As contained in her national development mission, Malaysia is expected to become a developed and high income economy by 2020. A mission favourably referred to as the Vision 2020. The realisation of such a noble goal will not come on a silver platter. Perhaps this awareness underscores the identification of certain sectors of the economy by the Malaysian government as key to achieve this develop...

Purpose – This paper proposes the concepts of Communities of Enterprise (CoEs) and Virtual Communities of Enterprise (VCoEs) to describe business networking patterns in regional areas where there is no central organisational or industry focus and small and medium enterprises dominate the economy. Design/methodology/approach – Based on analysis of the literature this paper builds on theoretical ...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in the US Department of Commerce makes regional economic impact multipliers available through its Regional Input‐Output Modeling System (RIMS II). These multipliers allow users to estimate the extent to which a one‐time or a sustained change in economic activity will be supplied by industries within a region and, consequently, how this change in economy act...

We measure synergy for the Russian national, provincial, and regional innovation systems as reduction of uncertainty using mutual information among the three distributions of firm sizes, technological knowledge-bases of firms, and geographical locations. Half a million data at firm level in 2011 were obtained from the OrbisTM database of Bureau Van Dijk. The firm level data were aggregated at t...

There are new changes and features existing in the regional logistics system and regional economic system under the background of industrial transfer. On one hand, the two influence each other. On the other hand, the two also adapt to each other. From the organizational perspective of synergetic theory, the research regards the regional logistics system and regional economic system as a whole s...

Globalisation, perhaps paradoxically, implies increased regionalisation: nation states come more and more to resemble regions of the global economy as international factor mobility increases. The present paper presents a new perspective on the modelling of regional economies. The fixed-cost element of public infrastructure is emphasised: this allows both the tax-base effect and congestion to be...

Africa holds 15 % of world’s population with an across sector infrastructure investments average returns of 15 to 20%. The diverse location of people living within the continent makes intercity, interstate, or inter-country transactions difficult and where it does happens, comes with huge transaction cost. This creates a wide gap in Africa’s regional economy, resulting in wide spread of poverty...

Although ecosystems provide myriad services to economies, only one service is considered in most renewable-resource models. The general equilibrium bioeconomic model introduced here admits a second service, and more importantly it accounts for how the two services are impacted by interactions within an eight-species ecosystem and interactions within a regional economy. Endangered Steller sea li...

Research funding, promotions, and career trajectories are currently increasingly dependent on the emerging economy of publication and citations (EPC) across the globe. Such an economy encourages scholars to publish in international journals that are indexed in databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. These developments place an increased emphasis on the question of who is allowed to publish...