Entrepreneurship and Territorial Cultural Projects: Towards a Development of Territorial Effectuation Concept

Territorial Assemblages Simulation for Territorial Intelligence

The following article is based on the theory of assemblage ontology seen as a framework to formalize new projects territories in a perspective of territorial intelligence. The area of research is PARIS-SACLAY Campus, which views the development of a world science cluster. The assemblages are simulating by means of simplicial complexes. Its objective is to offer new decision-making tools to terr...

Towards Territorial Privacy in Smart Environments

Territorial privacy is an old concept for privacy of the personal space dating back to the 19th century. Despite its former relevance, territorial privacy has been neglected in recent years, while privacy research and legislation mainly focused on the issue of information privacy. However, with the prospect of smart and ubiquitous environments, territorial privacy deserves new attention. Walls,...

Territorial Approach to Regional Rural Development Territorial Approach to Regional Rural Development

The paper reviews some of the key principles of a territorial approach to rural development and particular aspects of regional rural development. Some features of the EU Leader initiative were analysed as examples of the approach, and the social context and factors which may affect the application of these features in regional rural development were identified. The paper concludes by emphasisin...

On the Concept of Territorial Competitiveness: Sound or Misleading?

In a globalising economy, territories and not just Ž rms increasingly Ž nd themselves in competition with each other. In fact, unlike countries, cities and regions compete, in single currency areas, on the basis of an absolute advantage principle and not a comparative advantage principle. This means that no efŽ cient, automatic mechanism—like currency devaluation or prompt  exibility of wages ...

Regions as Networks: Towards a Conceptual Framework of Territorial Dynamics