Export, logistics performance, and regional economic integration: Sectoral and sub-sectoral evidence from Vietnam

Export Performance in Small and Medium Enterprises in New South Wales: Sectoral and Regional Dimensions

Regional, Sectoral Innovation Systems

Today, knowledge economies are a key asset for global competitiveness. Biotechnology is a knowledge-driven sector because it consists of knowledge working on knowledge to create value, decoding in genomics and proteomics being paradigmatic knowledge-based economic activity. Like many other new economy industries such as information and communications technology, new media, and advanced finance,...

Economic Development and Sectoral Unions in China

Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in China’s Guangdong and Zhejiang Provinces, the author asks how postsocialist unions respond to worker unrest and why the development of sectoral-level bargaining has been uneven in different regions of China. While Zhejiang has had relative success in establishing the organizational infrastructure for sectoral bargaining, Guangdong has had little success despi...

The Life Science Exchange: a case study of a sectoral and sub-sectoral knowledge exchange programme

BACKGROUND Local and national governments have implemented sector-specific policies to support economic development through innovation, entrepreneurship and knowledge exchange. Supported by the Welsh Government through the European Regional Development Fund, The Life Science Exchange® project was created with the aim to increase interaction between stakeholders, to develop more effective knowle...

The Relation between Inflation and Regional Unemployment and Sectoral Income Growth Dispersion: Evidence from EU-Countries

Using data from 15 EU countries for 1974-2004, with various specifications and estimation methods this paper gives strong support to the idea that the aggregate inflation-output gap or inflation-unemployment rate relationship is not linear because inflation is relatively more sensitive to markets and regions that are close to a capacity constraint. Accordingly, inflation is not only related to ...