persistent issues related to funding absorption, administrative capacity and compliance, which require greater empirical scrutiny; and (4) policy design, as there is limited research examining how governance models, funding mechanisms and operational tools influence the effectiveness of the policy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 517-531 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2514503 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2514503 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:517-531 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2578943_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Johanna Fellbrich Author-X-Name-First: Johanna Author-X-Name-Last: Fellbrich Title: Regional development implications of the Belt and Road Initiative – a case study of Darwin Abstract: China's launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 reinvigorated debates on infrastructure-led development and reshaped core–periphery relations through large-scale port investments. A prominent case is the 99-year lease of Darwin Port in Australia's Northern Territory to the Chinese company Landbridge Group in 2015, which sparked both development hopes and geopolitical controversy. While subnational actors play a central role in mediating external investment – especially in port infrastructure – their agency in host countries remains underexplored in the literature on BRI and global production networks (GPNs). This study addresses this gap by combining the strategic coupling framework with agenda-setting theory to analyse how regional actors in Darwin attempted to align local assets with Landbridge's commercial strategy under BRI-linked investment. Based on empirical fieldwork, the study finds that while Darwin possessed distinctive, immobile assets and institutional ambition, the lease structure and broader geopolitical tensions constrained long-term developmental gains. Initial hopes to catalyse economic diversification, population growth and regional connectivity were overridden by multi-scalar power asymmetries and the securitisation of Chinese infrastructure capital. The result was not strategic but structural coupling – characterised by limited embeddedness, abandoned projects and reinforced dependency. The paper contributes to debates on infrastructure-led development by showing that strategic coupling is not guaranteed by asset endowments alone but is a contingent, negotiated process shaped by scalar coherence, institutional capacity and geopolitical alignment. In doing so, it adds nuance to GPN theory by foregrounding host-region agency and the geopolitical context in shaping development outcomes in peripheral settings. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 895-908 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2578943 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2578943 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:895-908 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2464669_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Agustin Leon-Moreta Author-X-Name-First: Agustin Author-X-Name-Last: Leon-Moreta Author-Name: Omowonuola Fayemiro Author-X-Name-First: Omowonuola Author-X-Name-Last: Fayemiro Author-Name: Alicia Esquivel Author-X-Name-First: Alicia Author-X-Name-Last: Esquivel Title: Cities’ investment in road infrastructure systems across regions Abstract: Infrastructure investment has become a recent policy priority across cities and regions. The present research analyses specific institutional mechanisms that promote cities’ investment in infrastructure systems. It explores how city governments adapt their infrastructure investment to state and local contexts. Using data at the municipal level, we examine trends in city-governmental investment toward road infrastructure across 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017. Specifically, we present detailed data on impact fee authority for cities. The baseline finding is that local investment in road infrastructure varies widely in urban regions. Additional findings are that impact fee authority and fiscal transfers are statistically associated with cities’ investment in road infrastructure systems. Further, we present a series of alternative tests to explore the potential sensitivity of results. The study connects literature on intergovernmental mechanisms that support local government investments in urban infrastructure systems. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 185-204 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2464669 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2464669 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:185-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2594312_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Julia Zscherneck Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Zscherneck Author-Name: Julia Binder Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Binder Author-Name: Tobias Mettenberger Author-X-Name-First: Tobias Author-X-Name-Last: Mettenberger Title: Rural network assemblages – disentangling egocentric networks of digital pioneers in peripheral German regions Abstract: Digital solutions are seen as promising ways of addressing current challenges in rural regions. Individual or group key actors accessing resources foster these developments through networks. In light of regional clustering and agglomeration effects on the one hand and increased virtual mobility on the other hand, assumptions about the spatiality of such networks are highly controversial. Our paper takes this as a point of departure, asking how spatiality is constructed in the networks of so-called ‘digital pioneers’ (DPs). The sampling process took place in two German rural regions with different preconditions for digital technology adoption, where we conducted egocentric network analysis and qualitative interviews. Employing the assemblage perspective, we analysed networks of 30 individuals in terms of the analytical categories of territoriality, stability and connectivity. Our findings distinguish between three important roles of network contacts: (1) multipliers in social networking, (2) users of the DP’s products and services, as well as (3) close family members that are important in professional contexts. Although DPs are often deeply embedded in and feel attached to their region, networks vary significantly in their territorial radius, also including highly functional problem-solving contacts to distant places. Consequently, our evidence challenges static territorial models of innovation processes, advocating for processual and multidimensional perspectives that consider social networks and individual agency. Likewise, our study complements current research on rural governance by shifting the focus from key institutions and formal networks to less formally integrated actors and problem-solving networks. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 996-1012 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2594312 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2594312 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:996-1012 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2476629_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Keith Waters Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Waters Author-Name: Terry Clower Author-X-Name-First: Terry Author-X-Name-Last: Clower Title: Examining the donut hole: pandemic housing resilience in three Mid-Atlantic (US) core metro areas Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic brought an immediate shift to work-from-home, creating differential impacts on regional economies depending on their industrial structure. The increase in work-from-home led planners, researchers and others to hypothesise dramatic changes in housing demand and preferences. This paper examines changes in home sales in the core metro areas of three economically different Mid-Atlantic cities: Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC; and Philadelphia, PA. We use data from the region’s multiple listing service (MLS), Bright MLS, to examine price changes as an indicator of consumer preferences. Descriptive statistics on closed sales prices reveal general price stability related to several key housing characteristics (home type, number of bedrooms, distance to the city centre and location in the metro area) after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent rise in work-from-home. Regression results generally confirm the donut-effect of prices for each of the core metro areas, however, housing market resilience is the most notable overall result. Also notable is that homes with more bedrooms, thought to possibly be used for home offices, have mixed results. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 306-318 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2476629 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2476629 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:306-318 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2475115_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: David Hearne Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Hearne Author-Name: David Bailey Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Bailey Title: Regional prices reconsidered Abstract: Purchasing power parities are widely used in cross-country international comparisons of macroeconomic aggregates. Despite their importance, there is much less information about how prices differ across regions within countries. This paper contributes to a growing body of literature seeking to fill this gap by combining consumer price index (CPI) microdata and a variety of other data sources to develop more detailed price measures than has hitherto been possible. Using these, the paper then estimates relative price levels for nomenclature of territorial units of statistics (NUTS)-2 UK sub-regions using a random coefficient regression model. The results provide some empirical evidence against which to assess theoretical models in the literature. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 338-356 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2475115 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2475115 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:338-356 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2475113_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Andrea Vaccaro Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Vaccaro Author-Name: Carlotta Montorsi Author-X-Name-First: Carlotta Author-X-Name-Last: Montorsi Author-Name: Chiara Gigliarano Author-X-Name-First: Chiara Author-X-Name-Last: Gigliarano Title: Quality of government for environmental wellbeing? Subnational evidence from European regions Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between quality of government and environmental wellbeing in European regions at the NUTS-2 level. First, we find that subnational environmental data are spatially interdependent. Then, we construct a set of composite indicators of environmental wellbeing via Bayesian spatial factor analysis. Finally, by using these composite indicators in spatial regression analysis, we show that institutional quality is a key determinant of environmental wellbeing. We also find that the institutions-environment nexus varies across dimensions of environmental wellbeing – institutions matter especially for the quality of air and soil. Policymakers should be aware that environmental degradation can be tackled by building more effective and well-functioning regional public institutions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 357-380 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2475113 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2475113 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:357-380 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2453573_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Kaihuang Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Kaihuang Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Zehong Wang Author-X-Name-First: Zehong Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Qingsheng Yang Author-X-Name-First: Qingsheng Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Yuxin Wang Author-X-Name-First: Yuxin Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: The changing role between public and private R&D investments in regional innovation: threshold analysis from Guangdong, China Abstract: The main contribution of our study is to build a bridge to the study of research and development (R&D) inputs in regional innovation systems and at the same time to provide an important reference case for regional innovation policy in transition countries. Our study finds that: (1) The positive effects of both public and private inputs rely on a rich local knowledge base and strong innovation networks. (2) Public inputs effectively contribute to the increase of private inputs, especially for regions in the early stages of a regional innovation system. (3) The relationship between public and private inputs is non-linear, and when public inputs continue to increase beyond a certain point, it will in varying degrees weaken the positive effect of private sector inputs. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 76-94 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2453573 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2453573 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:76-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2472065_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Francesco Foglia Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Foglia Author-Name: Francesco Molica Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Molica Author-Name: Anabela M. Santos Author-X-Name-First: Anabela M. Author-X-Name-Last: Santos Title: Exploring the drivers of irregular spending in the EU cohesion policy Abstract: The regularity and legality of EU spending, i.e., the conformity of the expenditures incurred with the applicable legislation, are important measures of its efficiency. They are also key pre-conditions for the effectiveness of EU funds. The present paper aims at understanding the main determinants of irregular spending (errors) in EU cohesion policy funding: this is a highly important, yet understudied topic, especially given that cohesion policy is the area of the EU budget with the highest level of irregularities. Using time series data and a fractional regression analysis model, the study provides evidence that the specific governance and structure of cohesion policy programmes can explain the intensity of irregular spending. Overall, the analysis finds that the more complex the programmes (e.g., in terms of number of priorities, multi-fund focus), the higher the risk of irregularities and the more difficult is for programme authorities to detect them. The paper also shows the relevant role of specific aspects of the implementation, such as the size and number of projects, in influencing the regularity of expenditures. The results suggest that greater simplification, thematic concentration and harmonisation of the funds’ rules could lead to fewer irregularities and improve the effectiveness of control systems in future programming periods. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 252-269 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2472065 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2472065 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:252-269 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2459148_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Martin Henning Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Henning Author-Name: Rikard Eriksson Author-X-Name-First: Rikard Author-X-Name-Last: Eriksson Author-Name: Petrus Garefelt Author-X-Name-First: Petrus Author-X-Name-Last: Garefelt Author-Name: Hanna Martin Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Author-Name: Zoltán Elekes Author-X-Name-First: Zoltán Author-X-Name-Last: Elekes Title: Job relatedness, local skill coherence and economic performance: a job postings approach Abstract: The local presence and composition of skills is commonly thought to have enormous implications for economic development. Yet, skills and the relations between them are notoriously difficult to pinpoint and measure. We develop a method that uses information available in Swedish job postings to measure the skill-relatedness of jobs and the skill-coherence of local economies. Our skill-relatedness measure can be assumed to be exogenous to local economic outcomes such as wages, productivity and labour mobility. We corroborate some previous research findings and show that workers tend to switch between related jobs and that local economies are on average skill-coherent. However, less coherent local economies are associated with higher average wages and productivity. Local economies where workers switch between related jobs though enjoy higher average wages. In all, this points to the benefit of local labour market clusters within more diverse regions. We conclude that job postings provide a wealth of information on the skill-foundations of local development. A job-level skill-relatedness matrix accompanies the paper. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 95-122 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2459148 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2459148 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:95-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2501317_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Zoé Perko Author-X-Name-First: Zoé Author-X-Name-Last: Perko Title: Intraregional mobility and free movement in Mercosur: an interplay between state-led implementation and subnational migrant practices Abstract: This article examines the facilitation of internal mobility as a pillar of regional integration, focusing on the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). Drawing on New and Comparative Regionalism theories, it investigates how bottom-up dynamics at the subnational level interact with supranational objectives of regional free movement in Mercosur. Through document analysis and 26 stakeholder interviews with national and regional institutions, as well as civil society organisations, it reveals challenges in the state-led implementation of the Mercosur free movement framework, including the absence of a right of entry in the agreements, the ineffective implementation of certain agreements, disagreements between member states impeding efforts to strengthen the existing framework and, lastly, discriminatory practices and arbitrary rejections at internal borders. Nevertheless, some of these limitations are addressed and partially mitigated by bottom-up migrant practices and traditional mobility in border regions. Cross-border interactions and mobility in subnational border regions thus represent key dimensions of regional free movement and integration. Thereby, the article underscores the importance of a universal definition of regional free movement that integrates historical particularities and mobility dynamics beyond the European conceptualisation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 488-507 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2501317 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2501317 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:488-507 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2578959_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: H. Killion Mokwete Author-X-Name-First: H. Killion Author-X-Name-Last: Mokwete Title: Aguda/Afro-Brazilian architectural heritage in the bight of Benin Abstract: It is frequently impossible to draw a direct connection between the horrifying eighteenth-century transatlantic slave trade, in which millions of Africans were forcefully transported and sold into slavery in Latin America, and architecture or place-making, particularly when considering African contexts. However, the contribution to the socio-economic development and creation of a new building style known as Aguda, or Afro-Brazilian architecture, across the Bight of Benin region, where many of the formerly enslaved peoples who relocated back and settled after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, presents an interesting example of architectural heritage with rich meaning and value. This essay will critically examine the Bight of Benin region’s Aguda architecture design processes via the lenses of history, socioeconomics, the environment, with a focus on comprehending the characteristics of architectural buildings at the urban scale and the influence of Porto-Novo and Lagos as case studies. The typology of this architectural style, its relationship to collective memories, and the tangible components that enshrine social value and significance will be scrutinised via examination of both its African and Brazilian influences. Also the fast urbanisation of Porto-Novo shows that the material degradation of these buildings, lack of investment, effects of climate change induced weather events and other effects are putting these historic buildings in danger of disappearing. This essay is a part of an ongoing digital documentation and archiving of these buildings as a digital preservation effort using LIDAR scanning, ArcGIS tools and social participation of local stakeholders and building custodians. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 924-942 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2578959 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2578959 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:924-942 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2543915_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Diana Morales Author-X-Name-First: Diana Author-X-Name-Last: Morales Author-Name: Luke Green Author-X-Name-First: Luke Author-X-Name-Last: Green Author-Name: David Marlow Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Marlow Author-Name: Carlos Cadena Gaitán Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Author-X-Name-Last: Cadena Gaitán Author-Name: Sabina Deitrick Author-X-Name-First: Sabina Author-X-Name-Last: Deitrick Author-Name: Michael R. Glass Author-X-Name-First: Michael R. Author-X-Name-Last: Glass Author-Name: Louise Kempton Author-X-Name-First: Louise Author-X-Name-Last: Kempton Title: Defining inclusive innovation: challenges and lessons for innovation districts Abstract: The concept of inclusive innovation has rapidly gained traction in academic and policy circles as a response to the distributional problems of traditional innovation strategies. It has since become a key focus in the design and implementation of innovation districts, geographically delineated spaces that foster collaboration among businesses and research institutions to drive innovation and economic growth. Despite this increasing interest, inclusive innovation remains a ‘fuzzy’, imprecise concept, and its application is occurring faster than grounded case study research is capable of understanding and informing best practice. To address this research and policy gap, this paper examines inclusive innovation policy and practice in four urban innovation districts: Belfast (Northern Ireland), Medellín (Colombia), Newcastle upon Tyne (England) and Pittsburgh (USA). Utilising qualitative research methods and a paired case study comparative methodology (Newcastle-Pittsburgh and Medellín-Belfast), we find that definitions of inclusive innovation are not fuzzy per se but deeply rooted in the local context, while significant disjunctions persist between how innovation investments are designed and delivered and how social inclusion objectives are realised. We conclude that inclusive innovation is the co-creation of new ideas, practices or technologies with local communities, businesses and organisations to address societal challenges, ensuring equitable benefit distribution and fostering community empowerment. Effective strategies prioritise outcomes that address local challenges, ensure equitable distribution of benefits and engage communities, particularly disadvantaged groups, in shaping intervention priorities and activities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 740-753 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2543915 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2543915 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:740-753 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2581470_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ibrahim Shaheen Author-X-Name-First: Ibrahim Author-X-Name-Last: Shaheen Author-Name: Steven Brakman Author-X-Name-First: Steven Author-X-Name-Last: Brakman Author-Name: Jacopo Canello Author-X-Name-First: Jacopo Author-X-Name-Last: Canello Author-Name: Harry Garretsen Author-X-Name-First: Harry Author-X-Name-Last: Garretsen Title: Globalisation in flux: examining the role of inter-regional linkages in building regional resilience Abstract: A growing debate in the literature addresses the challenges posed by globalisation to regional economies and the strategic shift toward regionalisation. However, tension exists between reducing global integration and the quest for balancing global and local views on regional development. Moreover, the rising uncertainty and lack of stability in today’s global economy intensify the tension and further fuel the debate. In this paper, we contribute to the current discussion on globalisation by investigating the role of inter-regional linkages in building regional resilience during the Great Recession of 2008. We focus on geographical proximity, market access, migration and regional trade as proxies for regional integration. Drawing on data from 262 nomenclature of territorial units for statistics, level 2 (NUTS2) regions, we find that denser inter-regional linkages are associated with better regional resilience. Our findings call for a more balanced approach toward regional development that acknowledges the duality of exogenous and endogenous causation of regional evolution. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 943-962 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2581470 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2581470 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:943-962 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2490756_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Evans Korang Adjei Author-X-Name-First: Evans Korang Author-X-Name-Last: Adjei Title: Typologies of familial space in family firms Abstract: Over the years, family business and regional science scholars have developed an interest in exploring and understanding the relationship between the two research fields, typically, on how they influence each other. In this article, we build on the family business and the regional context to question and explore how family firms are locally embedded. We argue that the importance of local embeddedness of family firms cannot be fully understood without untangling how and what family firms are locally embedded in. Drawing on the relational spatial ontology and familial factors, and within the regional development framework, we propose typologies of family firms’ relational spaces, thereafter, familial spaces – cognitive familial space, institutional familial space, social familial space, organisational familial space and clientele/communal familial space. Where we define familial spaces as the relational networks of varied functional relationships enabled by familial factors at the disposal of family firms to explore. Based on a multidisciplinary perspective, we offer a specification of familial space and explore how the regional context and family governance system can influence the familial spaces. We maintain that family firms whose resources and productive activities are anchored in specific local places, and who themselves are locally attached, may be more likely than any other organisational type to influence familial spaces to influence their (non) economic goals. We propose suggestions for future research. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 433-455 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2490756 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2490756 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:433-455 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2523050_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ruth Cherrington Author-X-Name-First: Ruth Author-X-Name-Last: Cherrington Author-Name: Danielle Farrow Author-X-Name-First: Danielle Author-X-Name-Last: Farrow Author-Name: Marco Campenni Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Campenni Title: Can B local communities redefine regional identity? Abstract: B Corporations (B Corps) embed high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability in their operations. B Locals, as regional communities of values-driven businesses, provide a lens to examine how businesses shape and are shaped by their local contexts. While research on sustainability in business is growing, little attention has been given to the intersection of organisational and regional identity within these ecosystems. This study explores how a B Local functions as a values-based business ecosystem, influencing regional narratives and business practices.Using a mixed-methods approach, this research examines how purpose-driven businesses balance profitability with impact while navigating internal and external challenges. Findings reveal that organisational identity extends beyond mission statements, shaping decision-making, stakeholder relationships and social impact. While businesses align around shared values, tensions arise in translating commitments into operations, particularly as teams adapt to evolving goals. The B Corp certification process emerges as more than a benchmarking tool; it fosters shared understanding, informs strategy and enhances credibility in broader markets.Crucially, this research underscores the reciprocal relationship between businesses and regional identity. While unique regional challenges exist, they also foster collaboration and a collective responsibility to reshape the economic landscape. Businesses can leverage this identity to drive innovation and expand beyond traditional economic narratives. By highlighting the interdependence between place-based identity and values-driven business ecosystems like B Locals, this study provides insights for businesses, policymakers and ecosystem facilitators seeking to harness regional identity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 574-595 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2523050 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2523050 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:574-595 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2578940_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Fabiano Compagnucci Author-X-Name-First: Fabiano Author-X-Name-Last: Compagnucci Author-Name: Alessandra Faggian Author-X-Name-First: Alessandra Author-X-Name-Last: Faggian Author-Name: Giulia Urso Author-X-Name-First: Giulia Author-X-Name-Last: Urso Title: The more labelled, the more resilient? Place branding and the 2008 Great Recession in Italian inner areas Abstract: This paper addresses the theoretical and empirical gap regarding the relationship between place branding and regional economic resilience during the 2008 Great Recession, focusing on Italian inner areas as defined by the National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) classification. Specifically, it investigates whether labels linked to preservation and quality of nature and landscape, agriculture and livestock production, and cultural–historical–architectural heritage helped mitigate the impact of the crisis. The econometric analysis reveals a mixed relationship between these place-branding factors and the resilience patterns, with predominantly adverse effects. These findings should be carefully considered in light of the growing place-based policy emphasis on peripheral areas at the Italian and EU levels. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 881-894 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2578940 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2578940 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:881-894 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2473532_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Feng Yiyun Author-X-Name-First: Feng Author-X-Name-Last: Yiyun Author-Name: Lai Wei Sieng Author-X-Name-First: Lai Author-X-Name-Last: Wei Sieng Title: Can digital financial inclusion promote urban economic resilience? Evidence from Guangxi, China Abstract: Current research suggests digital financial inclusion (DFI) can promote economic resilience regionally by reaching marginalised groups. This paper aims to innovatively determine the function of DFI on urban economic resilience (UER) from a spatial perspective by taking Guangxi province in China as an example. The spatial Durbin model with dual fixed effects and panel data from prefecture-level cities over the period 2011–2022 were employed in our study. We find that (1) the advancement of DFI in Guangxi has a notable positive contribution to the improvement of UER, and the higher the DFI index of a city, the higher its UER level; (2) the expansion of DFI in surrounding regions has negative spatial spillover effects on the local UER level and (3) a distinct Siphon Effect is observed in the urban economic resilience among Guangxi cities. This study also provides recommendations for enhancing urban economic resilience in Guangxi. