The globalization and urban development concepts are closely linked to each other. However, all cities around the world are not affected same by globalization, each one has its spatial and reciprocal international-local action. The international changes of economy, culture, and politics have huge effects on restructuring of cities around the world. The present study as a descriptive-analytical ...

Even though the development planning in Iran has been applied since the 1940s, it has not still made much progress in terms of balanced development as well as the regional justice in development and a huge amount of human capital, financial and natural resources which are consumed, have obtained few achievements. Therefore, it seems necessary to examine and analyze critically the dominant appro...

The strategy for smart specialization university has been one of the main policies of the European Union in recent years to develop regional performance and economic growth through university systems. In spite of this, no research has been done to identify the components of this strategy. Accordingly, this study aimed to identify the components of the smart specialization strategy of higher edu...

Distribution of population and activity in space, called as spatial planning in development literature, is the main factor of balance and development in national and regional scale. This paper aims to evaluate the policy of small cities in regional development, the position of small cities in the western area of Zagros in population distribution, and job creation. Research method is descriptive...

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the impact of the university on regional development in Iran in the theoretical framework of the knowledge-based development ecosystem. This research was conducted with a descriptive approach, which is a practical and quantitative method. For the empirical analysis of ecosystem of the knowledge-based development and university assistance for regional dev...