Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2009

6th-8th April, Leuven, Belgium
Understanding and Shaping Regions: Spatial, Social and Economic Futures

Best International Conference Paper Award Winner:
Catherine Lecocq, Bart Leten, Jeroen Kusters, and Bart Van Looy
Do Firms benefit from being present in Technology Clusters? Evidence from Firms active in the Field of BiotechnologyPDF icon

Academic Papers PDF icon
Author(s) Title of Paper
Manuel Acosta, Daniel Coronado and M. Ángeles Martínez Specialization vs. diversification of university technological knowledge across European regions
Mercedes Gumbau Albert and Joaquín Maudosa The contribution of technological inputs and spillovers to competitivity and economic growth: the case of the Spanish regions
Stilianos Alexiadis and Dimitrios Tsagdis Factors affecting the levels of technology in the EU27 regions: A spatial model
Diana Almeida, and Joõo Fumega How can sustainable planning improve the nightlife of a specific waterfront district?
Teresa Alves, and Diana Almeida Spatial Planning, Cities and Regions
Planning the night - light as a central issue
Isaac Kwamena Arthur Investigating the prospects of experience economy in the food sector: A pilot study on Thisted Municipality
Mathijs Assink and Nico Groenendijk Spatial Quality, Location Theory and Spatial Planning
Christopher Bahn Large-scale retailing as resource for inner-city regeneration: The experience in Switzerland
Walid Bakhos The adoption of EU's spatial planning discourse in the Southern Mediterranean Countries: An opportunity for renewing central governments control over national and regional territories?
Jose M. Barrutia & Carmen Echebarria Testing the role of Social Capital as a driver of the relationship between Research Expenditure and Outcomes
Walid N A Bayoumi The Tale of the Unsettled New Cairo City-Egypt: A Review for the Implications of the Adopted Privatization and Laissez- Fair Policies on Excluding the Poor from its Housing Market
Benedek J., Horváth R., Baun M., Marek D. Romania
Gary Bosworth Commercial Counterurbanisation and the Rural Economy
Marisol García Cabeza, Marc Pradel Miquel and Santiago Eizaguirre Anglada Citizens' creative strategies facing social exclusion: towards innovation in local governance?
Marco Crocco, Ana Hermeto and Fabiana Santos Regional Banking Strategy: an introductory note for the Brazilian case
Marco Crocco, Fabiana Santos and Pedro Amaral The Spatial Structure of the Financial Development in Brazil
Ellingsen Conceptions of second home mobility in Norwegian policy and political discourse
Aitziber Elola, Jesus M. Valdaliso, Santiago M. López and Mari Jose Aranguren Paper-making Machines and Microchips: A Comparison of the Basque Paper and ICT Clusters' Life Cycles
Dr Maléne (M.M.) Campbell, Mr Johan Maritz and Prof Dries (AC) Hauptfleisch The Impact of the Maputo Development Corridor on Wealth Creation within the Region it Serves.
Aksel Ersoy Polycentric Urban Development and Istanbul
Éva G.Fekete Post-modern values and rural peripheries
Marie Ferru The multi-scale dimension of innovation: a proximist analysis of partnerships build-up
Davide Fiaschi, Andrea Mario Lavezzi and Angela Parenti Productivity Convergence across European Regions: the Effect of Structural and Cohesion Funds
Margarida Fontes, Cristina Sousa and Pedro Videira Knowledge access and location decisions in biotechnology: the spatial dimension of social networks
Forman The "Eastern Wall" problem: European Union's support scheme requires a reform
Martina Fuchs, Johannes Winter The Evolution of Innovative Competencies in Subsidiaries of Multinational Companies
Zuzana Gáková and Lewis Dijkstra Labour mobility between the regions of the EU-27 and comparison with the US
Zoltán Gál Future Bangalores? The increasing role of Central and Eastern Europe in offshoring services
Guastella Giovanni & Timpano Francesco Beyond Neoclassical Analysis: a Non-Parametric Approach to Model EU Regional Economic Dynamics
Guastella Giovanni & Timpano Francesco Does Space Matter? Empirics on Convergence in EU Regions
Arianna Giovannini The UK devolution process: new challenges and unsolved questions The case of the North of England
Anne E. Green & Michael Orton Local and regional partnership working to support employability: tackling worklessness through the City Strategy initiative in Great Britain
Ludovic Halbert The 'innovation turn' in the cultural industries: adapting the regional productive system to globalisation. Evidence from three image-producing sub-sectors in the Paris region
Abdelillah Hamdouch, Marc-Hubert Depret, Jean-Louis Monino and Christian Poncet Regional Policies, Key Levers of Regional Innovation Dynamics
Brian Hughes Understanding and Shaping the Greater Dublin Area as Ireland's Emerging City-State of the 21st Century
Christian Jantzen & Mikael Vetner Designing Urban Experiences for a Suburban Population The Case of Almere (Netherlands)