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 205-224 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2473532 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2473532 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:205-224 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2505532_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Yihan Guan Author-X-Name-First: Yihan Author-X-Name-Last: Guan Author-Name: Chung Yim Yiu Author-X-Name-First: Chung Yim Author-X-Name-Last: Yiu Author-Name: Ka Shing Cheung Author-X-Name-First: Ka Shing Author-X-Name-Last: Cheung Title: Mapping unobserved coopetitions between shopping malls using mobile geolocation data Abstract: This study challenges the conventional retail catchment analysis, which typically asserts that proximity is the primary driver of shopping mall patronage. Using mobile geolocation data, we explore the catchment areas for patrons of two major Auckland malls, influenced by both cooperation and competition (known as coopetition) amongst mall and tenants, alongside the actual consumer preferences. By mapping the home-like locations of these mall patrons and the dynamics of their catchment areas across different day and time ranges, we uncover distinctive visiting patterns. The suburb mall draws significant traffic during off-peak hours, especially on weekends, likely due to its family-oriented leisure amenities, whilst the central business district (CBD) mall sees higher footfall on weekdays, likely driven by its proximity to workplaces. This research is a paradigm shift in understanding the actual patronised retail catchment, offering actionable insights for urban planners and retail managers to refine strategic positioning in urban retail settings. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 509-512 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2505532 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2505532 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:509-512 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2454264_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Abantika Mukherjee Author-X-Name-First: Abantika Author-X-Name-Last: Mukherjee Author-Name: Haimanti Banerji Author-X-Name-First: Haimanti Author-X-Name-Last: Banerji Title: Jute mills as restorative landscapes: perceptions of environmental aesthetics in living industrial heritage Abstract: This study explores the potential of industrial heritage sites to contribute to a restorative landscape by analysing the perceptions of the industrial workers towards the environmental aesthetics components. The conglomeration of operational and abandoned jute mills forms a distinctive continuous industrial landscape along both banks of the Hooghly River in West Bengal. Apart from creating a historic industrial landscape, the elements within each of the heritage jute mills contain aesthetically significant built and natural elements. Urban regeneration proposals for these sites are receiving attention from the stakeholders, where the concept of restorative landscapes may be incorporated. The study employs an empirical approach, to assess the aesthetic preferences and perceived environmental quality of jute mill environments, by the first-hand users of the site. Data was collected from 273 workers of six heritage jute mills in West Bengal, India. A binomial logistic regression analysis was conducted on the seven identified components of environmental aesthetics. The results indicate the potential and challenges of industrial heritage sites in proposing restorative landscapes. The findings highlight the contribution of these industrial heritage sites to the regional landscape, demonstrating the potential to enhance not only local worker well-being but also the overall urban environment. By integrating workers’ views, this study contributes to a more inclusive approach to industrial heritage management, offering a framework for applying restorative landscape theory to large-scale industrial sites. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 43-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2454264 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2454264 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:43-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2515218_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Takaki Kobayashi Author-X-Name-First: Takaki Author-X-Name-Last: Kobayashi Author-Name: Keisuke Sakamoto Author-X-Name-First: Keisuke Author-X-Name-Last: Sakamoto Title: Changes in the residential migration in the Tokyo metropolitan area after the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: Until recently, many large cities received migration back to their city centres. However, some large cities, including Tokyo, lost in-migration and experienced out-migration from the centre after the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to identify the relations between the migration population and socio-geographical characteristics in a large city after the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on a comparison with pre-pandemic relations. Tokyo metropolitan area was used as an example. We obtained annual data from 2019 to 2022 on inter-municipalities migration in Japan and official survey data for socio-geographical features for origin and destination municipalities to create a modified gravity model. The results showed that the variables included in the original gravity model related to migration from and to the Tokyo metropolitan area both before and after the pandemic. This implied that the basic relation of people migrating close to where they lived was consistent before and after the pandemic. However, we found that more people migrated to areas with more green spaces and retail facilities and farther from the central business district (CBD) in 2020, 2021 and 2022 than in 2019, and more people migrated to areas with larger houses in 2021 and 2022 than in 2019. This implies that residential preferences might change after the pandemic and the Tokyo metropolitan area might be affected by the forces of decentralisation and polycentricity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 532-553 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2515218 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2515218 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:532-553 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2569237_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Correction Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 771-771 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2569237 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2569237 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:771-771 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2453572_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Lorenzo Marmo Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Marmo Author-Name: Antonis Rovolis Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Rovolis Author-Name: Vasilis Avdikos Author-X-Name-First: Vasilis Author-X-Name-Last: Avdikos Title: The role of collaborative workspaces in promoting networking opportunities: a comparison between urban and peripheral contexts Abstract: This paper aims at assessing the role of collaborative workspaces (CWS) as interaction platforms able to offer networking opportunities on different levels and with a diverse array of stakeholders. Several qualitative studies have emphasised that CWS function as focal points, providing open physical space, materials and social settings which help different actors find specific services, resources and foster their interaction. This study is the first that aims to shed light, through quantitative evidence, upon the main determinants influencing the role of CWS in urban and non-urban areas as platforms for networking opportunities on the following three dimensions: focal point on the local level; wider networks of CWS on the regional, national and international level; relationships with external actors such as medium-large firms, locally-rooted industries and with the third sector. Simple, ordered and multinomial probit models were applied in the econometric analysis using data from a survey directed to managers of CWS in Europe. Results suggest that CWS outside cities are more likely to be part of regional and national networks of similar spaces. Whereas, CWS in cities have a stronger relationship with medium-large firms, non-governmental organisation (NGOs) and they are more likely to participate in networks of CWS on the international level. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 23-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2453572 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2453572 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:23-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2526125_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Iwona Kantor-Pietraga Author-X-Name-First: Iwona Author-X-Name-Last: Kantor-Pietraga Author-Name: Paulina Kandzia Author-X-Name-First: Paulina Author-X-Name-Last: Kandzia Title: Urban villages in the structure of a post-industrial agglomeration Abstract: The study identified morphological and functional changes over almost 200 years in urban villages. Historical and contemporary cartographic material made this study possible. The comparative analysis is mainly concerned with the spatial features of the centres of former villages, how their appearance differs from the background of urban centres of the highly urbanised Katowice conurbation in Poland and the dominant functions performed by these areas in the past and today. Data in 2024 from online auction websites were also used, based on an inventory of real estate sales offers in the urban villages under study. We compared the average prices for one square metre of real estate in urban villages with prices for entire cities. It also shows how prices are shaped in historic buildings. The study aimed to present the relics of old villages as willingly inhabited areas in the structure of a post-industrial agglomeration. Despite intensive urbanisation processes, such areas have retained features typical of rural centres. Significantly, this contrasts with highly urbanised areas such as the city centres of the Katowice conurbation. Urban villages are not marginalised, as real estate prices do not differ significantly from the average real estate values in the cities of the Katowice conurbation. The juxtaposition of the results with the demand trends in the real estate market allowed us to conclude that the population willingly lives in the analysed areas. The study proves the attractiveness of urban villages that stand out in terms of morphology and functionality compared to large cities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 634-655 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2526125 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2526125 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:634-655 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2452524_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Agim Kukeli Author-X-Name-First: Agim Author-X-Name-Last: Kukeli Title: The effects and the macroeconomic dynamics of natural disaster damages: investigation of local evidence Abstract: This study investigates the macroeconomic consequences of natural disasters in southeast Texas, a region frequently distressed by meteorological and hydrological events. By concentrating on a county-level analysis, we methodically assess the impacts of natural disaster damages on key economic indicators: aggregate personal income, aggregate wages, wages per worker, aggregate employment and aggregate income transfers over the period 1990–2019. In addition, using the panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model, the research examines the complex dynamics between these economic variables under the stress of natural disaster shocks, offering a better understanding of their interplay and evolution over time. Findings reveal that natural disasters cause a noteworthy influence on the regional economy, with more than four events annually leading to an average loss equivalent to 2.2% of the region's real personal income. The study finds that natural disaster damages adversely affect wages and unemployment but do improve real personal income and real income transfer. The analysis also sheds light on their extended economic effects, thereby enhancing understanding of the resilience and adaptive mechanisms at play within affected communities. This study's unique contribution lies in its detailed examination of southeast Texas's economic resilience and vulnerability, which provides invaluable insights into the macroeconomic dynamics of natural disaster damages. The use of PVAR methodology enables a sophisticated analysis of the causal relationships and temporal dynamics, paving the way for informed policymaking to mitigate the adverse impacts of future natural disasters. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 5-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2452524 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2452524 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:5-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_2550339_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Yonatan Navon Author-X-Name-First: Yonatan Author-X-Name-Last: Navon Author-Name: Sarah Sinclair Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Sinclair Author-Name: Sveta Angelopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Sveta Author-X-Name-Last: Angelopoulos Author-Name: Maria Yanotti Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Yanotti Author-Name: Ashton de Silva Author-X-Name-First: Ashton de Author-X-Name-Last: Silva Title: City use patterns post COVID-19 – reflections of resilience or adaptation Abstract: The rapid acceleration of digitisation during COVID-19, coupled with the persistence of remote work practices, has reshaped how people interact in urban environments. These shifts, driven by technological innovation, have altered patterns of agglomeration, potentially disrupting the structure and function of cities. As cities adapt to these changes, understanding their resilience – how they absorb and respond to disruptions is crucial for future planning and policy. City use patterns can impact operational service delivery, urban and transport planning, and, in the longer term, social capital formation and cultural engagement. In this investigation, using Melbourne, Australia, as a case study, we examine localised pedestrian counts to explore city use resilience and adaptability in the aftermath of the recent global pandemic. Specific days and intra-day times are used to represent commuting and leisure and entertainment activities. Using pedestrian counts to gauge changes in city use, enables nuanced social and economic insights, helping policymakers and stakeholders to identify possible initiatives and reforms needed to adapt to shifting community practices. We find that while city use is gradually reaching similar levels to 2019 (pre-COVID-19), a disaggregation across days and times reveals that weekends are significantly busier, while weekdays are quieter. Our analysis suggests a strong revealed preference for leisure-related city use, illustrating an adaptive, resilient (antifragile) city. To the extent our results are generalisable, they indicate that engagement patterns are changing, and policy responses centred around digital connectivity and sustainability will be particularly important to foster thriving, innovative cities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 754-770 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2025 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2025.2550339 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2025.2550339 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:12:y:2025:i:1:p:754-770 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_869423_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alasdair Rae Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair Author-X-Name-Last: Rae Author-Name: Alex Singleton Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Singleton Title: Open access and Regional Studies, Regional Science Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2013.869423 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2013.869423 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_869424_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Sarah Ayres Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Ayres Title: Place-based leadership: reflections on scale, agency and theory Abstract: This article draws on the concepts of scale, agency and theory to offer some reflections on the leadership of regions, cities and communities. It builds upon the work of A. Beer and T. Clower ([2013]. Mobilizing leadership in cities and regions, Regional Studies, Regional Science, forthcoming) who call for a more focussed and theoretically informed enquiry on place-based leadership. First, it argues that scale matters in the leadership of territory and the skills and resources required to manage cities compared to small communities will differ greatly. Second, conceptions of place-based leadership need to remain open minded about where leadership can be derived and the potential for bottom-up, creative responses to shape the leadership of place. Finally, there has been work in other disciplines, most notably, policy network theory, that might be used to inform an understanding of place-based leadership. Bringing the literatures together on policy network theory, territorial governance and leadership offers a fruitful avenue for future research. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 21-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2013.869424 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2013.869424 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:21-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_869428_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Andrew Beer Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Author-Name: Terry Clower Author-X-Name-First: Terry Author-X-Name-Last: Clower Title: Mobilizing leadership in cities and regions Abstract: Increasing attention has been given to the role of leadership as an important determinant of growth at the regional or local scale (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), [2010]. Regions matter. Paris: OECD, [2012]. Growth in all regions. Paris: OECD). Scholarship on the leadership of places, however, remains an under-developed field, with much research either overly reliant upon perspectives drawn from management disciplines or limited to case study analysis of ‘success’ stories. While there have been significant exceptions (Stimson, Stough, with Salazar, [2009]. Leadership and institutions in regional endogenous development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), too little attention has been paid to developing a systematic approach to understanding place leadership. This paper reviews the literature on the leadership of places and argues there is now a sufficient body of scholarship to enable the development of more analytically rigorous approaches. It also posits that effective leadership is now more important for the success of places than in the past and that contemporary growth dynamics are likely to raise its significance further. The paper argues that governments and communities alike can encourage the development of local leadership and that the steps needed to achieve this objective are already well known. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 5-20 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2013.869428 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2013.869428 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:5-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_869430_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: John Gibney Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Gibney Title: Don’t lose sight of context: a commentary on mobilizing cities and regions Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 25-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2013.869430 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2013.869430 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:25-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_869431_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Markku Sotarauta Author-X-Name-First: Markku Author-X-Name-Last: Sotarauta Title: Reflections on ‘Mobilizing leadership in cities and regions’ Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 28-31 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2013.869431 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2013.869431 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:28-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_887899_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Basak Demires Ozkul Author-X-Name-First: Basak Demires Author-X-Name-Last: Ozkul Title: Changing home-to-work travel in England and Wales Abstract: In the UK, functional city-regions are usually determined by travel-to-work areas (TTWAs): discrete bounded areas defining a threshold for self-containment for commuters. Since their establishment in the 1980s, changes in commutes have pushed TTWA boundaries further. This can only be observed through historic comparison at the sub-regional level, which has not been possible due to data limitations. By systematically analysing commuting patterns between 1981 and 2001 using geographically consistent data, this paper looks at longer-term socio-economic dynamics affecting the structure of city-regions. The findings are critical in anticipation of updated TTWAs based on 2011 Census commuting data. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 32-39 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.887899 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.887899 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:32-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_891649_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ed Manley Author-X-Name-First: Ed Author-X-Name-Last: Manley Title: Identifying functional urban regions within traffic flow Abstract: In this work, community detection algorithms are applied to a topological representation of the road network formed through observed routing behaviour. The resulting communities provide an insight into how areas of the city may be grouped as functional regions, shaped purely on their shared usage. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 40-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.891649 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.891649 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:40-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_892729_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Sophie Deraëve Author-X-Name-First: Sophie Author-X-Name-Last: Deraëve Title: Pôles métropolitains: the French approach towards inter-city networking Abstract: In France, ‘les pôles métropolitains’ (PM) is the latest central government initiative to reinforce inter-city cooperation (2010). After giving a short overview of French city-networking history, this paper investigates two ‘pôles métropolitains’ to explore the difficulties in achieving efficient inter-city cooperation. It finds that implementing such new tools for urban and economic projects requires new skills and spatial representation for planners, politicians and local administrations. This analysis gives decision-makers concrete examples of pôles métropolitains, focusing on governance issues. It can also help to stimulate progress in constructing a theoretical and critical approach for conceptualizing inter-city networking policy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 43-50 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.892729 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.892729 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:43-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_898906_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Timo Mitze Author-X-Name-First: Timo Author-X-Name-Last: Mitze Title: Does regional science need an experimentalist buzz? Abstract: The purpose of this article is to stimulate the discussion about the constant influx of new and potentially useful methods for empirical investigations in regional science and policy analysis. Particularly, the focus here lies on a brief presentation of ‘quasi’-experimentalist methods as a promising approach to derive causal statements with respect to the effectiveness of regional policy instruments. Outlining potential advantages and pitfalls of this approach by means of an illustrative empirical example, this article finally sets up a research agenda for its future use by regional scientists and economic geographers. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 51-59 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.898906 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.898906 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:51-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_899477_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: David Bailey Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Bailey Author-Name: Gill Bentley Author-X-Name-First: Gill Author-X-Name-Last: Bentley Author-Name: Alex de Ruyter Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: de Ruyter Author-Name: Stephen Hall Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Hall Title: Plant closures and taskforce responses: an analysis of the impact of and policy response to MG Rover in Birmingham Abstract: This paper explores the socio-economic impacts and associated policy responses to the collapse of MG Rover at Longbridge in Birmingham. Critically, it attempts to move beyond a ‘standard’ taskforce narrative that emphasizes the role of the regional response. While recognizing that significant policy ‘successes’ were indeed evident at the regional level in anticipating and responding to the crisis, a wider perspective is required that situates this taskforce response in (1) a fuller understanding of labour market precariousness (that in turn mitigates some of its policy ‘successes’), and (2) more local perspectives that highlight the local impacts of closure, the role of the neighbourhood level officials and the third sector in mediating these. Taking this broader perspective suggests that longer-term, workers face a precarious situation and the need for policies to create and sustain ‘good quality’ jobs remains paramount. Adding in more local perspectives, a key lesson from the Longbridge experience for dealing with closures more generally is that the public policy responses must be: multidimensional in that they transcend narrow sector-based concerns and addresses broader spatial impacts; inclusive in that they build on a broad coalition of economic and social stakeholders; and long-term in that they acknowledge that adaptation takes many years. If anything, the Birmingham Longbridge experience demonstrates the difficulty of achieving such responses in the context of crisis where action is imperative and deliberation a luxury. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 60-78 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.899477 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.899477 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:60-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_902322_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Christopher Wray Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Wray Title: Racial integration in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR), South Africa Abstract: South Africa’s history prior to the 1990s was one of racial division in all areas of life. To investigate the spatial extent of racial integration since the dismantling of apartheid in the early 1990s, population distribution by race across the Gauteng City-Region was mapped at a ward boundary level using the national 2011 Census, where one dot on the map represents 100 people. While racial segregation is still evident at a regional scale, there has been a gradual mixing of races at a residential suburb level in a number of historically coloured, Indian and white-only suburbs. In contrast, townships such as Soweto and the previous homeland areas of north-western Gauteng remain predominantly black. Although some progress has been made, generations of change are still required to achieve a spatially integrated society in South Africa. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 79-81 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.902322 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.902322 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:79-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_904596_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Kirstie O’Neill Author-X-Name-First: Kirstie Author-X-Name-Last: O’Neill Title: Localized food systems – what role does place play? Abstract: Localized food systems (LFS) are an important element of regional development, yet understanding why some regions develop strong LFS while others do not is unclear. Research from two contrasting regions, in the UK and in Italy, demonstrates the complexity of LFS, and the important role of place in determining how policy-makers understand and support LFS in these regions. Regions that are marginal to intensive agriculture are often viewed as the stronghold of LFS. This paper challenges this view through evidence of a growing number of LFS in East Yorkshire. Both case study regions share similar issues in developing LFS. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 82-87 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.904596 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.904596 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:82-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_904597_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Laura McKim Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: McKim Title: The economic geography of active commuting: regional insights from Wellington, New Zealand Abstract: Historically in New Zealand, car travel has replaced walking and cycling among commuters as wage rates have risen. However, time-series data from the Wellington region show the relationship between income and active commuting differs from the historical trend. While higher incomes do allow people to purchase motorized transport, they also allow workers to purchase shorter commutes and to integrate active modes with public transport. As a result, the probability of active commuting rises with income. Raising urban density can help stem some of the negative environmental and health effects of rising affluence. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 88-95 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.904597 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.904597 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:88-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_911112_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Andrew Beer Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Title: Structural adjustment and the automotive industry: insights for regional policy and programmes Abstract: This paper provides commentary on Bailey et al.’s paper entitled ‘Plant closures and taskforce responses: an analysis of the impact of and policy response to MG Rover in Birmingham’ ([2014]. Regional Studies, Regional Science. DOI:10.1080/21681376.2014.899477). The paper argues that this contribution needs to be placed alongside other works by this group of researchers (Bailey, De Ruyter, Chapain, Clarke, MacNeill) and assessed for the broader contribution this body of work makes to our understanding of new, and emerging, models of regional policy. It is argued that established conceptualizations of regional policy and programmes either tend to focus on a redistributive approach to the well-being of places that reflects the ‘spatial Keynesianism’ of the past or accept the new mercantilist perspectives that have been reflected in the work of authors such as Glaeser and Storper. This paper, and the wider body of work of which it is representative, suggests an alternative approach to the development of places that gives scope for public sector intervention while acknowledging the importance of private sector processes and the highly differentiated nature of regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 96-101 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.911112 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.911112 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:96-101 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_913973_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Richard J. Cebula Author-X-Name-First: Richard J. Author-X-Name-Last: Cebula Author-Name: Usha Nair-Reichert Author-X-Name-First: Usha Author-X-Name-Last: Nair-Reichert Author-Name: Christopher K. Coombs Author-X-Name-First: Christopher K. Author-X-Name-Last: Coombs Title: Total state in-migration rates and public policy in the United States: a comparative analysis of the Great Recession and the pre- and post-Great Recession years Abstract: This study adopts state-level data to investigate empirically the Tiebout hypothesis (as extended by Tullock) of ‘voting with one’s feet’ for the period referred to in the United States as the ‘Great Recession’ (2007–09). As compared with previous studies, more recent data are used and estimates are provided for three time periods: the ‘Great Recession’ (from 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2009), the pre-Great Recession period (1 July 2004 to 30 June 2006) and the post-Great Recession period (1 July 2009 to 30 June 2011). This analysis also differs from most previous literature by including a separate cost-of-living variable and a variable measuring effective state personal income tax rates. After allowing for various economic factors and quality of life/climate variables, migrants (consumer-voters) over the 2007–09 period appear to prefer states with lower effective state personal income tax rates and higher levels of ‘fiscal surplus’, defined in this study for each state as the total outlay per pupil on primary and secondary public education minus the per capita property tax level. The three empirical estimates all demonstrate that the Tiebout/Tullock hypothesis was operational not only during but also both before and after the Great Recession since for all three time periods migrants (consumer-voters) manifested a preference for lower effective state personal income tax rates and higher levels of fiscal surplus. