A Review of Regional Development Theory

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie H. Kool
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Theory

UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND SMEs IN EMERGING HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES: THE CASE OF OPTO-ELECTRONICS

2000 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 51-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRIS HENDRY ◽  
JAMES BROWN ◽  
ROBERT DEFILLIPPI
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Emerging Industries ◽  
Process Understanding ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Technology Industries ◽  
Industry Life Cycles ◽  
High Technology Industries ◽  
Centres Of Expertise

It has long been recognised that the innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities of the small medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector can make an important contribution to the commercialisation of emerging technologies. In their role as centres of expertise and originators of new technical knowledge, universities are vital contributors to this process. Understanding the nature of relationships between universities and SMEs is therefore important, particularly in view of the fact that current theories on regional development suggest that concentrations of SMEs in certain regions, clustered around one or more university centres, can be effective locations for accelerating this process. As a counter to regional development theory, an alternative viewpoint is that the way emerging industries develop is affected more by the dynamics of industry life-cycles. The opto-electronics sector, which is characterised by regional clusters in the UK and USA, offers lessons for how SMEs and universities interact against a backdrop of these theories.

scholarly journals Review of the Volume ”Dezvoltarea regională. Teorie și practică” [Regional Development. Theory and Practice], Author: Daniela Antonescu, Lumen Publishing House, 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Felix Angel POPESCU ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Regional Development Policies ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
National Governments

Regional development is a field of research and a discipline of study that transcends several fields of social sciences, and can be studied by students in the fields of administrative, political, economic, social and humanistic sciences and others that include this subject in the curriculum. Regional development is also an attribute of public administration in all Member States of the European Union, as well as outside Europe, with ministries dedicated to implementing balanced regional development policies. Therefore, the book written by the author Daniela Antonescu, “Dezvoltarea regională. Teorie și practică” [Regional development. theory and practice], published by Lumen Publishing House in Iași, Romania, in 2019, who I consider a great specialist in this field (as she is the organizer of a conference on this topic, that attracts specialists from Romania and abroad), addresses a broad public of readers: both researchers and teachers concerned with development issues, as well as civil servants, members of national governments or parliaments, MEPs, members of other international fora, concerned with regional development, which includes not only the region as a territory but also subdivisions at local level: county, municipality / city, commune, village, on a case-by-case basis.

scholarly journals Periphery syndrome - a reinterpretation of regional development theory in a resource periphery

2013 ◽  
Vol 166 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markku Tykkyläinen
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Past History ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Peripheral Region ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Performance Potential ◽  
Poor Growth

A study is made of industrialization and the transition in economic structure as it has affected a remote peripheral region of Finland with a predominantly resource‑based economy over the last twenty years or so. The empirical resultsare used to interpret and develop theory of regional development adequate for describing the transition of this peripheral region from an area dominated by primary‑sector production to one characterized by industry and the service sec­tor. The resource‑based peripheral region concerned is the province of Northern Karelia. A region‑level core‑periphery system is outlined in which the organization of the economy, the division of labour, performance potential and environmental relations are examined by regional and spatial analysis and resource analysis. A model is developed for evaluating the performance potential of an economy and proposing alternative paths of development. Development in a periphery is regulated by external impulses (demand, regional policy, etc.) together with the distinctive features imposed on the economy by its past history. This development can be explained by reference to rationaliza­tion in resource processing sectors, profitability difficulties, poor growth propen­sity and special characteristics of the division of labour and the adoption of new technology. The combined effect of these factors, termed here the periphery syn­drome, leads to differences in affluence and in general to regional differentia­tion in the economy. The syndrome is dynamic in nature. The principal problems following the economic transition are shifting away from rationalization in agricul­ture and towards the structure of industry itself. The resource periphery is be­coming an industrial periphery. The conclusions comprise a set of eight conceptual systems of factors which should be taken into account when studying economic transition and industriali­zation in peripheral regions. These concern development with respect to popula­tion, rationalization, regional policy, the spatial division of labour, spatial cost structures, demand, entrepreneurship and resource and environment factors and the influence of these on regional development in the periphery in question. The differences in development between the sectors of industry are of sig­nificance for regional development as a whole, and allowance should be made for these in the theory. Where theories of development in resource peripheries tend to represent outcomes of a number of external and internal factors and ones applying to individual sectors, the explanatory model evolved here comprises theo­retical concepts of a number of different types.

Urban Labour Productivity and Regional Development Strategies

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-461
Author(s):  
L H Wang ◽  
S L Wong
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
The Common ◽  
Regional Development Strategies

This paper, using the manufacturing industry of Peninsular Malaysia as a case study, reveals that the common assertion of a positive relationship between labour productivity and urban size may have exceptions, particularly in developing economies. Attempts are made to explain such a discrepancy and to examine the problem of regional development strategies and spatial underdevelopment in a Third World context. It is argued that a more careful approach to the conceptualization of spatial structure and processes is needed if it is to contribute to the formation of a regional development theory from which appropriate regional development strategies can be derived.

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