regions

This paper analyses the potential role of the municipal authorities of Vienna in supporting and shaping the metropolitan innovation system. Based on a survey of innovation networks in the Vienna urban region, basic structural features of these networks - types of partners, their location and the kind of relations between them - are presented. From these results, conclusions concerning the design of urban innovation policy - its potential scope and effectiveness, reasonable priorities and inevitable limits - are drawn.

This report is a concise summary of the presentations, discussions and main conclusions of the first MLP workshop on regional profiles and growth poles. The workshop was attended by some 50 practitioners and officials representing regional authorities, specialised regional agencies, experts as well as representatives of the European Commission.

This study examines the residential choice of couples in which both spouses have higher education degree. The aim of this study is to find out where these couples live. In addition, families with different educational backgrounds are compared. The comparison might tell about the reasons of a family’s residential choice. Micro level data is used in empirical analysis.

This paper investigates the efficiency of the matching process between job seekers and vacancy posting firms in West-Germany, using variation across labor market regions and across time.

The authors investigate regional differences in the level and the development of regional new business formation activity. Steering innovation and creating an entrepreneurial atmosphere could be an appropriate starting point for policy measures that try to promote start-ups.

This report outlines a process for collecting data on key measures of innovation that can then be used to drive regional economic development policies and programs.

The authors explore an economy with two regions and independent local administrations. Preliminary results show that the Nash equilibrium will result in over- or under-investment depending on the extent to which public education is subject to congestion.

The purpose of the report is to help policy and decision-makers understand an monitor economic changes in the Arizona-Sonora Region and to support policies that promote economic transformation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. The report indicates that the region is improving in quality of life and general economic progress, but is lacking in other areas.

The University of Arizona Office of Economic Developments annual report card provides information on economic growth and development in the Arizona-Sonora region to support policies that promote economic transformation, investment and entrepreneurship, but not necessarily to make policy recommendations.

Four new indicators have been added to this annual report. They include two in the Manufacturing/Maquiladora section and two in the Quality of Life section. The report is an attempt to monitor developments in an emerging binational region.