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 102-115 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.913973 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.913973 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:102-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_934391_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Marina Moreira de Aguiar Author-X-Name-First: Marina Author-X-Name-Last: Moreira de Aguiar Author-Name: Rodrigo Simões Author-X-Name-First: Rodrigo Author-X-Name-Last: Simões Author-Name: André Braz Golgher Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Braz Golgher Title: Housing market analysis using a hierarchical–spatial approach: the case of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil Abstract: The paper analyzes the determinants of apartments’ prices in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, with the use of hierarchical models, spatial models and a hierarchical-spatial approach. Besides the apartments’ characteristics, such as area, age and building standard, prices were determined by local urban amenities. The hierarchical models indicated that local variables, such as urban violence, infrastructure and services, explained over 75% of prices’ remaining variability. The spatial models analyzed if, after controlling for price variability with the explanatory variables in the second level of the hierarchical models, spatial correlations still existed in price determination. The positive and significant spatial coefficient in spatial autoregressive models (SAR) indicated spatial dependency. The hierarchical-spatial approach showed that over 70% of apartment prices’ remaining variability could be explained by local variables and that the lagged urban services variable explained another 12% of this variability. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 116-137 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.934391 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.934391 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:116-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_939529_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ana Rita Cruz Author-X-Name-First: Ana Rita Author-X-Name-Last: Cruz Title: Tourism, creativity and talent: breaking Algarve’s tourism lock-in Abstract: Over the past decades creative and cultural activities have had modest opportunity to develop and grow in Algarve (Portugal) due to the tourism specialization in ‘sun and sand’. The regional dynamics based in this specific tourism product created path dependencies and limited opportunities for expansion and consolidation of the cultural and creative sector. Using the model of three Ts – talent, technology, tolerance – this short article presents the relative creative potential of Algarve, and opportunities to diversify the tourism offer attracting talented people and breaking the regional economic lock-in. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 138-144 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.939529 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.939529 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:138-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_943804_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Golam Rasul Author-X-Name-First: Golam Author-X-Name-Last: Rasul Author-Name: Eklabya Sharma Author-X-Name-First: Eklabya Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma Title: Understanding the poor economic performance of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India: a macro-perspective Abstract: This paper investigates the underlying causes of poor economic growth of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, despite being endowed with relatively rich natural resources. Against the conventional view, the analysis reveals that poor economic growth is not due to a particular factor but an outcome of a myriad of social, economic and political factors rooted in structural, historical and macro-economic policies. The economic marginalization of Bihar and UP began in the colonial era through the establishment of an exploitative landlord class, which constantly resisted economic and social development even after independence in 1947. The process of marginalization has further been reinforced by the federal central government’s policy of ‘freight equalization’, which nullified the comparative advantage of Bihar and UP in natural resources by subsidizing railway freights of industrial inputs like coal, iron ore, steel, cement and other bulk resources. This, combined with relatively low financial resources received from central government over the consecutive plan periods, has undermined these states’ capacity to invest in health, education, and other social and physical infrastructure and resulted in low human development. The poor performance of Bihar and UP may be attributed to low human capital, weak institutions and poor infrastructure coupled with political instability and social conflict rooted in sectarian politics based on caste, class and ethnic division. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 221-239 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.943804 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.943804 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:221-239 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_944208_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Stephen Miller Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Miller Title: The Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) in Scotland’s innovation system Abstract: Research and technology organizations (RTOs) have been the subject of recent interest because of the benefits they can bring to regional innovation systems. RTO functions must be tailored to their environments, but there has been little research into how these functions can be systematically deduced using the regional innovation system model as a normative reference. This paper examines the optimal functions of a new RTO in Scotland. An ex ante analysis based on three thematic areas (linkages, themes and services, and strategic capability) is used to consider how this RTO can optimally function in an innovation system with recognized structural weaknesses. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 145-151 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.944208 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.944208 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:145-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_944209_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Rhiannon Elisabeth Pugh Author-X-Name-First: Rhiannon Elisabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Pugh Title: ‘Old wine in new bottles’? Smart Specialisation in Wales Abstract: This paper explores the translation and implementation of Smart Specialisation in Wales. It finds that rather than taking a new approach to innovation policy, Welsh policy-makers are following a largely cluster-based rationale, which omits the important entrepreneurial discovery process to identify the real strengths of the region. The fresh idea presented by this paper is that a replication of past policy approaches that have been tried and found wanting is taking place rather than a new approach to innovation policy across Europe. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 152-157 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.944209 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.944209 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:152-157 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_952769_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Marilena Labianca Author-X-Name-First: Marilena Author-X-Name-Last: Labianca Title: Inter-municipal cooperation: from cooperation through rules to cooperation through networks – empirical evidence from Puglia Abstract: In recent years, inter-communal cooperation has been steadily growing across all European countries. This is especially true for Italy, where in connection with the recent reforms dictated by the objectives of public spending containment, a gradual increase in the number of municipal unions has been noted. This paper, which is based on the literature and the best practices of Italian municipal unions, aims to identify the factors that underlie their success and to detect the conditions that facilitate the transition from the simplest forms of cooperation to more complex ones. In particular, in the south of Italy (in Puglia, specifically), it seems that these conditions exist. The region has particular and common features with the best practices of Italian municipal unions, but also critical issues to solve. Therefore, this paper will initially present the context of cooperation in Italy, and then will focus on the situation in Puglia. The Apulian union’s features, objectives, roles and ongoing task assignments will be examined and compared with the exiting data in order to verify their efficiency. In this way, the type of inter-communal cooperation will be identified in relation to the municipal unions that exist in the region. The study will then be deepened to verify the existence of favourable conditions for the transition to more complex forms of cooperation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 184-206 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.952769 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.952769 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:184-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_952770_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Bradley Bereitschaft Author-X-Name-First: Bradley Author-X-Name-Last: Bereitschaft Title: Neighbourhood change among creative–cultural districts in mid-sized US metropolitan areas, 2000–10 Abstract: Cities across the United States are experiencing a surge in urban residential development, particularly within the downtown core and other centrally located, historic, mixed-use urban neighbourhoods. Often situated in former warehouse districts or other ‘marginal’ areas, many of these neighbourhoods have been revalorized and reinvented as hubs of creative–cultural production and consumption. Through an examination of 102 US neighbourhoods in 70 mid-sized metropolitan areas, this article explores patterns in the physical form, geography, and recent demographic and socio-economic evolution of the ‘creative–cultural district’ (CCD). The results of this exploratory analysis suggest that over the previous decade (2000–10), the majority of CCDs attracted high-skill, high-wage creative–knowledge workers at a rate faster than their respective metropolitan areas. This ‘creative gentrification’ was also evident in rising residential populations, household income, education and rent. Rent increased faster than income in over half the surveyed neighbourhoods, suggesting that a widening deficit in affordable housing has accompanied growing consumer demand for vibrant urban neighbourhoods and associated arts/cultural/entertainment amenities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 158-183 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.952770 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.952770 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:158-183 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_953196_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Akihiro Otsuka Author-X-Name-First: Akihiro Author-X-Name-Last: Otsuka Author-Name: Mika Goto Author-X-Name-First: Mika Author-X-Name-Last: Goto Author-Name: Toshiyuki Sueyoshi Author-X-Name-First: Toshiyuki Author-X-Name-Last: Sueyoshi Title: Cost-efficiency of Japanese local governments: effects of decentralization and regional integration Abstract: Stochastic frontier analysis is used to examine the cost-efficiency of Japanese local governments at a prefectural level, corresponding to states in the United States. The issue of cost-efficiency has two policy concerns for fiscal decentralization: one is whether fiscal transfers from central government to local governments influence cost-efficiency; the other is whether the size of the local population influences cost-efficiency. This study empirically confirms that the fiscal transfers have a negative effect. In contrast, population size has a positive effect. The two findings may suggest that Japanese local governments can improve their cost-efficiencies by both reducing the amount of fiscal transfers via decentralization and increasing a population growth via regional integration. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 207-220 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.953196 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.953196 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:207-220 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_962595_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Maxwell Douglas Hartt Author-X-Name-First: Maxwell Douglas Author-X-Name-Last: Hartt Title: An innovative technique for modelling impacts of coastal storm damage Abstract: A spatial–temporal model is developed to model the impacts of simulated coastal region storm surge and flooding using a combined spatial mapping and system dynamics approach. By coupling geographic information systems and system dynamics, the interconnecting components of the spatial–temporal model are used with historical data to evaluate storm damage. The model examines the component-wise changes to the physical environment, community infrastructure and socioeconomic resources from simulated storm surges. To illustrate this model, the research is applied to the case of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, Canada, a vulnerable coastal city subject to considerable impacts from increasingly frequent severe storm surges. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 240-247 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.962595 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.962595 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:240-247 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_964299_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Mabel Sánchez-Barrioluengo Author-X-Name-First: Mabel Author-X-Name-Last: Sánchez-Barrioluengo Title: ‘Turning the tables’: regions shaping university performance Abstract: This paper straddles the systems of innovation and the economic geography theories that conceptualize universities as engines of regional development and drivers of growth. However, these approaches overlook the heterogeneity of universities in the process of engagement, assuming their equal capacity to contribute to their region. In the view proposed here, not only does the university influence the surrounding region, but also regional characteristics shape university performance. The paper puts into perspective differences between university profiles in Spain based on their strategies and performance, and the scale and scope of the capabilities to contribute to their regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 276-285 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.964299 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.964299 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:276-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_967803_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Oliver Plum Author-X-Name-First: Oliver Author-X-Name-Last: Plum Author-Name: Robert Hassink Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Hassink Title: Knowledge bases, innovativeness and competitiveness in creative industries: the case of Hamburg’s video game developers Abstract: Due to its growing economic power, creative industries have climbed scholars’ and policy-makers’ agendas in recent years. However, in comparison with a high number of cluster studies on rather traditional industries, systematic research on knowledge production, innovation processes and competitiveness in creative industry clusters is still underrepresented. This paper aims to fill this gap by investigating the video game development industry in Hamburg, Germany, from a knowledge base perspective. The paper concludes that both the symbolic and the synthetic knowledge are the dominant elements that contribute to video game development in Hamburg. On a more critical note, it doubts whether the currently discussed knowledge base perspective is sufficient to explain the competitiveness of creative industries and proposes to analyse procedural knowledge in future research in order to be able to do so. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 248-268 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.967803 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.967803 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:248-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_967804_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Jelisaveta Mihajlović Author-X-Name-First: Jelisaveta Author-X-Name-Last: Mihajlović Title: The discursive construction of regional development policy of the North Bačka region, Serbia Abstract: Even though historical circumstances split Bačka region between Serbia and Hungary, its institutions remained determined to implement various policies to strengthen its regional identity and re-establish broken links. This research investigates the potential that discourses revolving around regional identity have in order to mobilize actors and institutions in the formulation of regional development strategies. Findings suggest that those discourses play an important role and that they both provide valuable frameworks within which policies were developed and specific issues considered or marginalized, and can guide policy choices and unify different actors under the policy problem. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 269-275 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.967804 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.967804 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:269-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_971859_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Kateřina Stančová Author-X-Name-First: Kateřina Author-X-Name-Last: Stančová Title: Attracting international research professionals: evidence from Tuscany Abstract: Economic and social transformations have accelerated global competition for international research professionals (IRPs). Yet, the number of IRPs in the Italian region of Tuscany remains low. What are the causes? This article discusses factors and barriers to sustainable attraction of IRPs in Tuscany. Particular attention is paid to organizational, policy-related, economic and human factors. The article concludes by considering regional-level policies to improve attraction and recruitment potential, and to achieve the ultimate goal of sustainable management of regional research capacities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 339-346 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.971859 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.971859 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:339-346 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_973439_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Chiara Garau Author-X-Name-First: Chiara Author-X-Name-Last: Garau Title: Smart paths for advanced management of cultural heritage Abstract: Internet and mobile communication has transformed the manner of conventionally interacting with cultural heritage, creating dynamic networks for all those involved. It provides opportunities to experiment with innovative mobile applications that, valorizing historical and environmental resources, complement the broader context of smart cities/regions. This paper aims to study an advanced virtual on-site fruition of cultural heritage by users–consumers, applied in the region of Sardinia, through the simulation of computer-based relational augmented reality (AR) applications. This case study, which is a unique regional attempt at promoting regional cultural heritage using AR technologies, is interesting because of its tourist offerings that today remain fragmented. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 286-293 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.973439 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.973439 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:286-293 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_976652_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Xiaohui Hu Author-X-Name-First: Xiaohui Author-X-Name-Last: Hu Title: State-led path creation in China’s rustbelt: the case of Fuxin Abstract: The role of state agencies in regional new path creation has been largely neglected and underexplored to date. This article aims to contribute to these debates by a case study of the wind power industry from China’s rustbelt, where local economies have been strongly influenced by the state. It demonstrates how a new growth industry was created over time by combined forces of the national and local state. This article suggests that the strategic actions and the interplay of multilevelled state actors in a changing national political economy should be taken into account when analysing path creation mechanisms in old industrial regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 294-300 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.976652 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.976652 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:294-300 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_977941_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alice Buoli Author-X-Name-First: Alice Author-X-Name-Last: Buoli Title: Beyond the border: exploring cross-scalar socio-spatial dynamics of conflict, resistance and encounter at the Ceuta–Morocco borderscapes Abstract: Along and across the border between the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and Morocco, cooperative and conflictual interactions, and a local amendment to the European Union external borders regime, have produced a multiplicity of everyday ‘atypical’ trade dynamics. These, in turn, have shaped the socio-spatial configurations of the enclave and, far beyond, of the neighbouring Tanger-Tetouan Region. Adopting the notion of ‘borderscapes’ as its main conceptual perspective, combined with research undertaken in Morocco, this article suggests that existing relational spaces and (informal) interactions can be catalysts for new perspectives of socio-spatial integration along and across the border, within the ‘cracks’ of current border regimes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 301-309 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.977941 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.977941 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:301-309 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_981577_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Philipp an de Meulen Author-X-Name-First: Philipp Author-X-Name-Last: an de Meulen Author-Name: Timo Mitze Author-X-Name-First: Timo Author-X-Name-Last: Mitze Title: Exploring the spatial variation in quality-adjusted rental prices and identifying hot spots in Berlin’s residential property market Abstract: In this work, we use residual values obtained from an estimated hedonic pricing model to assess the role of district-level neighbourhood effects for the spatial variation in quality-adjusted rental prices in Berlin between 2008 and 2013. By doing so, we also aim at identifying hot and cold spots of quality-adjusted rental prices for apartments across the residential locations within the city of Berlin. The resulting pattern of ‘residual’ rental prices with a growing concentration of hot spots in central districts of Berlin can be interpreted as the tenants’ valorization of apartments in geographic proximity to the city centre compared to similar properties in Berlin’s periphery once we control for the properties’ physical characteristics. The observed temporal evolution of the rental price distribution between 2008 and 2013 thereby hints at an ongoing gentrification process in Germany’s capital associated with the current housing market boom. This visual impression is also confirmed by the application of quantile regressions for a correlation analysis between quality-adjusted rental price values and Berlin district-level characteristics obtained from the last census in 2011. Among other factors, we find that districts’ net in-migration balances are positively correlated with quality-adjusted rental price levels for higher quantiles of the distribution, thereby potentially proxying the price dynamics of underlying gentrification processes. Using statistical tests from the explanatory spatial data analysis (ESDA) toolbox, we finally pinpoint particular hot spots of the city’s residential property market associated with a significant spatial clustering of similar rental price values around individual observations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 310-328 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.981577 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.981577 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:310-328 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_981578_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ieva Rozentale Author-X-Name-First: Ieva Author-X-Name-Last: Rozentale Title: Creative industries during economic recession: the case of Riga Abstract: Against the backdrop of research and policy advocating the growth potential of creative industries’ sectors in advanced economies, this article examines the performance of creative industries during economic crisis in a less advanced European city-region: Riga in Latvia. It discusses the data on entrepreneurial activity, employment, turnover and value-added of creative industries relative to the economy on average between 2007 and 2010. The results show that creative industries as a whole underperform compared with the economy on average during recession, however not all subsectors show the same patterns. Hence, it is suggested that a more sector- and place-specific approach would benefit both policy-making and research dealing with the role of creative industries in economic development. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 329-335 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.981578 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.981578 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:329-335 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_985702_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Jonathan Reades Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Reades Title: Mapping changes in the affordability of London with open-source software and open data: 1997–2012 Abstract: This work shows how open data and open-source software can be used to create sophisticated maps from large spatial data sets. The resulting maps enable both the fine-grained details of London’s property boom and the overarching impact that this is having on households with median earnings to be explored. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 336-338 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.985702 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.985702 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:336-338 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_986190_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Duncan Alexander Smith Author-X-Name-First: Duncan Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: Domestic energy use in England and Wales: a 3D density grid approach Abstract: Household energy use is of relevance for studies of sustainability and fuel poverty. Detailed mapping and spatial analysis is possible in the UK due to the release of fine-scale household energy-use data. The cartographical approach used here focuses on urban energy use and the relative performance of urban areas in England and Wales. The energy-use data were transformed to a 1 km2 grid of cells allowing consistent comparisons to be made between urban areas at the same zonal scale. Additionally cells were extruded according to population density, highlighting basic relationships between density and energy use. The urban perspective on energy use is important due to the strong influence of the built environment in determining energy efficiency, and furthermore due to the clustering of affluent and deprived social groups in cities. The results of the mapping highlight how the lowest and the highest energy-use districts are located within the same city-regions, and how further variations in energy use relate to housing density and energy-efficiency behaviours. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 347-349 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.986190 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.986190 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:347-349 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1013151_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Wolfgang Petzold Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Petzold Author-Name: Marius Guderjan Author-X-Name-First: Marius Author-X-Name-Last: Guderjan Author-Name: Alba Smeriglio Author-X-Name-First: Alba Author-X-Name-Last: Smeriglio Author-Name: Myrto Tourtouri Author-X-Name-First: Myrto Author-X-Name-Last: Tourtouri Author-Name: Neculai-Cristian Surubaru Author-X-Name-First: Neculai-Cristian Author-X-Name-Last: Surubaru Author-Name: Koen Salemink Author-X-Name-First: Koen Author-X-Name-Last: Salemink Author-Name: Piotr Idczak Author-X-Name-First: Piotr Author-X-Name-Last: Idczak Author-Name: Christian Kjær Monsson Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Kjær Monsson Author-Name: Hunor Bajtalan Author-X-Name-First: Hunor Author-X-Name-Last: Bajtalan Author-Name: Chiara Garau Author-X-Name-First: Chiara Author-X-Name-Last: Garau Author-Name: Mariana Soultanova Author-X-Name-First: Mariana Author-X-Name-Last: Soultanova Author-Name: Alessia Usai Author-X-Name-First: Alessia Author-X-Name-Last: Usai Author-Name: Eduardo Medeiros Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Medeiros Author-Name: Tomasz Szulc Author-X-Name-First: Tomasz Author-X-Name-Last: Szulc Author-Name: Marco Trienes Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Trienes Author-Name: Annika Jaansoo Author-X-Name-First: Annika Author-X-Name-Last: Jaansoo Author-Name: Emily Lange Author-X-Name-First: Emily Author-X-Name-Last: Lange Author-Name: Gökhan Yalcin Author-X-Name-First: Gökhan Author-X-Name-Last: Yalcin Author-Name: Gordon Modro Author-X-Name-First: Gordon Author-X-Name-Last: Modro Author-Name: Jean-Marc Venineaux Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Marc Author-X-Name-Last: Venineaux Title: Future research on European Union Cohesion Policy: a Master Class during the OPEN DAYS 2014 Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 185-204 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1013151 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1013151 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:185-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1014062_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: L.G. Horlings Author-X-Name-First: L.G. Author-X-Name-Last: Horlings Title: Values in place; A value-oriented approach toward sustainable place-shaping Abstract: Our starting point in this conceptual paper is the assumption that place-based approaches can contribute to the sustainable development of communities and regions. In order to enhance sustainable development, adaptations to vulnerabilities and unsustainability require a more place-based approach, using local resources, people’s capacities and the distinctiveness of places for sustainable development. Our aim is to understand how processes of sustainable place-shaping are influenced by human values, rooted in culture. Culture is constructed and plays a mediating role between people and their environment, influencing people’s intentions, way of life, sense of place, practices, norms and rules. In its variety, culture is one of the sources as well as an outcome of distinctiveness between places. Transformation to sustainability is not only driven by practices and political structures, but also by beliefs, values, worldviews and paradigms that influence attitudes and actions. The paper shows how values have been interpreted in different ways in various bodies of literature, as abstract principles and in an instrumental way. Values are not self-standing concepts but are intertwined, context-determined, culturally varied and connected to how we see our self and how we perceive our environment. It is argued that development and engagement of participants’ values can build co-creative capacity in place-based development aimed at sustainability. A distinction is made between an economic, intentional and symbolic approach. A value-oriented approach can provide a more in-depth insight into what people appreciate, feel responsible for and are willing to commit to in the context of their place. