Economic drivers in cross-border regional innovation systems

Cross-border Regions in Europe Significance and Drivers of Regional Cross-border Co-operation

The 1990s have seen a strong surge in the number of cross-border regions all over Western and Eastern Europe. The article analyses the emergence of these local cross-border institutions in public governance by addressing their context, dimensions and causal underpinnings. First, it offers a brief background on the history of cross-border regions in Europe and related EU policies to support them...

Cross-Border Innovation in

Fair trade is a means of governing South-North supply chains to increase the benefits of international trade integration for poor southern producers of agricultural and handicraft goods. Although the approach itself is arguably innovative in comparison with commercially orientated supply chains, many consider that its formalisation within third-party, Fairtrade International certification, has ...

Essays on Firm Performance, Innovation, and Cross-Border Economic Activity

Cross-border regional innovation systems: Conceptual backgrounds, empirical evidence and policy implications

The concept of cross-border regional innovation systems (CBRIS) surfaced in the literature on economic geography through discourses that highlighted the need of broadening innovation systems to cross-border contexts. Since these early discussions, the theoretical backgrounds of CBRIS have been elaborated through notions of geographical scale, proximity and related variety in a range of conceptu...

Regional Drivers of Economic Growth

The purpose of this report is to discuss the economic performance of the Richmond metropolitan area and to explore some of the drivers of regional growth. The Richmond metropolitan area is compared to a peer group of metropolitan areas of similar size based on population in 2010. In addition, a second exercise for benchmarking Richmond focused on other state capitals. Although this summary does...