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Open Access 22-04-2024 | Original Paper

Beyond ownership: assessing diverse housing typologies and policy interventions for affordable housing in Dilla, Ethiopia

This research addresses global housing crisis, a secondary city of Dilla in Ethiopia as a case study. This study seeks to fill the empirical knowledge gap in popular housing typologies and tenure types in urban development in the Global South …

Authors:
Minna Sunikka-Blank, Engida Esayas Dube, Selamawit Teku

Open Access 04-04-2024 | Original Paper

Advancing inclusive innovation policy in the UK’s second-tier city-regions

The UK exhibits stark regional economic divides which have been a long running concern for policymakers. With the levelling up agenda taking shape, city-regions in the UK are developing innovation and business support policies in seeking to …

Authors:
Katherine Parsons, Rick Delbridge, Elvira Uyarra, David Waite, Robert Huggins, Kevin Morgan

04-04-2024 | Original Paper

Place-based strategies for sustainable and inclusive regional development in the south of Mexico

In many countries the growth of significant regional economic disparities has created a geography of discontent. Looking at left-behind places in less developed countries is critical because of the wider economic, social, and political …

Author:
Alejandra Trejo Nieto

Open Access 20-02-2024 | Original Paper

What hampers research collaboration in a region?

The perspective of various stakeholders from ten German regions

Research collaboration is an important instrument for innovation and knowledge transfer. In this respect, barriers that prevent or impede research collaboration between research institutions and companies are of particular importance. In this …

Authors:
Tobias Johannes Hertrich, Thomas Brenner

Open Access 07-02-2024 | Original Paper

Horizon Europe: a green window of opportunity for european peripheral regions?

An emerging field of research suggests that the policy and societal pressures for a green transition represent a “green window of opportunity” for peripheral regions. These regions often lag behind in overall innovation performance and may suffer …

Authors:
Patricia Peñalosa, Carolina Castaldi

Open Access 19-01-2024 | Original Paper

Familiar but also radical? The moderating role of regional clusters for family firms in the emergence of radical innovation

Family firms are widely acknowledged to be the most predominant form of organization and hold a great relevance in most economies. Nevertheless, despite their popularity, research has thus far yielded inconsistent findings with regard to their …

Author:
Nils Grashof

20-10-2023 | Original Paper

Scientific collaborations within urban areas: the case of İstanbul

Scientific research has increasingly been becoming a group effort, which has been the main driving force in the growth of scientific productivity. While there have been multiple contributions toward intercity and interregional interactions in the …

Authors:
A. Tuncer, F. Gezici

Open Access 17-07-2023 | Original Paper

Combining knowledge bases for small wins in peripheral regions. An analysis of the role of innovation intermediaries in sustainability transitions

A growing number of economic geography scholars have discussed the spatial dimensions of sustainability transitions (STs), which entail radical changes in socio-technical systems to overcome societal, economic, and ecological problems. This …

Authors:
Christoph Friedrich, Daniel Feser

21-06-2023 | Original Paper

The relevance of scientific knowledge externalities for technological change and resulting inventions across European metropolitan areas

Contrary to perceptions in which technological development proceeds independently of scientific research, the interplay between science and technology has been recognized as an essential part in technological change, industrial competitiveness …

Authors:
Hyunha Shin, Dieter F. Kogler, Keungoui Kim

Open Access 14-03-2023 | Original Paper

The speed of internationalization in regionally clustered family firms: a deeper understanding of innovation activities and cluster affiliation

This article aims to explore how innovation activities and cluster affiliation moderate the relationship between family involvement and post-internationalization speed in family firms. Based on a sample of 639 Portuguese family businesses (FBs) …

Authors:
Telma Mendes, Vítor Braga, Carina Silva, Alexandra Braga