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 257-274 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1014062 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1014062 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:257-274 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1016097_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Michael Steiner Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Steiner Author-Name: Franz Prettenthaler Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Prettenthaler Title: Creativity reconsidered - so your firm is creative, but how much? A trans-sectoral and continuous approach to creative industries Abstract: The paper addresses the problem of conceptualization and operationalization of creative industries. It gives a short review of existing approaches and concepts and points to their limits. It suggests new ways of defining creative industries by emphasizing two aspects: the trans-sectoral character of creativity: it is not sectors that are creative per se; and that creativity has to be conceived along a continuum. On the basis of different characteristics of activities, products and services of firms, an index of creativity ranging from not creative to very creative is developed. A case study based on a survey of firms shows that there is a broad range of creative behaviour and that most firms are creative to at least some degree. This leads to new options for future research and for the analysis of spatial differences as well as to a new focus for policies in support of creativity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 275-289 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1016097 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1016097 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:275-289 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1016098_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Cathy Hughes Author-X-Name-First: Cathy Author-X-Name-Last: Hughes Author-Name: Cath Jackson Author-X-Name-First: Cath Author-X-Name-Last: Jackson Title: Death of the high street: identification, prevention, reinvention Abstract: Location is of paramount importance within the retail sector, yet defining locational obsolescence remains overlooked, despite significant concerns over the viability of parts of the complex sector. This paper reviews the existing literature and, through this, explores retail locational obsolescence, including the multi-spatial nature of the driving forces that range from the global economy, local markets and submarkets, to individual property-specific factors; and, crucially, the need to disentangle locational obsolescence from other important concepts such as depreciation and functional obsolescence that are often mistakenly used. Through this, a conceptual model, definition and diagnostic criteria are presented to guide future studies, policy development and the allocation of resources. Importantly, three stages are presented to enable the operationalization of the model, essential to future academic and industry studies as well as the ongoing development of policy in this economically important, complex and contentious area. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 237-256 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1016098 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1016098 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:237-256 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1019956_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Martin Quinn Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Quinn Title: The impact of place on policy outcomes Abstract: This paper explores the impact of place on policy outcomes by examining the implementation of economic development policy in the East Midlands of England. To do so it poses two questions: does the East Midlands meet any of the criteria that might be used to define a region and does this matter for the implementation of policy. As states look to establish new areas to attract EU regional funds, the nature of a region needs to be considered carefully. The paper argues that the idea of functionality is key to the coherence of a region and the subsequent success or failure of policy initiatives at the regional level. Regions which lack economic, cultural, or political cohesion will struggle to build governance networks and attract the involvement of the public and private sectors in policy initiatives. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 230-236 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1019956 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1019956 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:230-236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1031956_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Corrigendum Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 229-229 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1031956 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1031956 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:229-229 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1034293_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Angelika Krehl Author-X-Name-First: Angelika Author-X-Name-Last: Krehl Title: Urban spatial structure: an interaction between employment and built-up volumes Abstract: This paper employs socioeconomic and remote sensing data to develop a novel approach to analysing the morphological urban spatial structure in select German city-regions. Furthermore, the suggested multidimensional procedure facilitates the analysis of the implications of different urban spatial structures in terms of physical urban form. All analyses are conducted on the spatial scale of 1 km² grid cells to allow for spatially detailed results and to account for intra-municipality differences in the urban spatial structures in the study regions. The results indicate fundamental differences among the study regions’ distribution of employees and built-up volumes and, as a result, among their urban spatial structures. Both employees and built-up volumes are found to be highly spatially clustered primarily within the core cities but with notable exceptions, which thus qualifies the regions as polycentric. This finding is consistent with prior research but also reveals that built-up volumes can be understood as physical manifestations of proximity advantages to which firms and employees are subject. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 290-308 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1034293 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1034293 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:290-308 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1034294_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Christina Culwick Author-X-Name-First: Christina Author-X-Name-Last: Culwick Author-Name: Graeme Gotz Author-X-Name-First: Graeme Author-X-Name-Last: Gotz Author-Name: Samy Katumba Author-X-Name-First: Samy Author-X-Name-Last: Katumba Author-Name: Guy Trangoš Author-X-Name-First: Guy Author-X-Name-Last: Trangoš Author-Name: Chris Wray Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Wray Title: Mobility patterns in the Gauteng City-Region, South Africa Abstract: A key factor in understanding a city-region is the daily flows of people between its constituent parts. Mapping of the commuter field may help delineate the functional extent of the region, clarify challenges of transport efficiency, access and affordability, and reveal the impact of key transport interventions over time. It may also elucidate social dimensions of life in the region, notably patterns of inequality between groups. Data from the Gauteng City-Region Observatory’s (GCRO) 2013 Quality of Life Survey were used to map trips to work made by white and (separately) African respondents. The maps illustrate the functional extent of the city-region as well as ongoing racial disparities in geographic access-to-work opportunities in a region historically patterned by apartheid spatial forms. While there is significant continuity from the past, there are also some surprising new trends. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 309-311 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1034294 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1034294 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:309-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1037863_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Mikko Weckroth Author-X-Name-First: Mikko Author-X-Name-Last: Weckroth Author-Name: Teemu Kemppainen Author-X-Name-First: Teemu Author-X-Name-Last: Kemppainen Author-Name: Jens Fyhn Lykke Sørensen Author-X-Name-First: Jens Fyhn Lykke Author-X-Name-Last: Sørensen Title: Predicting the gross domestic product (GDP) of 289 NUTS regions in Europe with subjective indicators for human and social capital Abstract: Most of the aggregate-level analyses of the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to the measures of national gross domestic product (GDP) and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS (Nomenclature des Unités Territoriales Statistiques) regions in Europe and replacing the simple life satisfaction measure with measures of active human functioning. We suggest that the measures of personal and social well-being, as they are operationalized in the 6th Round of the European Social Survey (ESS) questionnaire, can be treated as subjective indicators for social and human capital and, thereby, can be associated with the regional level GDP in cross-sectional analysis. The empirical analysis shows that the indicator for ‘social trust’ appears to have a positive and significant correlation with regional GDP. The analysis also distinguishes another form of social capital; ‘social contact and support’, reflecting the relative frequency and quantity of social support, which also shows a positive relationship with regional GDP. Concerning subjective human capital, the strongest predictor for regional GDP appears to be the aggregated sense of ‘competence and meaning’ in the regions. These effects proved robust after including the objective control variables (population density, intramural research and development (R&D) expenditure, share of tertiary-educated population and employment). Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 312-331 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1037863 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1037863 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:312-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1039568_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Dimitra Komninaki Author-X-Name-First: Dimitra Author-X-Name-Last: Komninaki Title: Regional innovation systems in peripheral regions: insights from western Greece Abstract: Despite the widespread popularity of the regional innovation system (RIS) concept, its details remain relatively underspecified, while most studies focus on the attributes of a handful of ‘ideal type regions’. This makes it difficult to explore how economically weak regions are succeeding in developing their potentially missing RIS elements. By investigating a peripheral region in Greece, this paper argues for deeper interaction among innovation actors and develops a five-dimension conceptual framework useful in analysing bottlenecks to regional innovation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 332-340 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1039568 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1039568 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:332-340 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1044020_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Eduardo Oliveira Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Oliveira Title: Constructing regional advantage in branding the cross-border Euroregion Galicia–northern Portugal Abstract: This paper employs a constructing regional advantage (CRA) approach in respect of examining the potential of joint branding strategies intended to position and give visibility to cross-border regions. The CRA concept is introduced here to improve understanding about the empirical significance of a branding strategy through cross-border relatedness, differentiated knowledge bases and policy platforms. It also aims to contribute to the academic debate on region branding. The case study focuses on the Euroregion composed of Galicia in north-west Spain and northern Portugal (GNP). Findings show that the combination of the key economic domains in which GNP excels will echo the cross-border advantage and strengthen a joint region branding strategy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 341-349 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1044020 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1044020 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:341-349 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1046908_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Igor Calzada Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Calzada Title: Benchmarking future city-regions beyond nation-states Abstract: This paper argues that new city-regional configurations are emerging and establishing a regional order beyond nation-states, both as a consequence of certain nationalistic political devolution claims and due to the economic renewal and nation-state re-scaling trend advocated by the ‘new regionalism’. Based on the author’s findings, which elucidate the distinction between four nationalistic (Scotland, Catalonia, Basque Country and Iceland) and four non-nationalistic city-region cases (Oresund, Liverpool/Manchester, Dublin and Portland), this paper highlights that there is no single model for city-regions and emphasizes that this trend has become increasingly complex due to its wide range of causes: political devolution and nation-state rescaling processes (Scotland, Catalonia, Basque Country, Liverpool and Manchester), flow of commuters (Oresund), democratic regeneration (Iceland), and economic renewal (Dublin and Portland).This paper benchmarks eight city-regions by systemically investigating their social innovation processes to understand better their dynamics beyond their respective nation-states. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 351-362 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1046908 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1046908 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:351-362 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1052225_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Erratum Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 350-350 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1052225 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1052225 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:350-350 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1053515_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Florian Koch Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Koch Title: City-regions and their role in the Euro-Latin American relations Abstract: This paper argues that a new agenda for the relations between the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is necessary, and that city regions can play an important role in it. Due to the shortcomings of the previous interregional strategy and the futile discussion if Latin America follows the European integration model, this new agenda should focus more on triangular and decentralized forms of cooperation aid, trade issues, and the knowledge transfer of poverty- and polarization-reduction strategies. Based on the foreign policy approaches of two Colombian case studies (the city-regions of Barranquilla and Medellin), it is shown that the international activities of Latin American city-regions can open new perspectives for EU–LAC relations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 363-370 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1053515 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1053515 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:363-370 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1054420_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Graham Clarke Author-X-Name-First: Graham Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke Author-Name: Christopher Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Author-Name: Mark Birkin Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Birkin Title: The emerging geography of e-commerce in British retailing Abstract: This paper explores the growth of e-commerce in British grocery retailing and examines the spatial variations in e-commerce usage. The main data source is a large commercial consumer survey (Acxiom’s Research Opinion Data) rarely used by academics to date. Using these data in combination with census data, the paper addresses a number of key questions. After outlining key trends in the dataset on e-commerce usage (by product and over time) the first research question is: How do e-commerce purchases vary by geodemographic group? To answer this question, we explore e-commerce usage by age, sex and social class. The second key question is: Does e-commerce usage vary by type of geographical region? Thus, we explore variations in usage for urban and rural areas. The dynamics of urban–rural diffusion are also addressed here – by examining, in addition, the spread of broadband use across Britain. The last question is: To what degree do e-commerce sales vary by access to physical stores? This is addressed by examining consumers’ home locations in relation to geographical accessibility. The results show that age and income are crucial demographic discriminators of e-commerce usage, as is rural location versus urban, and distance from physical stores. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 371-391 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1054420 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1054420 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:371-391 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1063448_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Andrea Dittrich-Wesbuer Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Dittrich-Wesbuer Author-Name: Annette Krön Author-X-Name-First: Annette Author-X-Name-Last: Krön Author-Name: Alexander Mayr Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Mayr Title: Site effects: assessing the fiscal, social and ecological costs of planned developments Abstract: To achieve a more sustainable urban development it is necessary that decision-makers and others are able to understand the impacts of planned projects. To support this understanding a significant number of ‘impact assessment tools’ have been developed to facilitate decision-making for urban development. However, many of these tools have a rather narrow scope when looking at assessment areas or spatial scope. On that background, the research project RegioProjektCheck set out to develop an impact analysis tool with a broadened scope. Although the ambitious objectives had to be modified for some subject areas, the toolbox created can be seen as a starting point for a new generation of impact assessment tools that enable an integrated assessment. A new approach has also been attempted with wide distribution of the toolbox, providing free use and further technical development to anyone. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 392-407 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1063448 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1063448 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:392-407 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1064012_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Eirini Kasioumi Author-X-Name-First: Eirini Author-X-Name-Last: Kasioumi Title: Emerging planning approaches in airport areas: the case of Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Abstract: The expansion of international airports creates conflicts in their surrounding territories, but also provides opportunities for economic development. This article examines the recent evolution of spatial planning practice for the area of Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport in France. It identifies a shift towards airport-centred discourses that prioritize urban development projects. In examining the motivations for and implications of this shift, it demonstrates the benefits of a greater attention to the airport area and the risks of employing normative models. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 408-414 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1064012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1064012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:408-414 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1065758_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Milana A. Korotka Author-X-Name-First: Milana A. Author-X-Name-Last: Korotka Title: Proximity factors influencing academics’ decisions to cooperate with industrial organizations Abstract: Stakeholders within regional innovative systems tend to emphasize universities’ roles as territorial actors and encourage them to maximize university–industry cooperation inside the region. However, where universities are better connected to external partners, their connections may be more naturally focused out of the region. This article assesses the role of proximity in academics’ decisions to collaborate with business partners, and the circumstances under which local partners might be chosen over distant partners. The hypothesis of this study is that proximity may drive stronger university–industry connectivity. Using a case study of five research institutes of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, I argue that geographical proximity is not a prerequisite for a university–industry interaction inside a region, whereas the other types of proximity play a significant role in building local partnerships. This has important implications for improving the connectedness between academics and their industrial partners at the regional level. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 415-423 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1065758 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1065758 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:415-423 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1066266_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Kevin Ward Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Ward Author-Name: Janet Newman Author-X-Name-First: Janet Author-X-Name-Last: Newman Author-Name: Peter John Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: John Author-Name: Nik Theodore Author-X-Name-First: Nik Author-X-Name-Last: Theodore Author-Name: Julie Macleavy Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Macleavy Author-Name: Allan Cochrane Author-X-Name-First: Allan Author-X-Name-Last: Cochrane Title: Whatever happened to local government? A review symposium Abstract: This collection of contributions uses the 21nd anniversary of the publication of Allan Cochrane’s Whatever Happened to Local Government? (1993) to reflect on the state of contemporary English local government, and in the process assess the book’s intellectual legacy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 435-457 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1066266 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1066266 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:435-457 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1066267_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Elin Charles-Edwards Author-X-Name-First: Elin Author-X-Name-Last: Charles-Edwards Author-Name: Tom Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Author-Name: Nikola Sander Author-X-Name-First: Nikola Author-X-Name-Last: Sander Title: Visualizing Australian internal and international migration flows Abstract: Migration research in Australia has tended to focus on internal migration, partly due to the paucity of international migration statistics at the regional scale, especially for emigration. In this regional graphic, internal and international migration flows for 50 major regions of Australia are presented using census data on internal migration and immigration over the one-year interval before the 2011 Census together with new estimates of regional emigration. Because of the difficulties of mapping migration flows for a country with huge variations in the geographical size of regions, a new visualization tool – the circular migration plot – is employed. It enables a more complete, and more interpretable, summary picture of the spatial pattern of internal and international migration in Australia to be depicted than has been possible previously. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 432-434 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1066267 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1066267 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:432-434 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1066707_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Sangwoo Shin Author-X-Name-First: Sangwoo Author-X-Name-Last: Shin Title: Regional research and technology organization and some challenges in Korea Abstract: This paper explores the development of the regional research and technology organization in Gyeonggi province, South Korea. It finds that rather than following a top-down approach, Gyeonggi policy-makers are taking a new bottom-up approach, which emphasizes the detailed analysis of local industry needs. The fresh idea presented by this paper is that it is necessary to understand the tensions between top-down traditions and bottom-up aspirations in regional innovation systems. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 424-431 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1066707 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1066707 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:424-431 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1067151_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Daniel Arribas-Bel Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Arribas-Bel Title: The spoken postcodes Abstract: The current Oxford English Dictionary defines a neighbourhood as ‘[a] district or portion of a town, city, or country, esp. considered in reference to the character or circumstances of its inhabitants’. However, a large part of quantitative urban analysis relies on administrative boundaries, such as postcodes, as an approximation of true neighbourhoods. This regional graphic explores the possibility of redefining internal boundaries of a city through the combination of new sources of data, statistics and computation. Using the language of a sample of georeferenced tweets in the Dutch city of Amsterdam, in combination with a regionalization algorithm that groups similar continuous areas, the official postcodes are redrawn into those based on their spoken characteristics. The result is a very different urban landscape that is likely to encapsulate better substantive differences between parts of the city. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 458-461 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1067151 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1067151 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:458-461 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1072053_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Anita Fuzi Author-X-Name-First: Anita Author-X-Name-Last: Fuzi Title: Co-working spaces for promoting entrepreneurship in sparse regions: the case of South Wales Abstract: Co-working spaces are creative and energetic places where small firms, freelancers and start-ups, who have become tired of the isolation of their home offices and the distractions of their local coffee shops, can interact, share, build and co-create. Based on the existing literature and under the wider definition of co-working spaces, IndyCube and the Welsh Innovation Centre for Enterprise (Welsh ICE) can be identified as such in South Wales. These spaces provide support (moral, emotional, professional, financial) and facilities (infrastructure) to enable entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses. This paper aims to provide an empirical exploration of whether co-working spaces can promote entrepreneurship in regions with sparse entrepreneurial environments by creating the hard infrastructure particularly designed in such a way that the soft infrastructure necessary for entrepreneurship can also emerge. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 462-469 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1072053 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1072053 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:462-469 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1075898_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Giuseppe Calignano Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Author-X-Name-Last: Calignano Author-Name: Cosimo Alessandro Quarta Author-X-Name-First: Cosimo Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Quarta Title: The persistence of regional disparities in Italy through the lens of the European Union nanotechnology network Abstract: The knowledge-based economy has created new opportunities for marginal regions, even though some areas in advanced economies still show unbalanced development patterns. This article uses the Italian partnerships created within the nanotechnology projects funded under the European Union’s Sixth (FP6) and Seventh (FP7) Framework Programmes to assess the spatial relationships and verify the impact of innovation dynamics on regional re-industrialization processes in the country. It shows the presence of centralized networks that have reinforced the polarization in innovation activities in the traditionally most advanced areas of the country and reveals how new high-technology industries – such as nanotechnology – are hardly a means for marginal regions to break away from their development paths. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 470-479 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1075898 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1075898 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:470-479 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1085328_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Fernando Ortiz-Moya Author-X-Name-First: Fernando Author-X-Name-Last: Ortiz-Moya Author-Name: Nieves Moreno Author-X-Name-First: Nieves Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno Title: Filming industrial Japan: Kitakyushu, rise and decline of the iron town Abstract: This paper investigates how cinema has represented the two sides of the industrial expansion and contraction process in the context of a peripheral shrinking region. It explores how the cinematic vision of regions helps one to understand the processes of spatial development that resulted from socio-economic changes. Classic and contemporary filmmakers have shown the social problems associated with industrialization as well as deindustrialization. The paper focuses on the Northern Kyushu Region in Japan, which due to its own history epitomizes the problematic that affects Japan’s peripheral territories – those outside the Pacific Industrial Belt. Through this analysis, it is argued that films can reveal aspects that other kinds of data cannot convey and, therefore, the cinematic analysis of regions has the potential to identify and reveal problems that otherwise would have remained unnoticed. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 480-488 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1085328 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1085328 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:480-488 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1085329_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Louise Kempton Author-X-Name-First: Louise Author-X-Name-Last: Kempton Title: Delivering smart specialization in peripheral regions: the role of Universities Abstract: Successful mobilization of the resources of universities can have a positive effect on regional economies; even more so in peripheral regions. The role of universities in regional development, innovation and growth comes into even sharper focus with the emergence of ‘smart specialization’ strategies, an ex-ante conditionality for accessing European Structural Funds from 2014. However, partnerships between universities and regions can fail to achieve their early ambitions, often due to a lack of understanding of each side’s drivers and barriers for cooperation. The collaboration between Region Värmland and Karlstad University in Sweden demonstrates a systemic and broad-based view of innovation that fits well within the policy framework of European and national innovation strategies. While recognizing the complexities and tensions inherent in such collaborations, this case study provides valuable insights for other European universities, regions and policy-makers in peripheral places that are seeking to work more closely to support smart specialization. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 489-496 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1085329 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1085329 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:489-496 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1088792_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Proinnsias Breathnach Author-X-Name-First: Proinnsias Author-X-Name-Last: Breathnach Author-Name: Chris van Egeraat Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: van Egeraat Author-Name: Declan Curran Author-X-Name-First: Declan Author-X-Name-Last: Curran Title: Regional economic resilience in Ireland: the roles of industrial structure and foreign inward investment Abstract: This paper examines the resilience of Irish regions during the course of the post-2007 economic crisis, focusing specifically on employment change in firms in receipt of assistance from the Irish government’s enterprise development agencies. The paper classifies both regions and sectors in terms of their employment performance both before and during the recession and employs a number of techniques to assess the roles of sectoral composition, firm nationality and other factors in shaping the recession’s regional impact. While nationality mix is significant, sectoral composition is seen as having a more important impact on regional employment performance. Other factors also have an important role in some regions, but their precise nature remains unknown. