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Since the early 1970's, structural transformations have led to shifts in activities between highly developed core areas, their hinterlands and national peripheries, both within industrialised and developing countries as well as between them. This has resulted in an entirely new spatial division of labour. Looks at some of the factors of this and the problems it poses for regional development. (GAW)

The second edition of this book is completely reedited making the book even more valuable for graduate students, reflecting recent advances and adding insightful new material. The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for local and regional economic development policy and planning. First, the book provides the reader with an overview of key theoretical and conceptual contexts within which the economic development process takes place. However, the deliberate emphasis is to provide the reader with an account of quantitative and qualitative approaches to regional economic analysis and of old and new strategic frameworks for formulating regional economic development planning.

This paper is a reflection of the author's views on recent research developments at the interface of entrepreneurship and regional economic development and growth. The paper begins with an overview of the recent rise of interest in entrepreneurship in general and, in particular, with respect to its influence on regional economic growth and development. Following an introduction the formation and development of high growth firms (HGFs) and their disproportionately large contribution to job creation are examined. Entrepreneurship ecosystems are then examined in an effort to understand the factors that contribute to high levels of HGF production and job growth. This analysis raises a question about the role of culture, governance and institutions in the collage of factors that influence the development of entrepreneurship systems. These factors are then comparatively examined using three case studies for the U.S., Europe and China which raise the question of how to manage the role of government policy to promote entrepreneurship while, at the same time, preserving other seemingly contradictory factors such as risk taking an d self-reliance. The last part of the paper focuses on equity considerations that have served as rationales for government intervention in regional and national ntrepreneurship systems. Gender, age, migrants, family, technology groups are examined briefly in an effort to provide deeper insight into how public policies in these areas are rationalized. At the end of each major part of the paper relevant research questions are described and discussed. A summary of the paper is presented at the end. ; El artículo es una reflexión con los puntos de vista del autor sobre los recientes desarrollos en las relaciones entre emprendedurismo y desarrollo regional y crecimiento. Se inicia con una visión general del reciente aumento del interés en el emprendedurismo, en general, y con respecto a su influencia en el crecimiento y el desarrollo económico regional, en particular. A partir de una introducción a ...

Die Weltwirtschaftskrise seit den 70er Jahren löst auf internationaler und nationaler Ebene umfangreiche Transformationsprozesse aus, so daß bislang gültige Konzeptionen internationaler und interregionaler Arbeitsteilung sowie regionaler Entwicklungsstrategien einer Überprüfung bedürfen. Die anhaltenden strukturellen Transformationsprozesse verändern ökonomische Aktivitäten in Agglomerationsräumen und ihrem Hinterland sowohl in Industrie- als auch in Entwicklungsländern. Mit der Weltwirtschaftskrise entsteht in den meisten Industrieländern eine tripolare Problemsituation regionaler Entwicklung: (1) hoch innovative Regionen ("sunbelt" und "mountainbelt") mit technologischen Komplexen und wissenschaftlichen Zentren; (2) alte Industriezentren aus der Zeit der industriellen Revolution und (3) unterentwickelte, meist ländliche Regionen. Diese tripolare Problemsituation ist Ausdruck des Übergangs von quantitativen zu qualitativen Strukturunterschieden, die hauptsächlich auf räumlichen Unterschieden von Innovationskapazitäten basieren. Mit dieser räumlichen Problematik wird sich die Regionalforschung nach Ansicht des Autors in Zukunft zu beschäftigen haben. (KP)

Relevance. The difficulties of small business caused by the pandemic and its economic consequences actualize the study of issues of regional economic development in small business, since its effective functioning provides opportunities for economic growth in the region.The purpose is establishment of measures to support small business based on the trends of its development in the regions, which in the future will allow to form the directions of regional economic development in small business, contributing to improving the efficiency of the regional economy.Objectives: Determination of trends in the development of small businesses in Russia and the Central Federal District. Assessment of indicators of the state, activity and development of the small business sector in regional economic development in the context of the Central Federal District regions. Analysis of numerical dynamics, as well as the dynamics of ICT development and anti-crisis support in detail on financial, property and innovation support for small businesses. Establishment of support measures for the small business sector aimed at improving the efficiency of regional economic development. Methodology. Methods used in the research: statistical information processing; statistical analysis and synthesis; graphical method of data visualization.Results. Since 2019, the number of small businesses and their number has been declining due to the pandemic. In 2020, the regions of the Central Federal District are characterized by a reduction in the number of small enterprises and the number of their employees, an increase in the level of digitalization of small businesses, a decrease in the number of new private high-tech firms with non-zero revenue, as well as an increase in anti-crisis support. The support provided has not yet led to normalization of the situation. The designated set of measures will create a certain level of attractiveness for the population in the small business sector, as well as stimulate the development of existing small businesses.Conclusions. The presented set of measures will make it possible to identify promising areas of regional economic development in the small business sector, which will contribute to economic growth in the region and increase the efficiency of the regional economy.

Regional economic or regional enterprise development has been subject to intense research by economists, planners, enterprise specialists and policy specialists for decades. The paper examines various models for regional economic or regional enterprise development and focuses on small towns and communities as an essential component of development. The paper reviews the role of entrepreneurs in enterprise strategies linked to towns and communities and the origins of entrepreneurs and strategies that might be adopted at the regional level to provide support for the entrepreneurial event. The results of a field study of over three hundred Australian regional development centres small enterprise clients, the strategies of those centres impact on entrepreneurs, reveal that the proposed objectives were not achieved and the strategies were in retrospect questionable. The paper concludes with recommended strategies for practitioners and policy makers dedicated to regional development and recognising the role of entrepreneurs in that process.

A rapid and substantial surge of regional growth can result in a highly uneven distribution of development across an urban region's localities. But the benefits of growth for local communities can be more evenly distributed. A growth model combining both infill and footloose components was used to analyse the differential job, tax base and population growth among the 365 contiguous municipalities of northern New Jersey for a period in the 1980s when the region gained 400000 jobs but only 150000 new residents. The growth analysis was followed by an examination of the distribution of six proposed benefit measures. The findings indicate a wider distribution of benefits than of growth per se, strong stability in the distribution of benefits among communities, significant gains for communities that grew most rapidly, and considerable benefits for communities that experienced little or no growth.

Drawing on studies and expertise from around the world, this book describes the transition from research to policy and covers the pre-requisites to successful new firm formation policies. At a time when a new firm formation is promoted by central and local government, business development agencies and the private sector, this book questions the economic dependence on small firms and explores the relevance of networking, information and advice