Calvin Jones Assessing the Impact of Tourism in Regions: Towards a Holistic Analysis?
Neslihan Karatas Effects of internal migration movements within the context of interregional imbalance in Turkey on the change of employment and workforce structures in metropolitan cities and evaluation of employment supply - a case study of Izmir
Tom Kauko Creating a sustainable local housing market - part II: some diagnostic issues
Ágnes Király The role of higher education in regional development. The case study of the University of Pécs.
Dr. Art Kovačič Competitiveness of CEE Countries on the European Single Market
Catherine Lecocq, Bart Leten, Jeroen Kusters, and Bart Van Looy Do Firms benefit from being present in Technology Clusters? Evidence from Firms active in the Field of Biotechnology
Mauro Lemos, Pedro Amaral, Rodrigo Simões, and Flávia Chein Regional Imbalances and Market Potential in Brazil
Christine Liefooghe Regional Innovation Policies versus Innovative Urban Projects in a former industrial Region : an evolutionnary perspective
Balázs Lóránd Cohesion Policy in Hungary according to the First National Development Plan
Anne Lorentzen Space and place in the experience economy. A proactive approach
Abid Mehmood Understanding spatial development and interactions in small islands
E.J. (Evert) Meijers & M.J. (Martijn) Burger Urban Spatial Structure and Labor Productivity in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Luís Mendes The Reform of Portuguese Territory Administration: Opportunities and Threats for Regional Governance
Ph. Monfort Convergence of EU regions - Measures and evolution
Zoltán Nagy & Dániel Kuttor Investigation of the interdependence between the national and regional level growth through the cases of Hungary and Slovak Republic
Berit Therese Nilsen The 'experience industry' - concepts and contexts
Andreas Novy City, Regions and Social Cohesion
Andreas Novy and Bernhard Leubolt Scale-Sensitive Socioeconomic Democratisation
Richard Nunes, Neil Adams & Giancarlo Cotella Policy 'framing' and evidence-based planning: 'epistemic communities' in the multi-jurisdictional environment of an enlarged Europe
Eva Nussmueller, Lukas Lengauer and Franz Toedtling Motives and influencing factors of corporate regional engagement: industry and company specific patterns
Cecilia Pasquinelli Place Branding for Endogenous Development. The Case Study of Tuscany and the Arnovalley Brand.
Alain Rallet and André Torre Temporary Geographical Proximity for Business and Work Coordination: When, How and Where?
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose Do institutions matter for regional development?
Fulvio Rizzo The Institutional Context in the Leader Programme: The Case Studies of North Karelia (Finland), and South Tyrol (Italy)
Yehya M. Serag Give me a fish until you teach me how to fish An integrated development approach proposed in Upper Egypt
Liu Shiqing Transition of Regional Policy in China during the thirty year Reform
David M. Smith and Enid Wistrich Understanding and Shaping Regions - territorial politics, regionalism and federalism
Margaret Somerville with Badger Bates, Treahna Hamm & Lorina Barker Shaping the Murray-Darling Basin: the significance of culture and identity
Harald Stoeger Processes of Social Exclusion in the Housing Markets - Some considerations on a complex issue
Tatar The Impact of the European Union Regional Policy on Sub-National Mobilisation in a Unitary State: The Case of Estonia
Dimitrios Tsagdis and Stilianos Alexiadis EU27 leading regions in labour productivity growth in agriculture, industry, and services: A methodology and a research agenda
Tetsuji Uemura, Susana Mourato & Masaaki Uto Investigation of the relation between impacts on infrastructure management and possible casual factors in depopulated municipalities in Japan using binary logit regression analysis
Attila Varga, Dimitrios Pontikakis & Georgios Chorafakis Agglomeration and network effects productivity
Friso de Vor and Henri L.F. de Groot The Impact of Industrial Sites on Residential Property Values: A hedonic pricing analysis for the Netherlands
Xuefeng Wang Knowledge-based urban development in Wuhan, China
Dr Peter Wells & Ms Thaisa Faro Developing away from sustainability? Regional Development and globalisation in the Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Sector.
Ulf Wiberg Changing development path through revised urban design
Joanie Willett Cornwall's Experience of the Experience Economy; Longitudinal Impacts
Tao Xiang, d'Artis Kancs and Jo Swinnen Standards Driven Rural Development: A General Equilibrium Model with Market Imperfections
Xiaodong Fu & Hanlu Xu The origin of explosive development of Creative industry in China
Pavla Zízalová Emerging innovation modes and (regional) innovation systems in the Czech Republic

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