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 497-517 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1088792 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1088792 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:497-517 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1095112_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Timothy R. Wojan Author-X-Name-First: Timothy R. Author-X-Name-Last: Wojan Author-Name: Kathryn R. Dotzel Author-X-Name-First: Kathryn R. Author-X-Name-Last: Dotzel Author-Name: Sarah A. Low Author-X-Name-First: Sarah A. Author-X-Name-Last: Low Title: Decomposing regional patenting rates: how the composition factor confounds the rate factor Abstract: Patents per capita is a widely used innovation indicator. Rural areas generally perform very poorly using this metric, suggesting that inventive activity that leads to patents is an urban phenomenon. However, newly available inventor-disambiguated patenting data demonstrate that inventions per inventor are roughly equal across urban and rural areas. A critical assessment of the patents-per-capita measure questions its construct validity. An alternative measure is constructed that empirically identifies a plausible ‘inventive class’ and does not confound the patenting rate with irrelevant information. This allows the decomposition of overall patenting rates into a compositional factor and a rate factor which leads to a more meaningful regional comparison of patenting productivity. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 535-551 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1095112 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1095112 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:535-551 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1099464_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Renato Garcia Author-X-Name-First: Renato Author-X-Name-Last: Garcia Author-Name: Veneziano Araujo Author-X-Name-First: Veneziano Author-X-Name-Last: Araujo Author-Name: Suelene Mascarini Author-X-Name-First: Suelene Author-X-Name-Last: Mascarini Author-Name: Emerson Gomes Santos Author-X-Name-First: Emerson Author-X-Name-Last: Gomes Santos Author-Name: Ariana Costa Author-X-Name-First: Ariana Author-X-Name-Last: Costa Title: Looking at both sides: how specific characteristics of academic research groups and firms affect the geographical distance of university–industry linkages Abstract: This paper examines factors that affect the geographical distance of university–industry linkages by analysing specific characteristics of both sides of the collaboration – firms and universities. Previous studies have provided important evidence related to this issue; however, they have used data from either firms or universities. Therefore, this paper contributes to existing research on this issue by using information on both collaboration partners. For this purpose, data from the Directory of Research Groups in Brazil are used to estimate an empirical model. The main results indicate that firms with higher absorptive capacity and larger firms tend to collaborate with research groups that are more geographically distant. Further, on the university side, high-performance and larger research groups tend to attract firms that are more geographically distant as collaboration partners. Long-distance collaborations therefore usually occur when firms require high absorptive capacity and when they cannot find high-quality local universities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 518-534 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1099464 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1099464 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:518-534 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1100094_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Claire Bloomfield Author-X-Name-First: Claire Author-X-Name-Last: Bloomfield Title: Putting sustainable development into practice: hospital food procurement in Wales Abstract: A case study of hospital food procurement demonstrates how change is being brought about to meet the seemingly conflicting aims of sustainability and low cost within the perceived constraints of European Union procurement regulations. The Welsh government, a pioneer in embedding sustainable development into its constitution, seeks to put those principles into practice by using public services to support the regional economy. Eschewing competition, it has structured the National Health Service (NHS) to remain in public ownership, devolving delivery to subordinate bodies to meet patients’ needs, whilst collaborating in the development of more integrated demand-side structures. A case study of the 2012 yoghurt contract demonstrates how the integration of the Nutritional Care Pathway (NCP), nutritional standards and an All Wales menu framework have enabled relocalization of the yoghurt supply chain, whilst enabling innovation further to support the local economy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 552-558 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1100094 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1100094 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:552-558 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1121030_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Regional Studies Association Awards Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 559-559 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1121030 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1121030 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:559-559 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1121031_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 560-560 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1121031 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1121031 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:560-560 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_979433_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Korneliusz Pylak Author-X-Name-First: Korneliusz Author-X-Name-Last: Pylak Title: Changing innovation process models: a chance to break out of path dependency for less developed regions Abstract: The aim of this paper is to discover how regions can change innovation process models and whether less developed regions can, in this sense, break out of the negative path dependency. This paper is one of the few to investigate path dependency from a regional rather than from an industry or product perspective. The application of Ward metrics revealed seven innovation process models that can be combined into three groups according to different regional circumstances, in which: (1) knowledge-intensive services are the main carriers of the innovation processes, (2) innovation processes are mostly expressed through manufacturing, and (3) transitions from one type of innovation process into another are the dominant characteristics. Results indicate that there are indeed many examples of path dependency breakthroughs. They occur mostly in the transition group, and could evolve into either one of the other two groups. The research revealed two types of manufacturing regions, namely low-tech and high-tech. It also confirmed that less developed regions fall within the low-tech model called ‘primary-sector-based manufacturing regions’ and face difficulties when phasing into higher-tech models, e.g. only 4% of all transitions are from this model. It is therefore challenging to break out of a negative path dependency. Moreover, the research signified that the reasons for growth are model specific. Therefore, when aiming to achieve an innovation process model transition, regional policies should be tailored accordingly; thus, an evolutionary, staged process of regional policy would be worth researching further. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 46-72 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.979433 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.979433 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:46-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_983149_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Rob Kitchin Author-X-Name-First: Rob Author-X-Name-Last: Kitchin Author-Name: Tracey P. Lauriault Author-X-Name-First: Tracey P. Author-X-Name-Last: Lauriault Author-Name: Gavin McArdle Author-X-Name-First: Gavin Author-X-Name-Last: McArdle Title: Knowing and governing cities through urban indicators, city benchmarking and real-time dashboards Abstract: Since the mid-1990s a plethora of indicator projects have been developed and adopted by cities seeking to measure and monitor various aspects of urban systems. These have been accompanied by city benchmarking endeavours that seek to compare intra- and inter-urban performance. More recently, the data underpinning such projects have started to become more open to citizens, more real-time in nature generated through sensors and locative/social media, and displayed via interactive visualisations and dashboards that can be accessed via the internet. In this paper, we examine such initiatives arguing that they advance a narrowly conceived but powerful realist epistemology – the city as visualised facts – that is reshaping how managers and citizens come to know and govern cities. We set out how and to what ends indicator, benchmarking and dashboard initiatives are being employed by cities. We argue that whilst these initiatives often seek to make urban processes and performance more transparent and to improve decision making, they are also underpinned by a naive instrumental rationality, are open to manipulation by vested interests, and suffer from often unacknowledged methodological and technical issues. Drawing on our own experience of working on indicator and dashboard projects, we argue for a conceptual re-imaging of such projects as data assemblages – complex, politically-infused, socio-technical systems that, rather than reflecting cities, actively frame and produce them. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 6-28 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.983149 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.983149 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:6-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_987540_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Michael Batty Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Batty Title: A perspective on city dashboards Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 29-32 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.987540 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.987540 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:29-32 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_987541_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Meg Holden Author-X-Name-First: Meg Author-X-Name-Last: Holden Author-Name: Sara Moreno Pires Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno Pires Title: The minority report: social hope in next generation indicators work. Commentary on Rob Kitchin et al.’s ‘Knowing and governing cities through urban indicators, city benchmarking, and real-time dashboards’ Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 33-38 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.987541 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.987541 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:33-38 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_987542_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Matthew W. Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Matthew W. Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Title: Flashing lights in the quantified self-city-nation Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 39-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.987542 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.987542 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:39-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_990678_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alasdair Rae Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair Author-X-Name-Last: Rae Author-Name: Alex Singleton Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Singleton Title: Putting big data in its place: a Regional Studies and Regional Science perspective Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-5 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.990678 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.990678 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:1-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_991485_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Rob Kitchin Author-X-Name-First: Rob Author-X-Name-Last: Kitchin Author-Name: Tracey P. Lauriault Author-X-Name-First: Tracey P. Author-X-Name-Last: Lauriault Author-Name: Gavin McArdle Author-X-Name-First: Gavin Author-X-Name-Last: McArdle Title: Urban indicators and dashboards: epistemology, contradictions and power/knowledge Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 43-45 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.991485 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.991485 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:43-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_999107_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Marcin Dąbrowski Author-X-Name-First: Marcin Author-X-Name-Last: Dąbrowski Title: ‘Doing more with less’ or ‘doing less with less’? Assessing EU cohesion policy’s financial instruments for urban development Abstract: In the context of a severe economic crisis and austerity, new ideas were put forward to reform cohesion policy to enhance its effectiveness and the return on investment. Among them, financial engineering instruments, such as JESSICA, expected to offer a means to ‘do more with less’ in this difficult budgetary context. In the case of such instruments, EU funds are not offered as grants co-financing investment projects, but rather are used to provide repayable assistance to projects, a form of support. Such revolving funds approach is in stark contrast with the grant-based assistance typically offered as part of EU cohesion policy and was expected to increase the sustainability and effectiveness of interventions. But does it fulfil those expectations? This paper examines JESSICA through the conceptual lens of policy instruments literature. It verifies whether JESSICA is actually fit for its purpose of supporting sustainable urban development. It also gauges the impacts of instrument on the behaviour of the actors involved in its implementation at the sub-national level. The findings indicate that JESSICA is a flawed and overly complex instrument that instead of doing ‘more with less’ only allows for achieving ‘less with less’. However, it still exerts a positive influence on the sub-national authorities involved by promoting cross-sectoral interactions and facilitating learning. It also promotes a change in the approach to EU cohesion policy and public investment more generally, putting more emphasis on economic viability of investment. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 73-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.999107 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.999107 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:73-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_999108_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Eduardo Medeiros Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Medeiros Title: Territorial Impact Assessment and Cross-Border Cooperation Abstract: Impact Assessment procedures have gained increasing attention from the European Commission (EC), as fundamental tools in providing evidence of the potential impacts of European Union (EU) financed projects/programmes/policies. Yet, only recently, the Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) of EU directives and Policies have gained a broader support from the EC, as a result of pivotal contributions from several ESPON projects in producing adequate TIA techniques/tools/methods (TEQUILA, Quick Check, EATIA). In the meantime, these tools are being perfected, alongside others (like the TARGET_TIA), in order to provide a more efficient and broader analysis of the evaluated project/programme/policy territorial impacts. Furthermore, there is a general agreement that TIA needs to take on account the different territorial levels (EU, national, regional, local), and should be applied in specific sector policies/programmes, which require more holistic evaluation procedures, as they have a strong territorial dimension. This is clear in the case of the Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) programmes, due to their large scope of interventions on providing territorial development of the border areas, which in the EU encompass more that 60% of its territory. In light of this, this article proposes an adaptation of the TARGET_TIA technique to assess the territorial impacts of the CBC programmes, by focusing on the evaluation of the components of the CBC programmes specific goals: barrier effect reduction and territorial capital valorisation. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 97-115 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2014.999108 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2014.999108 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:97-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1007158_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Jos van den Broek Author-X-Name-First: Jos Author-X-Name-Last: van den Broek Author-Name: Huub Smulders Author-X-Name-First: Huub Author-X-Name-Last: Smulders Title: Institutional hindrances in cross-border regional innovation systems Abstract: This paper takes an institutional approach to the development of cross-border regional innovation systems (CBRISs). It argues that the nation-state border is expressed through institutional hindrances that negatively influence cross-border cooperation processes. The concept of multilevel institutional architecture (MLIA) is introduced to improve understandings of the border as the nexus between institutions engaged in regional innovation systems. Through a case study analysis of the Venlo-Lower Rhine region, the paper investigates how a nation-state border impedes the build up of systemic cross-border relations that underpin the development of CBRISs. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 116-122 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1007158 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1007158 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:116-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1007159_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Gianpiero Torrisi Author-X-Name-First: Gianpiero Author-X-Name-Last: Torrisi Author-Name: Andy Pike Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Pike Author-Name: John Tomaney Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Tomaney Author-Name: Vassilis Tselios Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis Author-X-Name-Last: Tselios Title: (Re-)exploring the link between decentralization and regional disparities in Italy Abstract: Previous research has suggested that after 1996 devolution caused a reduction in regional disparities in Italy. However the analysis presented here suggests that the decline in regional disparities in Italy between 1996 and 2006 was driven by population dynamics and, to some extent, by the loss of competitiveness and consequent poor relative performance of northern regions. We conclude that links between devolution and the reduction of spatial disparities is unproven and its benefits are temporally and geographically uneven. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 123-140 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1007159 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1007159 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:123-140 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1010225_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Thomas Panagopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Panagopoulos Author-Name: Maria Helena Guimarães Author-X-Name-First: Maria Helena Author-X-Name-Last: Guimarães Author-Name: Ana Paula Barreira Author-X-Name-First: Ana Paula Author-X-Name-Last: Barreira Title: Influences on citizens’ policy preferences for shrinking cities: a case study of four Portuguese cities Abstract: Population decline in cities (‘shrinking cities’) is an increasing international phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to determine citizens’ policy preferences for tackling shrinkage and to ascertain whether different causes of shrinkage lead to different preferences, on the basis of which we identify viable urban regeneration strategies to implement in Portugal’s shrinking cities. This information was obtained by a face-to-face questionnaire survey of 701 residents in four case study cities, who were asked to rank five types of policy: economic revival, safety and accessibility, public services, building interventions, and environmental actions. The results show no differences between cities regarding the policy identified by residents as being most important (economic revival). However, differences between cities in the second and third most important policies were observed and are linked to the particularities of shrinkage in each city. Furthermore, we found a strong link between the ranking of the policies and the demographic and socioeconomic profiles of respondents, which also differ between cities. Younger respondents ranked economic revival higher, whereas older residents ranked safety and accessibility higher. Building rehabilitation was ranked as important mostly by lower-income residents, whereas improvement in public services was identified as being important by the residents of smaller cities in the interior of the country. Giving voice to citizens and allowing them input into policy options appears to be of value for defining the most appropriate policies to apply in shrinking cities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 141-170 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1010225 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1010225 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:141-170 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1013149_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Shiyun Ling Author-X-Name-First: Shiyun Author-X-Name-Last: Ling Author-Name: Jorge Tiago Martins Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Tiago Author-X-Name-Last: Martins Title: Learning and innovation in network: online communicative practices of a local enterprise partnership sector group Abstract: In 2013 the Sheffield City Region’s Creative and Digital Industries sector group initiated a method of open consultation where any individual or organization could use an online discussion forum to engage in the co-production of the region’s Economic Strategy and Growth Plan. This empirical study examines how regional actors used that online discussion forum to reflect on the range of challenges and practices that directly affect the local enterprise partnership’s development agenda. Participants in the forum were predominantly focused on sharing and co-creating knowledge. In particular, it was found that the postings expressed concerns surrounding three main themes: regional infrastructure for inter-organizational learning, networking events and routes for internationalization. The study provides a renewed theoretical and practical view of network learning, especially related to innovation activities in a regional context. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 171-184 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1013149 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1013149 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:171-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1013150_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Andrew Beer Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Author-Name: Laurence Lester Author-X-Name-First: Laurence Author-X-Name-Last: Lester Title: Institutional thickness and institutional effectiveness: developing regional indices for policy and practice in Australia Abstract: There has been considerable discussion of the role of institutions in development, including regional development, since the early 1990s with the work of North in 1990 followed by major interventions from Amin and Thrift in 1995 and other researchers. In large measure this set of literature has focused on evaluating and describing the ‘institutional thickness’ of places, the relative richness or poverty of institutional structures that support economic activity and growth. While much discussed, this concept has struggled when considered quantitatively. Some authors have noted that regions can have too much institutional thickness, with agencies and government entities ‘crowding’ each other out and distracting growth efforts. Recently Rodriguez-Pose in 2013 has argued that there is a need to reconsider this set of concepts, and that there should be a focus on institutional effectiveness, not thickness. This paper takes up the challenge of measuring both institutional thickness and institutional effectiveness for Australia, producing an index at the level of local government areas (LGAs) and the territories of Regional Development Australia Committees. This disaggregated picture of effectiveness results in insights that highlight the importance of state structures, the relative advantage of metropolitan location, the pivotal role of political influence and the capacity of regions to shape their own future. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 205-228 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1013150 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1013150 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:205-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1262277_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ming Wei Author-X-Name-First: Ming Author-X-Name-Last: Wei Author-Name: Jiangping Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Jiangping Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Title: Central Places of Transit Riders: A Visual Story of Brisbane, Australia Abstract: This study uses smartcard data to quantify and visualize the most popular destinations (‘central places’) and corridors of transit riders in Brisbane, an emerging global city in Queensland, Australia. It shows that the number and distribution of central places vary significantly across different periods of the day and so are their respective scopes of influence, which are measured by a standard deviational ellipse, and the associated transit corridors, which connect visitors of central places to other locales in the city. As a whole, this study shows the potential of smartcard data in efficiently verifying and even extending existing economic geography theories, models or concepts. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 531-533 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1262277 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1262277 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:531-533 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1255564_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: David Beel Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Beel Author-Name: Martin Jones Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Author-Name: Ian Rees Jones Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Rees Jones Title: Regulation, governance and agglomeration: making links in city-region research Abstract: This paper provides an overview and synthesis of debates pertaining to the development of city-regions and their applicability to the UK space economy. The purpose is to make links to advance both international academic debates and realpolitik policy knowledge concerns. The paper, firstly, traces the multifarious and at times disconnected academic discussions around the concepts of regionalism, city-regionalism and localism in the UK. Secondly, it considers the contemporary academic debates on the city-region, focusing in particular on those applicable to the current UK policy context. Given that city-regions are increasingly seen as the principal (and often unquestioned) consolidating spatial scale for economic and social development, the paper, thirdly, probes on the silent and missing aspects of the prescribed city-region approach, connecting and contributing in turn to concerns with building inclusive-growth. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 509-530 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1255564 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1255564 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:509-530 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1244775_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Jiangping Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Jiangping Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Name: Neil Sipe Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Sipe Author-Name: Iderlina Mateo-Babiano Author-X-Name-First: Iderlina Author-X-Name-Last: Mateo-Babiano Author-Name: Warren Rowe Author-X-Name-First: Warren Author-X-Name-Last: Rowe Title: Shaping travels and land use with bus rapid transit: a developed city’s visualisation with smartcard and census data Abstract: Transit and land-use integration is regarded as one of the most important means of avoiding or reducing car dependence and urban sprawl, which are thought as major culprits of unsustainability. In developing countries, rail rapid transit could be too expensive to become the predominant component of their respective systems. However, bus rapid transit (BRT) as one of the cheapest forms of mass transit is a better alternative for those countries. In developing countries, BRT has transformed numerous cities such as Curitiba, Brazil; Bogota, Columbia; and Guangzhou, China. Can BRT have the same transformative impacts for cities in developed countries as well? Can the impacts of BRT be visualized using the transit population? Given that few cities in developed countries have BRT and ridership data of BRT are not always available, the above questions have not been well addressed before. To answer these two questions, we analysed smartcard swipes over a five-day weekday period (11–15 March 2013) for Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, and reconstructed trip trajectories of those 255,887 transit riders. We found that BRT serves a significant percentage and number of travellers, thus shaping travel behaviour and ultimately land use – when transit ridership and rate of transit usage are used as indicators. This is a significant achievement in Australia, a country known for its car dependence and urban sprawl. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 506-508 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1244775 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1244775 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:506-508 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1258324_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Marte C. W. Solheim Author-X-Name-First: Marte C. W. Author-X-Name-Last: Solheim Title: Foreign workers and international partners as channels to international markets in core, intermediate and peripheral regions Abstract: Past contributions stress that international ties in the form of foreign workers and international collaboration enable firms to be present in international markets by providing access to diverse knowledge, and professional and social networks. These mechanisms have, however, not undergone the same empirical scrutiny for firms in intermediate and peripheral regions. If firms in more peripheral regions are able to tap into the global economy using international channels, this has important implications, for example, for the localization decision of firms. The empirical analysis builds on linked employer–employee data (LEED) merged with community innovation survey (CIS) data. The results demonstrate that there is a positive association between international ties and international market presence for firms in core, intermediate and peripheral regions, demonstrating that peripheral regions are not detached from global processes. There are, however, slight different patterns observed, for example, indicating that different collaboration partners are used in order to reach international markets for firms in core, intermediate and peripheral regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 491-505 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1258324 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1258324 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:491-505 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1255856_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Mattia Casula Author-X-Name-First: Mattia Author-X-Name-Last: Casula Title: Between national constraints and the legacies of the past: explaining variations in inter-municipal cooperation in Italian regions Abstract: Despite the historical tradition of inter-municipal cooperation in several regions, the Italian policy maker has for the first time decided to oblige small municipalities to co-manage their basic functions. Although controversial because of its overly top-down logic, this provision is driving a “new” era of inter-municipal cooperation in Italian regions: around 70% of Italian municipalities must choose between a municipal union and a covenant in order to manage these functions. Regions can direct their municipalities towards different forms of inter-municipal cooperation with the use of monetary incentives, regulatory restrictions or persuasion. The paper develops an analytic framework to explore this process in two regional cases. The analysis highlights that despite the national constraints, the different regional strategies are increasingly conditioned by the legacies of the past. