(Re)appraising place-based economic development strategies

Strategies for Aging in Place

Economic Integration and Development Strategies: A Theoretical Perspective

Economic integration creates two different forces on industrial location: dispersion and agglomeration forces. The dispersion force relocates industries across integrated countries according to each country’s comparative advantage and achieves the static efficiency of resource allocation. In contrast, the agglomeration force serves as a dynamic source of industrialization but at the same time, ...

The Case for Regional Development Intervention: Place- Based versus Place-Neutral Approaches

The paper examines the debates regarding place-neutral versus place-based policies for economic development. The analysis is set in the context of how development policy thinking on the part of both scholars and international organizations has evolved over several decades. Many of the previously accepted arguments have been called into question by the impacts of globalization and a new response...

Component Based Development - Where is the Place for Formalization ?

A software component has a contract that specifies its properties and thus define conditions for its use. The contract is an obvious object for formalization. It could assist in conformance checking for manufactured components and in checking consistent use of them in a concrete system. However, our experience with development of a complex, software intensive system with heterogeneous component...

Strategies for the Service Market Place

We describe a number of strategies for a future service oriented market place. We describe the SLA’s role within the service framework, and how it enables customers to make value judgements regarding the quality of a service. We also discuss the complexity of too much choice from both the customer and provider points of view, and advocate a “discrete offer” approach. We discuss the “cost of neg...