Despite globalization and assumed institutional convergence, regions remain distinctive in its rules, norms, business practices, and regional culture. This paper examines the role of regional legacy for information technology entrepreneurship, with a survey of two regions in Japan. The study of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, both considered entrepreneurial seedbeds in contemporary Japan, indicate that ev...

Asia Pacific is one of the 6 regions of the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca). It is a region with 16 full and 2 associate members coming from 14 countries. One of the main activities in the region is the regional conference highlighted by the Wes Fabb Oration.This Fourth Wes Fabb Oration has a historical perspective and three main parts: the results of a cross sectional survey done ...

This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying spatial panel data techniques. The empirical analysis of Spanish provinces between 1980 and 2007 confirms the positive impact of human capital on regio...

This paper examines convergence of real GDP per capita in the selected East Asian countries and this relationship with selected Middle East countries during the period 1950-2009. The reason behind this refers to the fact that East Asia countries (including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and South Korea) have been involved in achieving success arising from regi...

The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980–2000. They are all federations or quasi-federations composed of entities with substantial economic autonomy. Two types of regional inequalities are considered: Concept 1 inequality, which is inequality between mean ...

is precompact in the C1,α topology. Here R denotes the Riemann curvature tensor, vol the volume and diam the diameter of (M,g). Thus, for any sequence of metrics gi on n-manifolds Mi satisfying (1.1), there is a subsequence, also called gi, and diffeomorphisms φi : M∞ → Mi such that the metrics φi gi converge in the C 1,α topology to a limit metric g∞ onM∞, for any α < 1. In particular, there a...