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 482-490 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1255856 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1255856 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:482-490 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1244774_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Sébastien Breau Author-X-Name-First: Sébastien Author-X-Name-Last: Breau Author-Name: Richard Saillant Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Saillant Title: Regional income disparities in Canada: exploring the geographical dimensions of an old debate Abstract: The existing literature on convergence in Canada largely ignores the underlying geographical dimensions of regional disparities. By using income measures developed from census micro-data files to analyze patterns of convergence across census divisions, we show that regional disparities are increasingly clustered across the Canadian space-economy along (1) East–West and (2) urban–rural gradients. Rural census divisions in the Eastern provinces, in particular, are showing increased signs of distress in terms of differences in levels and growth rates of incomes with other regions in the country. Such findings have important policy implications which are briefly discussed. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 463-481 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1244774 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1244774 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:463-481 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1244488_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Salvatore Pinna Author-X-Name-First: Salvatore Author-X-Name-Last: Pinna Title: Alternative Food Networks, agro-biodiversity and landscape protection: lessons from two rural parks Abstract: European agricultural landscapes are important for their capacity to preserve both biodiversity and historical and traditional values in rural and peri-urban spaces. Some studies have highlighted the influence that different production methods have in shaping landscapes and the role of policy in promoting their protection at different scales. This paper underlines the potential of the integration of food production into planning tools and regulations by looking at two rural regional parks in Italy and Spain through the role played by Alternative Food Networks in generating mutual benefits for farmers and for the organizations in charge of the parks. Insights from an analysis of farms’ websites and interviews are used to show how these parks represent good practices for preserving rural landscapes. The paper shows how ecological, social and spatial values in farmers’ behaviours represent driving forces that can contribute to a more effective preservation of landscapes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 455-462 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1244488 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1244488 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:455-462 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1243455_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Maja Savic Author-X-Name-First: Maja Author-X-Name-Last: Savic Title: What role for knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in de-industrialized regions? Abstract: This paper provides insights into the structural role that knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play in de-industrialized regions in the UK at a critical time of change. It establishes what contribution KIBS make to their regional economies in terms of exports to other regions in the UK as well as abroad, but also what is their role in providing support to other sectors in their respective regions. The paper draws evidence from a survey of KIBS SMEs in the North East and West Midlands conducted during the recent recession. The results exhibit a degree of wider generalizability to other regions, which may be characterized as de-industrialized. Results from the West Midlands and North East survey show that although KIBS play an important role in the local economic base of de-industrialized regions, they are not as important as their elite, tradable counterparts in global cities such as London. However, KIBS SMEs in the North East and West Midlands provide important support to their regional clients, many of which are in the declining manufacturing and public service sectors. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 445-454 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1243455 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1243455 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:445-454 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1243454_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Dane Anderton Author-X-Name-First: Dane Author-X-Name-Last: Anderton Title: Science in the city region: establishing Liverpool’s life science ecology Abstract: This article focuses on the development of soft and hard infrastructures to support a life science ecology in a peripheral European city region. Liverpool City Region has received almost £1.7bn in capital investment through the EU Cohesion Policy to redevelop the city region and reinvigorate its economy towards knowledge based industries. The analysis of the city regions life science ecology highlights the uneven development of hard and soft infrastructures. Due to the diversity of firms within the region it has proven difficult to establish soft infrastructure related to scientific knowledge. The outcome has led to soft infrastructures being more business support orientated rather than scientific knowledge based, reducing inter-firm connections on a product or service basis. The evidence shows that not all types of soft infrastructure emerge as an outcome of investment. Hence, policy makers need to provide a clearer narrative on their investments, focusing on fewer core competencies rather than breadth of activities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 437-444 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1243454 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1243454 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:437-444 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1239224_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Greg Thomas Author-X-Name-First: Greg Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas Title: The Royal Welsh Show: facilitating rural buzz Abstract: Agricultural shows are significant events for rural communities. Using the case study of the Royal Welsh Show, the largest event of its kind in Europe, this paper argues that agricultural shows can be seen as temporary knowledge clusters. By bringing together key rural actors, agricultural shows create temporary spaces for presentation and interaction between suppliers, producers and consumers, leading to distinct vertical and horizontal forms of knowledge exchange. Discussions take place between farmers, government and suppliers, creating trust and allowing for knowledge exchange to take place. At the same time, farmers can view and compare their stock and farming practices with that of other farmers, sharing best practice and allowing for new ideas to emerge and gain prominence in the agricultural industry. This interaction between different groups at agricultural shows creates a rural buzz, helping to maintain rural relations year round, eventually forming a community of practice. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 428-436 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1239224 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1239224 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:428-436 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1228474_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Fanny Sbaraglia Author-X-Name-First: Fanny Author-X-Name-Last: Sbaraglia Title: Who makes European Cohesion Policy: a practitioners’ learning perspective Abstract: Through the European Social Fund (ESF), the European Union subsidizes social inclusion and occupational trainee projects. This policy instrument is formulated by European Union institutions and implemented by regions through a call for projects which requires innovative actions and a result-oriented strategy. It is a key vantage point to observe sub-national implementation of an European Union policy instrument in a sub-national practitioner’s perspective, a topic under-investigated in the literature. For a project to receive funding, sub-national practitioners must take the European Union requirements (accounting standards, evidence of innovation etc.) and their social needs into account. Against this backdrop, this research tackles an original question: how can local practitioners adapt their policy actions to fit with European Union requirements? Taking the region of Wallonia in Belgium as a case study, the ESF implementation is considered as a specific policy process in sub-national policy sectors. Adopting an in-depth qualitative perspective, this research contends that it depends on practitioners’ learning, practices and experience of past applications, their specific socio-economic context and income maximization. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 420-427 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1228474 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1228474 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:420-427 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1229130_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ron Mahabir Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Mahabir Author-Name: Andrew Crooks Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Crooks Author-Name: Arie Croitoru Author-X-Name-First: Arie Author-X-Name-Last: Croitoru Author-Name: Peggy Agouris Author-X-Name-First: Peggy Author-X-Name-Last: Agouris Title: The study of slums as social and physical constructs: challenges and emerging research opportunities Abstract: Over 1 billion people currently live in slums, with the number of slum dwellers only expected to grow in the coming decades. The vast majority of slums are located in and around urban centres in the less economically developed countries, which are also experiencing greater rates of urbanization compared with more developed countries. This rapid rate of urbanization is cause for significant concern given that many of these countries often lack the ability to provide the infrastructure (e.g., roads and affordable housing) and basic services (e.g., water and sanitation) to provide adequately for the increasing influx of people into cities. While research on slums has been ongoing, such work has mainly focused on one of three constructs: exploring the socio-economic and policy issues; exploring the physical characteristics; and, lastly, those modelling slums. This paper reviews these lines of research and argues that while each is valuable, there is a need for a more holistic approach for studying slums to truly understand them. By synthesizing the social and physical constructs, this paper provides a more holistic synthesis of the problem, which can potentially lead to a deeper understanding and, consequently, better approaches for tackling the challenge of slums at the local, national and regional scales. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 399-419 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1229130 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1229130 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:399-419 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1209981_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Stewart Dunlop Author-X-Name-First: Stewart Author-X-Name-Last: Dunlop Author-Name: Sara Davies Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Davies Author-Name: Kim Swales Author-X-Name-First: Kim Author-X-Name-Last: Swales Title: Metropolitan misery: why do Scots live in ‘bad places to live’? Abstract: This paper uses data from the Scottish Household Survey to investigate urban–rural variations in life satisfaction in Scotland. It reviews the previous literature on spatial differences in life satisfaction and develops an econometric model that includes a range of factors previously shown to affect life satisfaction. Holding these factors constant, Scottish rural dwellers are found to have a significantly higher life satisfaction than city residents. Possible reasons for higher life satisfaction in rural areas are explored before finally drawing policy conclusions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 379-398 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1209981 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1209981 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:379-398 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1209983_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Kristen Lowitt Author-X-Name-First: Kristen Author-X-Name-Last: Lowitt Author-Name: Arlette Saint Ville Author-X-Name-First: Arlette Author-X-Name-Last: Saint Ville Author-Name: Caroline S. M. Keddy Author-X-Name-First: Caroline S. M. Author-X-Name-Last: Keddy Author-Name: Leroy E. Phillip Author-X-Name-First: Leroy E. Author-X-Name-Last: Phillip Author-Name: Gordon M. Hickey Author-X-Name-First: Gordon M. Author-X-Name-Last: Hickey Title: Challenges and opportunities for more integrated regional food security policy in the Caribbean Community Abstract: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has recognized regional integration as an important development strategy for addressing the unique vulnerabilities of its member small island developing states (SIDS). Food security in the Caribbean is a fundamental social and ecological challenge in which the dynamics of regional integration are increasingly playing out. CARICOM members have subsequently identified a number of shared food security problems and have endorsed regional goals and approaches to address them; however, progress towards solutions has been slow. Recognizing that evidence-based studies on the potential factors limiting sustained progress are lacking, we undertook a comparative policy analysis to understand better the various approaches and framings of food security at national and regional levels with a view to assessing coherence. We identify considerable divergence in how regional and local policy institutions frame and approach food security problems in CARICOM and then identify ways through which the policy integration objectives for enhanced regional food security might be progressed, with a particular focus on social learning. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 368-378 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1209983 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1209983 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:368-378 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1209982_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Teemu Makkonen Author-X-Name-First: Teemu Author-X-Name-Last: Makkonen Author-Name: Allan M. Williams Author-X-Name-First: Allan M. Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Title: Border region studies: the structure of an ‘offbeat’ field of regional studies Abstract: The contemporary conditions of academic capitalism exert pressures on researchers to avoid ‘peripheral’ journals and ‘unfashionable’ topics. This paper sheds a light onto the structure of one such ‘offbeat’ field, namely ‘border region studies’, by discussing its geographical distribution, key themes, significance and impact. The review suggests that border region studies can be considered a significant and important ‘branch’ of regional studies, which accounts for a small but increasing proportion of regional studies research, particularly in Europe and North America. Four main distinct, but interconnected, research themes are discussed: cooperation, development, governance and mobility. Based on the review, potential directions for further research are proposed and the implications of valuing research based almost solely on journal rankings is scrutinized. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 355-367 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1209982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1209982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:355-367 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1209980_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Kiheiji Nishida Author-X-Name-First: Kiheiji Author-X-Name-Last: Nishida Author-Name: Atsushi Yoshida Author-X-Name-First: Atsushi Author-X-Name-Last: Yoshida Title: A comparison between two health care delivery systems using a spatial competition model approach Abstract: Regional mal-distribution of healthcare providers such as hospitals and clinics is conspicuous in Japan. This study analyses whether Japan’s fee-for-service reimbursement system (FFSRS) or its diagnosis procedure combination/per-diem payment system (DPC/PDPS) is the better solution for the problem, with reference to the Hotelling-style spatial competition model. Under FFSRS, we also consider two modes of competition: the Stackelberg case, in which providers can control the number of hospital visits, and the Nash case, in which providers cannot do so. Results indicate that competition under DPC/PDPS is the most intensive of the three modes of competition. To relieve the locational concentration of providers, we also find that DPC/PDPS has a better mechanism than FFSRS. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 337-354 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1209980 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1209980 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:337-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1195282_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Thomas Thaler Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Thaler Title: Moving away from local-based flood risk policy in Austria Abstract: Floodplain areas across the world have always played an attractive role for residential and non-residential developments. The Alpine regions have a strong pressure to develop new residential and non-residential buildings in hazard areas due to lack of other areas suitable for development. Consequently, the number of elements at risk and vulnerability to flood hazards increased. In order to reduce the vulnerability, the focus of mitigation flood hazards was for decades on structural engineering measures with the problem of spatial misfits between the threat and management strategy. Since the late 1990s/early 2000s, Austrian policy makers have been trying to overcome this spatial misfit with the implementation of an inter-local co-operation approach with the use of so-called ‘new spatial planning’ (Heley, 2013) in the planning process. Therefore, the paper examines what the actors and stakeholders are doing in practice and how the concept of fuzziness helps. Although a partnership approach may be seen as a promising solution, in practice there are many limitations and barriers in establishing these collaborations and making them effective (especially in the long term). Rhetoric may not be matched by reality and a ‘partnership’ agenda may bring more problems (i.e. high transactions costs, high risk of failure, uncertainty in the long term) than it solves. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 329-336 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1195282 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1195282 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:329-336 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1189848_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Juan Eduardo Chica Author-X-Name-First: Juan Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Chica Title: Spatial clustering of knowledge-based industries in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Abstract: The central locations of metropolitan areas have some specific attributes, leading to an accumulation of large knowledge exchanges and extensive knowledge externalities, which encourage the concentration of various economic activities, especially knowledge-based industries (KBI). Other agglomeration economies found in metropolitan areas – such as telecommunications and transport infrastructures connected to global productive circuits and complementary labour markets – are key factors for KBI employment growth. This paper explores the Helsinki Metropolitan Area’s (HMA) spatial clustering of KBI at the sub-district level, and the role played by agglomeration economies (both specialization and diversity economies) in fostering this process. The results reveal that KBI employment shows patterns of concentration in the core and adjacent areas. The specialization and diversity economies found in the metropolitan core and the specialization economies found in others areas lead to KBI spatial clustering in the HMA. Public policies regarding the promotion of science parks have also played a decisive role. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 320-328 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1189848 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1189848 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:320-328 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1189354_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Evans Korang Adjei Author-X-Name-First: Evans Korang Author-X-Name-Last: Adjei Author-Name: Rikard H. Eriksson Author-X-Name-First: Rikard H. Author-X-Name-Last: Eriksson Author-Name: Urban Lindgren Author-X-Name-First: Urban Author-X-Name-Last: Lindgren Title: Social proximity and firm performance: the importance of family member ties in workplaces Abstract: This study empirically assesses the role of social proximity, defined as the concentration of family members (FM) in firms, on firm performance. Based on longitudinal micro-data for the period 1995–2010 connecting information on workers and their workplaces in the Swedish labour market, the effects of FM (parents, children, siblings and grandparents) on per capita productivity in 15,359 firms were analysed. The results indicate that FM positively affect firm performance. In particular, the results suggest that in specialized regions (mainly small regions) FM have a positive influence on performance and can thus compensate for relative shortage of regional agglomeration economies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 303-319 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1189354 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1189354 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:303-319 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1183513_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Yasemin İrepoğlu Carreras Author-X-Name-First: Yasemin Author-X-Name-Last: İrepoğlu Carreras Title: Fiscal decentralization and inequality: the case of Spain Abstract: What are the distributional effects of power allocations between different levels of government in a country? This article examines whether having regions with more fiscal authority is significantly associated with higher national economic inequality in a country. The literature has long established the positive link between decentralized governance structures and varying levels of redistribution within a country. Redistribution is channel through which governments tackle inequality, and if redistribution is asymmetric across sub-national units, this is expected to increase inequality. Yet, there is a gap in the literature that systematically links these three components: decentralized governance, redistribution and economic inequality. By focusing on the fiscal aspect of decentralization, this article provides the theory and the causal mechanism for understanding why the decentralization levels of governance in a country should matter for income inequality. Using data measured along different components of regional authority, such as policy scope, fiscal autonomy and fiscal control, it explains why fiscal decentralization is expected to increase inequality, while predicting that the co-sharing of fiscal power between the regions and central government will to lead to lower inequality. The article tests this hypothesis with a case study on Spain. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 295-302 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1183513 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1183513 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:295-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1183514_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Wojciech Dyba Author-X-Name-First: Wojciech Author-X-Name-Last: Dyba Title: Mechanisms of knowledge flows in bottom-up and top-down cluster initiatives Abstract: Knowledge flows are widely believed to be a phenomenon of clusters, and inducing them is one of the chief objectives in establishing and promoting cluster initiatives (CI). However, not many studies discuss how these flows and their effects may differ depending on the mode of CI creation and on the role of public authorities in this process. The main aim of this article is to compare mechanisms of knowledge flows in bottom-up and top-down cluster initiatives. The results of an empirical research involving two case studies in western Poland, obtained through the use of Social Network Analysis (SNA), allowed stating that in bottom-up cluster initiatives firms which were innovation leaders played a prime role in disseminating technological and business knowledge, while in the top-down initiatives the most important were representatives of universities and research centres as well as formal coordinators of cooperation. Policy implications stemming from these results were identified. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 286-294 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1183514 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1183514 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:286-294 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1177466_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Guy Lansley Author-X-Name-First: Guy Author-X-Name-Last: Lansley Title: Cars and socio-economics: understanding neighbourhood variations in car characteristics from administrative data Abstract: There were 30.7 million registered cars in Great Britain in 2011, outnumbering the total number of households recorded by the census. Despite this, the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s (DVLA) database of car model registrations remains underexplored as an indicator of socio-economic characteristics. In the past, car ownership itself has been frequently considered as a census proxy variable for affluence. However, this is an increasingly dated interpretation as ownership has become more widespread across society and the value of cars varies considerably. Understanding the geography of different car types, however, is likely to be more informative of local population characteristics as the choice of model is dependent on several factors, notably including the cost and the purpose of the vehicle. In partnership with the Department for Transport (DfT), a car segmentation was produced that grouped every car model registered in England and Wales in 2011 into 10 distinctive categories based on the vehicle’s key characteristics. Data representing the total number of registered cars for each car segment and three age groups were made available at a small area geography (known as lower layer super output areas – LSOAs) to be analysed for this study. It revealed that each car segment is uniquely distributed across London, and the rest of England and Wales. The patterns were then compared with key 2011 Census variables on socio-economics to understand the extent to which spatial patterns of broad car characteristics correspond with variances in indicators of social make-up. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 264-285 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1177466 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1177466 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:264-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1178075_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Kye Parkin Author-X-Name-First: Kye Author-X-Name-Last: Parkin Title: Inter-organizational power and work relations in a regional ICT cluster Abstract: The cluster concept has attracted numerous criticisms over the years. Yet, it arguably retains significant value as a lens for studying organizations, work and employment in particular places. Conceptualizing regions, for example, as inter-organizational ‘sites’ allows for the experience of working life to be analyzed more fully in relation to labour’s position within contextually based employment relationships. This article applies such a notion to evaluate the link between inter-organizational arrangements of power, local labour market dynamics, and work and employment relations in the Thames Valley (UK) information and communication technologies (ICT) cluster; on which basis it is concluded that the cluster facilitates a ‘strategically rational’ form of domination over workers. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 258-263 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1178075 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1178075 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:258-263 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1177467_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Mikko Weckroth Author-X-Name-First: Mikko Author-X-Name-Last: Weckroth Author-Name: Teemu Kemppainen Author-X-Name-First: Teemu Author-X-Name-Last: Kemppainen Title: Human capital, cultural values and economic performance in European regions Abstract: This study examines the cross-sectional association of three value orientations (self-direction, achievement and power) and level of gross domestic product (GDP) in 289 NUTS regions. Regional value aggregates, drawn from Schwartz’s Human Value Scale included in the European Social Survey, are taken to indicate value-based human capital. Regression analysis shows that self-direction, indicating independent thought, action and creativity, is a strong predictor for regional GDP after controlling for standard control variables and spatial autocorrelation. Additionally, analysis implements welfare regimes as indicators of larger socio-historic frames and finds significant geographical variations within these frames regarding the relationship between prevailing value climate and level of economic performance. The study contrasts perspectives from economic geography and cultural studies to the literature on alternative definitions and measures for human capital and argues that a synthesis of these perspectives can enrich one’s understanding of the economic geography in Europe. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 239-257 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1177467 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1177467 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:239-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1165626_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Andrea Čapkovičová Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Čapkovičová Title: Transformation of the employment base in Czech rural regions Abstract: The transformation process of post-communist economies in Central Europe has entered its third decade. The region has undergone processes such as restructuralisation, privatisation, globalisation and the beginning of the EU integration process. This paper focuses specifically on the transformation process in Czech rural regions, from the perspective of diversification of their economic base and related employment development. It describes two decades of change – 1991–2001 and 2001–2011. In the first decade the changes enhanced centre-periphery divergence, while in the second decade a new opportunity-driven development evolved. The emerging spatial economies are highlighted by comparing case studies of border and central rural regions. The regionalisation is operationalised at the level of LAU 1 regions. The results have policy implications in relation to diversification/specialisation strategies in rural development policy; there are also suggestions for further research on the quality of observed changes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 229-238 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1165626 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1165626 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:229-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1163506_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Evan Cleave Author-X-Name-First: Evan Author-X-Name-Last: Cleave Author-Name: Godwin Arku Author-X-Name-First: Godwin Author-X-Name-Last: Arku Author-Name: Richard Sadler Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Sadler Author-Name: Jason Gilliland Author-X-Name-First: Jason Author-X-Name-Last: Gilliland Title: The role of place branding in local and regional economic development: bridging the gap between policy and practicality Abstract: Place branding has become an increasingly integral part of local and regional economic development strategies in the global competition for business investment. Professional and academic understanding remains limited, however, regarding whether place branding can be classified as a ‘high-road’ policy with substantive and effective merits or a ‘low-road’ policy that is generally inefficient and ineffective at fostering sustainable economic growth. Through the context of business attraction, this study examines whether place branding represents ‘high-road’ policy by comparing what economic development practitioners are doing to create and support their brands against the needs and desires of businesses considering relocation. The research goal is achieved through a series of in-depth interviews with economic development practitioners (n = 25) and private-sector site selectors (n = 10) in the province of Ontario, Canada. Gaps between policy and practicality are identified by comparing the responses of the two groups. Results demonstrate that place branding has the potential to be ‘high-road’ policy given its utility in business attraction. In its current implementation, however, place branding remains better described as a ‘low-road’ policy, as it is not being used efficiently. Several gaps in place-branding policy are identified, including an overreliance on visual identities and narratives, poor communication of the brand information, and overemphasis on presenting quality of life and affordability. These gaps present possible areas of ineffectiveness that can limit the ability of a place brand to attract investment, but provide areas of future policy improvements, thus enabling place branding to shift from ‘low road’ to ‘high road’. