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The role of innovation and knowledge for entrepreneurship and regional development
The impact of entrepreneurial activity on regional economic growth continues to be a focus of research and policy-makers throughout our global environment (Carree and Thurik 2000; Agarwal, Audretsch, and Sarkar 2007).
S. Kraus +3 more
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Regional Development Banks in the World Economy
This chapter offers a revised categorization of regional development banks (RDB) through an analysis of their changing geographical operations and their shifting prioritization of five major functions—development, regional integration, market promotion ...
Judith Clifton +2 more
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Hierarchical classification system of Germany’s ecosystems as basis for an ecosystem accounting – methods and first results [PDF]
Information on changes in the area of different ecosystems is needed in order to establish an accounting system for ecosystem conditions and services. Currently, there are no comprehensive field mappings for the German federal states that obey a uniform ...
Karsten Grunewald +6 more
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Sensitivity of the 2018 UK summer heatwave to local sea temperatures and soil moisture
The impact of local climate conditions on air temperatures during a hot summer period over the United Kingdom in 2018 is studied using simple sensitivity experiments with a state‐of‐the‐art regional numerical weather prediction system.
Jon C. Petch +6 more
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Tolga is a 5,200 ha sheep and cropping farm located near Kulin in Western Australia (WA). Since 2004, its production system has been a blend of conventional and alternative practices; some of these alternative practices are common in non-broadacre ...
Bradley Plunkett +5 more
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Variations in the determinants of regional development disparities in rural China
The presence of persistent regional development disparities in rural China has become one of the most important concerns about the country's further sustainable development.
Lucy Zheng +2 more
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Iron toxicity is one of the most commonly observed soil nutritional disorders, which causes lowering of rice yields, especially in the low country wet zone (LCWZ), Sri Lanka.
K. G. D. I. Siriwardana +7 more
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SERVICES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
The purpose of this contribution is to discuss what roles the different economic sectors, and in particular services activities (the tertiary sector) play in regional develop ment, understood as growth in production, incomes and employment in weakly developed regions. This question is approached in two ways.
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Local Factors and COVID-19 Severity: Typological Analysis of Urban Districts in Russia [PDF]
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that the lack of consideration of the local specifics of territories, such as the specifics of socio-economic interactions, labor market characteristics, leads to serious social or economic consequences when ...
Ruslan Vyacheslavovich Goncharov +2 more
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CREATIVITY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
In this paper, research and development, knowledge and creativity are analysed within the context of economic development theory. It is demonstrated that size and spatial structure play an important part in the creative process. Furthermore, it is argued that only a very limited set of policy conclusions can be drawn from non-spatial theories of R & D.
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