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