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 207-228 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1163506 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1163506 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:207-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1154798_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Mingshu Wang Author-X-Name-First: Mingshu Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Jiangping Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Jiangping Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Name: Ying Long Author-X-Name-First: Ying Author-X-Name-Last: Long Author-Name: Feng Chen Author-X-Name-First: Feng Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: Outside the ivory tower: visualizing university students’ top transit-trip destinations and popular corridors Abstract: Universities are where innovations, face-to-face interactions and social capital are commonplace. Nevertheless, often regarded as ‘the ivory tower’, universities cannot be separated from the social and economic transformations outside of them. Traffic, information and financial flows between universities and other locations can be used to reveal connections between the ivory tower and other locales. Therefore, this paper uses the weekday public transit smartcard records from 6 to 9 April 2010 (158,262 transit trips in total, including bus-only, bus plus subway and subway-only trips) to identify and profile the most popular destinations of student riders from the ‘985 universities’ (a short list of top universities designated by the Chinese Central Government in 1999) and associated transit trip flows in Beijing. It identifies destination hotspots for the 985 universities’ students in Beijing, allocates traffic volume to major roads and delineates the transit trips of students from each campus. The results indicate that there exist only weak ties and little movement between the top universities and the most disadvantaged areas. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 202-206 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1154798 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1154798 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:202-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1154799_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Seungho Yoo Author-X-Name-First: Seungho Author-X-Name-Last: Yoo Title: Mapping the ‘End Austerity Now’ protest day in Central London using a 3D Twitter density grid Abstract: The mapping and spatial analysis of social media data can show the dynamics of activities in urban space, such as protest events. This work focuses on the spatial relationship between the density of geo-tagged tweets and a large anti-government protest in London on 20 June 2015. The tweets are aggregated to hexagonal grid cells to visualize activity density in different Central London areas. The results of the mapping illustrate very high densities at the beginning and endpoints of the protest (the Bank of England and Parliament Square). Additionally, there are high tweet densities in the West End and Bank than in other neighbouring areas. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 199-201 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1154799 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1154799 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:199-201 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1150199_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alys Solly Author-X-Name-First: Alys Author-X-Name-Last: Solly Title: Place-based innovation in Cohesion Policy: meeting and measuring the challenges Abstract: This paper, prepared in conjunction with the European Union’s Open Days 2015, examines current Cohesion Policy in terms of its place-based logic, a key aspect of the new Smart Specialisation strategy platform. After discussing changing notions of urbanization and governance, which seem to be shifting Cohesion Policy towards a more performance-oriented analysis of its outcomes, the paper focuses on the question of identifying an appropriate set of indicators and measuring framework. It suggests that measurements of Cohesion Policy performance should analyse the outcomes and indicators, as well as the European and national data sources and statistics, through the lens of effectiveness and well-being. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 193-198 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1150199 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1150199 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:193-198 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1150198_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: J. Gomez Prieto Author-X-Name-First: J. Author-X-Name-Last: Gomez Prieto Title: Impact of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) on the promotion and use of solar energy in the Mediterranean Abstract: The aim of this paper is to assess the contribution of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) programmes operating in the Mediterranean area as a supporting way to achieve the renewable energy objectives established in European Union Directive 2009/28/EC. It addresses a combination of impact and thematic assessment applied to projects tackling solar energy over the period 2007–13. Observations indicate that although not always measurable, ETC contributions to the use and promotion of solar energy in the Mediterranean represent a key step forward in higher deployment. The paper also suggest alternatives to improve projects’ outputs to be delivered in the new cycle 2014–20. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 185-192 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1150198 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1150198 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:185-192 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1144481_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Andrew Beer Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Author-Name: Debbie Faulkner Author-X-Name-First: Debbie Author-X-Name-Last: Faulkner Author-Name: Julia Law Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Law Author-Name: Gill Lewin Author-X-Name-First: Gill Author-X-Name-Last: Lewin Author-Name: Anthea Tinker Author-X-Name-First: Anthea Author-X-Name-Last: Tinker Author-Name: Laurie Buys Author-X-Name-First: Laurie Author-X-Name-Last: Buys Author-Name: Rebecca Bentley Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Author-X-Name-Last: Bentley Author-Name: Amber Watt Author-X-Name-First: Amber Author-X-Name-Last: Watt Author-Name: Sue McKechnie Author-X-Name-First: Sue Author-X-Name-Last: McKechnie Author-Name: Susan Chessman Author-X-Name-First: Susan Author-X-Name-Last: Chessman Title: Regional variation in social isolation amongst older Australians Abstract: Regional studies globally has a strong focus on understanding the causes of variation in the economic performance and well-being of regions and this emphasis acknowledges that the strength of the local or regional economy plays a determinant role in shaping quality of life. Regional research has been less active in considering spatial variation in other factors that are critical to individual and societal well-being. For example, the regional studies community has been absent from the debate on the social determinants of health and how these influences vary spatially. This paper considers the results of a cross-sectional survey of Australians aged 65 years and over that focused on social connections and well-being. It examines regional variations in the incidence of social isolation within the older population. It finds that while the incidence of self-reported social isolation amongst older persons is broadly consistent with earlier studies, it demonstrates a spatial patterning that is unexpected. The paper considers community-building activities in addressing the impacts of social isolation, including the role of urban design, and suggests that there is a need to supplement the national overview presented there through more detailed studies focused on individual localities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 170-184 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1144481 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1144481 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:170-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1138094_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Rune Njøs Author-X-Name-First: Rune Author-X-Name-Last: Njøs Author-Name: Stig-Erik Jakobsen Author-X-Name-First: Stig-Erik Author-X-Name-Last: Jakobsen Title: Cluster policy and regional development: scale, scope and renewal Abstract: Consistent with Marshallian/Porterian theories, the Norwegian cluster policy has been linked to the development of specialized regional industry environments. Cluster projects are relatively sector-specific entities often supporting (already) strong regional industries and sectors. Following a review of the current literature on clusters and innovation, and informed by evolutionary thought, we argue that such constellations of specialized clusters may hamper the long-term innovation ability of regions. In a conceptual discussion of cluster evolution and its links to innovation and regional path renewal, we argue that special emphasis – both theoretical and political – has been placed on the geographical scale of clusters, but there has been less emphasis on scope. Accordingly, we present three theory-based strategies for cluster evolution and link these to regional development and innovation by assessing their impact on regional path renewal. We illustrate our argument empirically using examples from the Norwegian Centre of Expertise (NCE) cluster programme. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 146-169 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1138094 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1138094 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:146-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1125306_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Leslie Budd Author-X-Name-First: Leslie Author-X-Name-Last: Budd Author-Name: Alessandro Sancino Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Sancino Title: A Framework for city leadership in multilevel governance settings: the comparative contexts of Italy and the UK Abstract: This paper discusses the role of city leadership in the current multilevel governance settings and provides a conceptual framework for understanding the main elements of city leadership. Forms of political, managerial and civic leadership have been distinguished within city leadership and the main actors, structures, processes and followership patterns are examined using Italy and the UK as starting points of comparison. This comparative framework sheds a light on some common and different features in the city leadership patterns in Italy and the UK, such as the cross-cutting and multilayered administrative context for public service delivery; the common trend towards strengthening the executive side of political leadership rather than the representative one; the growing relevance of forms of civic leadership as a trigger for creating public and social value and for enhancing the resilience of the territories. Main differences deal instead with the role of central government in defining the role of city leaders, where Italy seems to experience a return towards greater centralization and controls, and the UK is experiencing an opposite trend towards the empowerment of local communities. Finally, the paper sets out some future directions for the research agenda on city leadership we are seeking to pursue. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 129-145 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1125306 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1125306 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:129-145 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1135406_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Justin Doran Author-X-Name-First: Justin Author-X-Name-Last: Doran Author-Name: Noirin McCarthy Author-X-Name-First: Noirin Author-X-Name-Last: McCarthy Author-Name: Marie O’Connor Author-X-Name-First: Marie Author-X-Name-Last: O’Connor Title: Entrepreneurship and employment growth across European regions Abstract: This research focuses on the impact of regional entrepreneurial activity on employment growth. Specifically it analyses whether new firm formation in European NUTS-2 regions can stimulate job creation and drive employment growth. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 121-128 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1135406 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1135406 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:121-128 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1135756_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Rhiannon Pugh Author-X-Name-First: Rhiannon Author-X-Name-Last: Pugh Title: Beyond top-down recipes to connected innovative places Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 114-120 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1135756 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1135756 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:114-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1116959_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Mikael Omstedt Author-X-Name-First: Mikael Author-X-Name-Last: Omstedt Title: Reinforcing unevenness: post-crisis geography and the spatial selectivity of the state Abstract: This paper considers the unevenness of the 2007–08 crisis by examining the literature of England's North–South divide. From the 1980s this longstanding divide was exacerbated as a result of promoting London as a global financial hub, so when the crisis hit many expected some regional economic convergence as redundancies spread throughout the financial sector. This has, however, not taken place and previous patterns of uneven development have rather been reinforced. Attempts have been made to explain this deepening of established geographical patterns as the result of different regions’ degrees of economic resilience, but this approach is, however, problematic because it naturalizes crises, downscales responsibility and neglects politics. Inspired by Martin Jones’s concept of the ‘spatial selectivity of the state’, the paper will rather argue that to understand the uneven geography of the economic crisis, one has to look beyond localized resilience to how the state’s austerity policies have displaced the crisis’s impacts away from its origins in a London-centred financial sector. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 99-113 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1116959 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1116959 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:99-113 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1116960_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ralph K. Straumann Author-X-Name-First: Ralph K. Author-X-Name-Last: Straumann Author-Name: Mark Graham Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection’ Abstract: For many people, internet access is an essential part of everyday economic, social, and political activities (c.f. Graham and Dutton 2014). Yet access to the internet is, and has always been, geographically concentrated (Graham, Hale, and Stephens 2012, 2011). As such, it is important to focus on the people and places that are largely left out of digital connectivity. This visualisation looks at these in terms of internet penetration (i.e. the share of their population that have “used the Internet (from any location) in the last 12 months” (source: UN 2015)). The map highlights all territories that either have internet penetration below 10%, or for which no data from the World Bank exists. A lack of data can exist for several reasons, for example: some of these territories are statistically grouped together with bigger entities, no data have been collected or inferred, or the territories lack widespread recognised statehood. The map ultimately highlights an archipelago of land whose population is mostly cut off from the internet. This Archipelago of Disconnection has its centre of gravity in Sub-Saharan Africa where 28 countries have internet penetration rates beneath the 10% threshold we applied. As the internet becomes ever more embedded into global economic flows (Malecki and Morisset 2011), to the inhabitation of urban spaces (Graham 2013), and to other facets of everyday life, those living in the Archipelago of Disconnection are largely barred from participating in the cultural, educational, political, and economic activities that it affords. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 96-98 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1116960 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1116960 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:96-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1116957_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Franziska Sielker Author-X-Name-First: Franziska Author-X-Name-Last: Sielker Title: New approaches in European governance? Perspectives of stakeholders in the Danube macro-region Abstract: Macro-regional cooperation in the EU are networks that use the horizontal and vertical dimension of the multilevel governance system to influence both strategic decision-making as well as implementation activities. Drawing on an analysis of expert interviews in the Danube Region the paper scrutinizes stakeholders’ shared views towards expectations, challenges and added values, and thereby seeks to explain why a trend towards macro-regions arises and for what reasons stakeholders are getting involved. The analysis of the drivers for stakeholders’ commitment in the EU Danube Region Strategy shows that new governance arrangements need to be adjustable to different contexts, allow for negotiation and new network creation whilst simultaneously offering the political ability to act. The evidence presented suggests that multilevel governance in the EU is becoming increasingly complex, embracing more and different types of cooperation, with soft characteristics as crucial elements. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 88-95 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1116957 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1116957 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:88-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1090887_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Magali Talandier Author-X-Name-First: Magali Author-X-Name-Last: Talandier Author-Name: Valérie Jousseaume Author-X-Name-First: Valérie Author-X-Name-Last: Jousseaume Author-Name: Bernard-Henri Nicot Author-X-Name-First: Bernard-Henri Author-X-Name-Last: Nicot Title: Two centuries of economic territorial dynamics: the case of France Abstract: We propose an analysis of the socio-economic development processes at work in territories at the scale of French communes from 1806 to 2010. This is an extremely fine scale for such analysis, given that there are 36,000 communes in mainland France. The diachronic dimension, spanning two centuries, makes it possible to consider the temporal depth of territorial development. But the primary interest is not so much demographics as the socio-economic dimension of these variations over two centuries. We have analysed demographic changes as the expression of the socio-economic processes that shaped French territory over two centuries. Dynamic mapping of long-term population shifts reflects the industrial expansion of certain territories, decline due to the end of traditional farming practices, the shock produced by two world wars, the Fordist period and the post-war boom; the subsequent impact of an increasingly globalized, metropolitan economy then becomes apparent. We thus identify, map and analyse several historico-socio-economic phases. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 67-87 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1090887 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1090887 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:67-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1116958_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alexander Jaax Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Jaax Title: Skill relatedness and economic restructuring: the case of Bremerhaven Abstract: Evolutionary thinking suggests that past knowledge accumulation influences future growth opportunities. Old industrial regions’ inherited knowledge is often described as obsolete. Particularly, blue-collar workers’ difficulties in redeploying skills have been stressed. This study examines whether the emerging offshore wind-energy industry in Bremerhaven, Germany, can draw on skills from local declining shipyards. Beyond Germany, this new industry has inspired policy-makers to hope for the renewal of shipbuilding centres. Insights from interviews reveal that the blue-collar skill bases of both industries overlap. Declining shipyards provided much-needed experience and skills to the nascent industry. This contribution underscores the fruitfulness of the perspective of related variety with respect to the development of old industrial regions. An overly sharp distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’ knowledge may obstruct our view of potential growth opportunities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 58-66 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1116958 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1116958 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:58-66 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1109474_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alan Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Title: New roles for urban models: planning for the long term Abstract: Governments and planners are increasingly exploring the challenges of urban development in the long run – say up to 50 years into the future. This paper investigates the ways in which urban models can be used to explore these challenges. Conventional testing through forecasting is not possible, intuitively obvious because of the uncertainties – technological and otherwise. The alternative is to seek a framework in which a range of future scenarios can be articulated and explored. It is shown that there are features of the original Lowry model that have been under-exploited in the past that provide inspiration for this new challenge, particularly in his approach to land. It is shown that models will be valuable for scenario exploration in both comparative static and fully dynamic modes. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 48-57 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1109474 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1109474 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:48-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1109473_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: John Stillwell Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Stillwell Author-Name: Michael Thomas Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas Title: How far do internal migrants really move? Demonstrating a new method for the estimation of intra-zonal distance Abstract: This paper makes use of data on origin to destination migration by postcode derived from a large biannual consumer survey, Acxiom’s Research Opinion Poll, to measure distances of migration within England in the mid-2000s. These data provide an opportunity to evaluate conventional methods of centroid-based estimation of inter-zonal distance and area-based estimation of intra-zonal distance, and demonstrate how the latter in particular generates problematic estimates. A new regression-based approach for generating intra-zonal distance is presented, resulting in significantly improved goodness-of-fit statistics when used in doubly constrained spatial interaction modelling of migration flows for local authority districts in England from the 2001 and 2011 Censuses. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 28-47 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1109473 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1109473 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:28-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1099465_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Ligaya Leah Figueroa Author-X-Name-First: Ligaya Leah Author-X-Name-Last: Figueroa Author-Name: Samsung Lim Author-X-Name-First: Samsung Author-X-Name-Last: Lim Author-Name: Jihyun Lee Author-X-Name-First: Jihyun Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Title: Spatial analysis to identify disparities in Philippine public school facilities Abstract: This paper addresses the issues that affect school building conditions as a case study of the Philippines. Geographic information systems were utilized to investigate the allocation of public school resources and the extent of disparity in education facilities among 75 Philippine provinces. Four clusters of the provinces were identified by applying spatial statistics and regionalization techniques to the public school data. Overall, the building conditions are of high quality in the northern provinces. The greater region of the capital is overcrowded but well maintained. The eastern seaboard region and the southern provinces have poor conditions due to frequent natural calamities and the prolonged civil unrest, respectively. Since the spatial analysis result shows that the school building requirements are largely unmet, some recommendations are proposed so that they can be implemented by the government in order to improve the school facilities and mitigate the existing disparities among the four clusters of the Philippines. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1099465 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1099465 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:1-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1276701_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1276701 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1276701 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:3:y:2016:i:1:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1402361_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Sean O’Connor Author-X-Name-First: Sean Author-X-Name-Last: O’Connor Author-Name: Eleanor Doyle Author-X-Name-First: Eleanor Author-X-Name-Last: Doyle Author-Name: Stephen Brosnan Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Brosnan Title: Clustering in Ireland: development cycle considerations Abstract: Motivated by ongoing research into the cluster concept that considers dynamic features of economic development and the cluster life cycle, differences between traded clusters and local activity across different spatial scales are examined for Ireland. Using recent cluster definitions for Europe, this paper presents clustering patterns within the Irish economy from 2008 to 2012. We report on data requirements when applying the benchmark cluster definitions to Irish data. Integrating small, open economy features with life-cycle concerns, we focus on specific clusters in Ireland, along with their export performance, noting that appropriate cluster boundaries are neither regional nor national. Analyses indicate that while Ireland hosts a number of internationally competitive clusters, foreign-owned firms remain substantially more productive than indigenous enterprises. We identify the geographical location of these prominent clusters at the NUTS-3 regional level and highlight the role of regional features for differences in adaptive cycles of clusters. We identify a substantial portion (60%) of Irish regional wage variation relates to the different cluster mixes across regions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 263-283 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1402361 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1402361 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:263-283 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1408421_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Derek Roberts Author-X-Name-First: Derek Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts Title: Metro Detroit: residential location and neighbourhood perceptions Abstract: Metro Detroit has long been one of the most socially divided metropolitan regions in the United States. While the north-western suburbs are among the wealthiest in the nation, the region’s urban core has struggled with the nation’s post-industrial transition. Despite benefiting from various intra-regional ties, people from Metro Detroit’s suburbs often share negative stereotypes about the city at the region’s core and attempt to distance themselves from it. This article analyses surveys from 140 residents of the Metro Detroit region in order to understand better intra-regional perceptions of Detroit proper. Rather than the hypothetical neighbourhoods of varying racial diversity often found in perceptions research, surveys asked residents about real places in their home region. Asking about actual locations helped answer the research question behind this article: is residential location associated with neighbourhood perceptions? While race continues to influence neighbourhood perceptions, findings show that residential location is also a significant factor. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 255-262 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1408421 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1408421 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:255-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1394216_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Beate Caesar Author-X-Name-First: Beate Author-X-Name-Last: Caesar Title: European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation: a means to harden spatially dispersed cooperation? Abstract: In the past decade, over 60 European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs) have emerged, which are intended to help institutionalize cross-border cooperation. This paper analyses how establishing an EGTC contributes to the institutional ‘hardening’ of the spatially dispersed variant of cross-border cooperations and examines the attendant challenges. The research seeks to contribute to current debates concerning ‘soft spaces’ and makes the case that EGTCs represent a flexible tool for the hardening of spatially dispersed cross-border cooperations. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 247-254 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1394216 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1394216 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:247-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1379885_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Yasuyuki Motoyama Author-X-Name-First: Yasuyuki Author-X-Name-Last: Motoyama Author-Name: Emil Malizia Author-X-Name-First: Emil Author-X-Name-Last: Malizia Title: Demand pull or supply push? Metro-level analysis of start-ups in the United States Abstract: This paper examines factors related to higher regional start-up activity. Two hypotheses are formulated to explain start-ups: the demand-pull hypothesis argues that the amount, growth and density of aggregate demand will stimulate start-ups in any sectors; and the supply-push hypothesis argues that factors including high-tech industry concentrations, patent generation, industrial and university research activities, and government funding will stimulate high-tech start-ups. Both hypotheses support the importance of human capital factors, such as a highly educated or skilled workforce and thick labour markets. The paper incorporates these various measures and employs cross-sectional multivariate analysis of start-up rates in all sectors and in high-tech sectors in 366 metropolitan areas as defined by the US Census Bureau in 2009. Overall, very strong support is found for the demand-pull hypothesis, but only modest support for the supply-push hypothesis, which provide substantial caveats for public policy to promote start-up activities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 232-246 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1379885 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1379885 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:232-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1387601_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Tom Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Author-Name: Elin Charles-Edwards Author-X-Name-First: Elin Author-X-Name-Last: Charles-Edwards Title: The regional pattern of Australia’s largest overseas-born populations Abstract: The first decades of the new millennium have seen a dramatic increase in the level of net overseas migration to Australia. This has been accompanied by growing diversity in the origins of migrants away from the traditional source countries in Northern and Western Europe towards Asia. One result of this trend is an increasingly complex settlement geography. This Regional Graphic paper seeks to represent Australia’s immigrant geography by mapping the largest overseas-born population for regions of Australia using recently released 2016 Census data. The maps reveal a strong regionalization in migrant populations. Patterns reflect the concentration of some smaller migrant groups (e.g., Former Yugoslav Region (FYR) of Macedonia), while larger migrant groups (e.g., the UK) are more dispersed across the continent. Climate and geographical proximity to immigrants’ country of origin are possible factors driving the observed broad-level geographical variation in settlement. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 227-231 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1387601 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1387601 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:227-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1383181_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Franziska Eckardt Author-X-Name-First: Franziska Author-X-Name-Last: Eckardt Title: The multidimensional role of science parks in attracting international knowledge migrants Abstract: There is a tendency to think in primarily economic terms (e.g., economic and financial opportunities) when considering how major science, technology and business spaces, also known as science parks (e.g., Silicon Valley, USA; Science Vale, UK), attract international knowledge migrants (IKMs) from the global knowledge economy. However, other elements that make places attractive for IKMs to achieve desirable standards of living are often not sufficiently addressed in the recent literature. Using a single case study of the Dutch science park Novel-T, this paper investigates how science parks can deliberately be created to attract and retain IKMs using a new multidimensional model for understanding the attractive effects of science parks on human capital. The fieldwork element involved 20 semi-structured face-to-face interviews, which were analyzed using a narrative analysis technique. The results of the case study show that science parks should be understood as multidimensional networks that trigger both a social attraction effect for IKMs as well as regional economic development and growth. The importance of the spatial design of science parks as well as the creation of a highly international atmosphere were found to be two influential factors in attracting IKMs to a particular science park in a peripheral region. Moreover, the results show that the deliberate construction of a science park with four intended operational effects is not a simple and controllable process, since some operational effects (e.g., external recognition) appear to be more controllable than others (e.g., internal social dynamics). Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 218-226 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1383181 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1383181 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:218-226 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1360790_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Chris Leishman Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Leishman Author-Name: Craig Watkins Author-X-Name-First: Craig Author-X-Name-Last: Watkins Title: Assessing the spatial impact of policy interventions on real-estate values: an exemplar of the use of the hybrid hedonic/repeat-sales method Abstract: This paper sets out to make a contribution to the extensive literature that seeks to develop methods that allow rigorous and robust analysis of the spatial and temporal impacts of public policy interventions on property (real-estate) values. It argues that the hybrid repeat-sales/hedonic method developed in real-estate studies over the last 30 years has considerable, but as yet under-developed, potential as a policy analysis tool. Using data from Glasgow, UK, the empirical analysis illustrates how the technique can be used to understand the spatial spillovers and the dynamic temporal effects of a historic £100 million state-led, area-based, urban-renewal programme, New Life for Urban Scotland. The paper concludes by arguing that, with the rise in the availability of rich geocoded, micro-datasets, this framework is sufficiently flexible to be used to evaluate the real-estate market impacts of a wide range of public policy interventions. Significantly, as the case study demonstrates, the framework overcomes some of the sustained criticisms of the more commonly used hedonic modelling approach. There is, however, still much to do to enhance the technical qualities of the models through further application. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 202-217 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1360790 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1360790 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:202-217 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1351886_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Lin Hierse Author-X-Name-First: Lin Author-X-Name-Last: Hierse Author-Name: Henning Nuissl Author-X-Name-First: Henning Author-X-Name-Last: Nuissl Author-Name: Fabian Beran Author-X-Name-First: Fabian Author-X-Name-Last: Beran Author-Name: Felix Czarnetzki Author-X-Name-First: Felix Author-X-Name-Last: Czarnetzki Title: Concurring urbanizations? Understanding the simultaneity of sub- and re-urbanization trends with the help of migration figures in Berlin Abstract: Most classical models of urban development conceptualize suburbanization and reurbanization as opposing processes of in- and out-migration. The article at hand starts from the understanding that this linear interpretation of migration figures falls short of the mark. Drawing on different approaches to operationalize reurbanization, case-specific migration-data from Berlin illustrates a population development where decline and revival do not exclusively happen at either the urban core or the city’s fringes, but can be observed throughout the city region. The paper concludes that seemingly contradicting urban dynamics, such as population gains and losses in different parts of a diversified spatial system such as the city region result from the same land and housing market processes which favour and disadvantage different social groups and neighbourhoods, respectively. This observation calls for a dismissal of mono-linear policy approaches in urban governance and planning, so as to address both macro- and micro-scale disparities in a fair manner and to prevent the neglect of the latter. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 189-201 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1351886 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1351886 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:189-201 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1356238_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Federica Isola Author-X-Name-First: Federica Author-X-Name-Last: Isola Author-Name: Federica Leone Author-X-Name-First: Federica Author-X-Name-Last: Leone Author-Name: Cheti Pira Author-X-Name-First: Cheti Author-X-Name-Last: Pira Title: Towards a regional urban agenda: approaches and tools Abstract: During the 2014–20 programming period concerning European structural and investment (ESI) funds, the urban dimension has assumed considerable importance within European Union Cohesion Policy. This shift aims at guaranteeing more coherence between European challenges and urban planning, and at using European funding in a more efficient way. The definition and implementation of an urban agenda has become a prerequisite to meet the objectives of sustainable economic development based on an integrated approach to urban policy. From this conceptual perspective, the collaboration and coordination efforts between different levels of government represents a key element. Therefore, the implementation of models of multilevel governance could promote sustainable and socially inclusive growth of European cities, and greater involvement and coordination of urban areas within decision-making processes. This paper addresses the integrated approach to sustainable urban development through a critical analysis of the implementation of integrated territorial investments (ITIs) in the case study of the Sardinian region of Italy to investigate whether ITI could serve as a tool for pursuing/implementing the urban agenda. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 181-188 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1356238 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1356238 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:181-188 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1346481_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Christina Beatty Author-X-Name-First: Christina Author-X-Name-Last: Beatty Author-Name: Steve Fothergill Author-X-Name-First: Steve Author-X-Name-Last: Fothergill Title: The impact on welfare and public finances of job loss in industrial Britain Abstract: It is important to take a long view of many economic problems. This article explains how the large-scale loss of industrial jobs in parts of Britain during the 1980s and 1990s still inflates the contemporary budget deficit in the United Kingdom. Drawing on the findings of several empirical studies by the authors, the article shows that although there has been progress in regeneration the consequences of job loss in Britain’s older industrial areas have been near-permanently higher levels of worklessness, especially incapacity benefits, low pay, and a major claim on present-day public finances to pay for both in-work and out-of-work benefits. Furthermore, as the UK government implements reductions in welfare spending the poorest places are being hit hardest. In effect, communities in older industrial Britain now face punishment in the form of welfare cuts for the destruction previously wrought to their industrial base. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 161-180 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1346481 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1346481 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:161-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1341818_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Pedro Marques Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Marques Title: Human capital and university–business interactions: an example from the wine industry Abstract: Research on university–business interactions has thrived in recent years, influenced by some very successful examples where they have led to the emergence of world-class clusters. However, this paper will argue that in less developed regions the most important contribution that universities can make to their regional economies is the supply of skilled human capital. Through the case study of the wine industry in Portugal, it will argue that this supply of human capital can have a significant impact on the absorptive capacity of firms, particularly SMEs. It will therefore seek to make an important contribution to academic research in this area, by outlining a relatively neglected research area. It is also relevant for policy-makers and practitioners, as it argues that innovation and regional development policies should pay more attention to the need to match skills provision by higher education institutions to business needs among SMEs. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 154-160 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1341818 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1341818 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:154-160 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1333919_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Craig Wheway Author-X-Name-First: Craig Author-X-Name-Last: Wheway Author-Name: Titiyawadee Punmanee Author-X-Name-First: Titiyawadee Author-X-Name-Last: Punmanee Title: Global production networks and regional development: Thai regional development beyond the Bangkok metropolis? Abstract: There is a growing recognition that regional growth outside major urban centres should not – indeed cannot – be marginalized or ignored. In Europe, especially, important work now considers the growing role and importance of small and medium-sized cities in terms of spatial flows and networks and alternative pathways to economic growth than the city-centric, mega-urban approach. However, despite their prominence in economy geography, there is little mention of global production networks in this debate; and there has been much less focus on national contexts that lie beyond the traditional Euro-American heartlands of neoliberal capitalism. In the paper we address this issue by analysing the province of Korat in the north-east Thailand, revealing how Korat was unprepared for an influx of new firms; however, we note the untapped potential of peripheral regions to contribute to ameliorating regional inequalities. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 146-153 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1333919 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1333919 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:146-153 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1332491_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Paula Portas Author-X-Name-First: Paula Author-X-Name-Last: Portas Title: ‘Plain vanilla’ banking? The financialization of Spanish regional savings banks Abstract: Dominant narratives of the sovereign debt crisis in Spain blamed regional savings bank’s old-style lending patterns and naïve management for creating a ‘traditional’ banking crisis which eventually caused their own demise. Yet these narratives rest on an over-territorialized representation of regional finance. This article offers a regionally sensitive narrative of the conditions of possibility of the banking crisis in Spanish SBs by tracing the history of their deregulation and, using Catalonia as an exemplary case, their progressive financialization. Hence, it provides an alternative explanation of how savings banks came to be at the centre of the financial crisis in Spain, one that stresses the relevance of the interconnectivities between regional financial communities and the European financial market. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 139-145 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1332491 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1332491 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:139-145 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1325330_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Rune Njøs Author-X-Name-First: Rune Author-X-Name-Last: Njøs Author-Name: Lina Orre Author-X-Name-First: Lina Author-X-Name-Last: Orre Author-Name: Arnt Fløysand Author-X-Name-First: Arnt Author-X-Name-Last: Fløysand Title: Cluster renewal and the heterogeneity of extra-regional linkages: a study of MNC practices in a subsea petroleum cluster Abstract: The cluster literature in general and evolutionary economic geography in particular emphasizes the importance of extra-regional linkages for cluster evolution. However, the literature does so without necessarily nuancing the content, i.e., heterogeneity, of such linkages. We argue that treating extra-regional linkages as homogeneous hampers an important aspect of cluster renewal; namely, that it is context specific and dependent upon the diversified practices of the involved multinational companies (MNCs). In so doing, we also argue that relational approaches to economic geography offer an important insight into the evolutionary perspective. We investigate one of Norway’s strongest and most dynamic industry clusters, the subsea cluster in Hordaland county, and discuss the usefulness of combining relational and evolutionary understandings in analytical frameworks that address cluster renewal. This study shows that the practice of regional firms that internationalize (labelled MNC out) and foreign-owned MNCs coming into the cluster (MNC in) contribute in different ways to renewal of the cluster. We find that the practices of MNC out contribute to further specialization of the cluster, whereas the practices of MNC in contribute to diversification of economic activities. Both types of extra-regional linkages are important for renewal of the cluster, as they together represent a mix between continuation and change of existing activities. Necessarily, such interplays between MNC practices and cluster evolution pan out differently in different contexts, but we argue that the literature should acknowledge that extra-regional linkages are heterogeneous and contribute differently to cluster evolution in general and renewal in particular. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 125-138 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1325330 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1325330 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:125-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1328285_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Anne P. M. Velenturf Author-X-Name-First: Anne P. M. Author-X-Name-Last: Velenturf Title: Initiating resource partnerships for industrial symbiosis Abstract: Industrial symbiosis is a strategy to limit carbon emissions whilst promoting resource efficiency and business development. This study interprets industrial symbiosis as waste-to-resource innovation. Understanding how these innovations are actually realized, and hence how they can be promoted by public and private partners, is still limited. Particularly, initiating resource partnerships for waste-to-resource innovations in the absence of a government-funded facilitator, such as previously the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) in the UK, has remained underexplored. This paper explores how companies identify potential resource partners in terms of network and geographical distances. Based on case studies of waste-to-resource innovation in the Humber region of the UK, the paper concludes that (1) companies can identify resource partners among/through their direct contacts that are involved in resource production/management themselves; and (2) that about 73% of these connections are located within a 75 miles’ radius. Furthermore, various new ‘facilitators’ were identified, demonstrating the need for a refined government approach to facilitate industrial symbiosis as part of the wider transition towards the circular economy. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 117-124 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1328285 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1328285 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:117-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1322528_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Anastasiia Konstantynova Author-X-Name-First: Anastasiia Author-X-Name-Last: Konstantynova Title: Basque Country cluster policy: the road of 25 years Abstract: This paper addresses how cluster policy, particularly its management part, contributes to the processes of switching path dependency and escaping lock-ins in the old industrial regions. This is based on the case study of the Basque Country in a timeline of 25 years. Analysing the development of the Basque cluster policy on both a period and a stage-by-stage basis gives a practical understanding of the intervention framework for effective cluster policy management. Moreover, it rediscovers and stresses the importance of agile policy capacity to internal knowledge creation, constant learning and adaptation stimulating processes of path creation in old industrial regions by providing new ways of thinking about cluster policy interventions. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 109-116 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1322528 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1322528 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:109-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1315611_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Cornelia Tippel Author-X-Name-First: Cornelia Author-X-Name-Last: Tippel Author-Name: Jörg Plöger Author-X-Name-First: Jörg Author-X-Name-Last: Plöger Author-Name: Anna Becker Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Becker Title: ‘I don’t care about the city’: the role of connections in job-related mobility decisions of skilled professionals Abstract: Many cities in industrialized countries engage in competition for talent. While scholars have produced rich accounts of why some cities are better equipped than others in attracting skilled workers, the individual decision-making and agency of this group remains understudied. Contributing to this debate we examine how skilled professionals make their decisions in favour of locations. It focuses on the role of connections, which comprise social networks and take into account a range of professional, social and cultural ties between individuals and places. Our argument is based on empirical material from two qualitative case studies on work-related migration. The first studies professionals who moved to Frankfurt on a temporary basis from within Germany; the second focuses on high-skilled international migrants in Hamburg. We show that these supposedly privileged professionals often address limited job opportunities and personal constraints. Based on our findings and in addition to hard location factors, we argue that different forms of connections may further explain work-related moves. Despite similarities between the groups, internal migrants are more reliant on professional networks, while the international group is more likely to benefit from institutional connections. In our conclusion, we discuss how our research reveals inadequacies of current modes of urban policy-making. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 94-108 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1315611 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1315611 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:94-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1313129_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alistair Bruce Author-X-Name-First: Alistair Author-X-Name-Last: Bruce Author-Name: David Clarson Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Clarson Title: Assessing the potential and limits of community-based initiatives in urban regeneration: three decades of experience on Sheffield’s Manor estate Abstract: This paper charts the evolution, over three decades, of a group of community-based organizations in the Manor area of Sheffield, UK, which have sought to establish the basis for its economic and social regeneration. It identifies various factors as important in underpinning the organizations’ collective contribution, but observes that this contribution is largely limited to the rebuilding of community capital, esteem and environment. Material and measurable improvements in social and economic indicators require, in addition, a stronger appreciation of the value of organizational knowledge and learning, and more purposeful network development. The increased role for community-based organizations in addressing the challenges of sustained economic austerity is noted. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 80-93 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1313129 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1313129 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:80-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1313127_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Rūta Ubarevičienė Author-X-Name-First: Rūta Author-X-Name-Last: Ubarevičienė Author-Name: Maarten van Ham Author-X-Name-First: Maarten Author-X-Name-Last: van Ham Title: Population decline in Lithuania: who lives in declining regions and who leaves? Abstract: Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost one-quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy-makers and planners. The aim of this study is to obtain more insight into the recent processes of socio-spatial change and the role of selective migration in Lithuania. The main focus is on understanding who lives in those regions which are rapidly losing population, and who is most likely to leave these regions. This is one of the first studies to use individual-level Lithuanian census data from 2001 and 2011. We found that low socio-economic status residents and older residents dominate the population of shrinking regions, and unsurprisingly that the most ‘successful’ people are the most likely to leave such regions. This process of selective migration reinforces the negative downward spiral of declining regions. As a result, socio-spatial polarization is growing within the country, where people with higher socio-economic status are increasingly overrepresented in the largest city-regions, while the elderly and residents with a lower socio-economic status are overrepresented in declining rural regions. This paper provides empirical evidence of selective migration and increasing regional disparities in Lithuania. While the socio-spatial changes are obvious in Lithuania, there is no clear strategy on how to cope with extreme population decline and increasing regional inequalities within the country. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 57-79 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1313127 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1313127 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:57-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1307784_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Frank Crowley Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Crowley Title: Firm subsidies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: is there urban bias? Abstract: Regional disparities exist due to the uneven impact of economic development. The World Bank’s World Development Report (2009) advocates that attempts to spread out economic activity will undermine growth. This study finds that policy-makers in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia favour subsidizing firms in less urbanized locations. However, innovation market outcomes would probably be higher if there was an urban bias in subsidy distribution. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 49-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1307784 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1307784 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:49-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1308063_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Alasdair Rae Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair Author-X-Name-Last: Rae Author-Name: Stephen Hincks Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Hincks Author-Name: Heather Stephens Author-X-Name-First: Heather Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens Title: The role of open access in a changing academy: reflections on a new publishing paradigm Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 42-48 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1308063 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1308063 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:42-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1286231_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Gülsüm Akarsu Author-X-Name-First: Gülsüm Author-X-Name-Last: Akarsu Title: Analysis of regional electricity demand for Turkey Abstract: Electricity sectors have experienced a transformation towards more liberalized and decentralized structure since the 1980s. This transformation process increases the importance of regional-level analysis. This study analyses the factors affecting regional electricity demand. As a case study, analysis is performed for Turkey by employing a dynamic spatial lag panel data model. The model allows for the inclusion of spatial interaction effects into the analysis which are important but mostly ignored in the literature. Findings show evidence of spatial spillover effects. Therefore, the paper concludes that one should consider spatial spillover effects of economic factors and regional energy policies. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 32-41 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1286231 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1286231 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:32-41 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1281154_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Aksel Ersoy Author-X-Name-First: Aksel Author-X-Name-Last: Ersoy Title: Smart cities as a mechanism towards a broader understanding of infrastructure interdependencies Abstract: Cities are centres of innovation, but they also face great challenges such as rapid urbanization, climate change and increased pressure on city services. While working in partnership has been considered as an essential element in urban management, the increasing interconnected nature of infrastructure networks has provided opportunities for reshaping the decision-making process, enabling new sites of experimentation and stimulating sustainable and inclusive urban infrastructure. However, in the UK, the current approach to infrastructure management and creation make infrastructure networks vulnerable. After its introduction in 2008, the concept of ‘smart city’ has promised to offer, through the use of smart technologies and data, a means to solve the unprecedented challenges being faced today in more integrated ways. This paper explores whether ‘smart cities’, as integrated infrastructures, can go beyond connecting just a series of physical assets in the city. By looking at two smart city examples, namely Bristol and Milton Keynes in the UK, as sites of experimentation as well as technological assemblages, the paper argues that three elements emerge as important factors: ensuring collaboration, inclusion and institutional capacity in the context of mobilizing collective learning and transforming city infrastructure. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 26-31 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1281154 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2017.1281154 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:26-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1266285_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Mehdi Pourpeikari Heris Author-X-Name-First: Mehdi Pourpeikari Author-X-Name-Last: Heris Title: Evaluating metropolitan spatial development: a method for identifying settlement types and depicting growth patterns Abstract: This research developed a method to explore density and growth rates in the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. The outcomes of this method enable planners to understand the growth pattern of a region and compare it with other regions in the country. The main objectives of this research were: (1) to identify settlement types (high, medium and low density, suburbs, and urban fringes) in each metropolitan area; (2) to depict and compare general metropolitan structures across the nation; and (3) to evaluate the location of recently developed dwellings in relation to settlement types and structures and estimate growth trends. The paper combined the percentage of impervious surface raster dataset (30-m cell size) produced by the US Geological Survey (USGS) and block-level housing unit data produced by the Census Bureau to map housing density across the lower 48 states in 2000 and 2010. Neighbourhood density profiles were used to identify the settlement types (high, medium and low density, suburbs, and urban fringes). The paper then compared density-decay functions of 50 metropolitan areas to depict urban growth patterns and to quantify the number of housing units developed in each settlement type. This method effectively distinguishes regions with higher densification (infill development) rates versus regions with high-paced sprawl. The results showed that Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco metropolitan areas had high percentages of housing units developed in high-density areas between 2000 and 2010, while during the same period Birmingham, Nashville and Charlotte had high percentages of housing development in areas identified as suburbs. Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 7-25 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1266285 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1266285 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:7-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RSRS_A_1256227_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20250815T221317 git hash: a1bee4f0b5 Author-Name: Eduardo Oliveira Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Oliveira Title: Editorial for virtual special issue: The emergence of new forms of flexible governance arrangements in and for urban regions: an European perspective Journal: Regional Studies, Regional Science Pages: 1-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2016.1256227 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2016.1256227 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:1-6