Biological pharmaceutical industry not only has the continuous pulling action to region economy, also makes a positive contribution on the human productivity and quality of life. Biological pharmaceutical industry will become the leading industry of the century in quite a long time in the future. Taking Shijiazhuang as an example, according to the regional biopharmaceutical industry planning ne...

Revised version of a paper presented at the Trinational Institute on Innovation, Competitiveness and Sustainability organized by the Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology of Simon Fraser University and held at Whistler, B.C. on August 14-21 1994. This version is to be published in R. Anderson et al. National and Regional Innovation Systems in a Global Context: The North American ...

A detailed investigation on the production, processing and sales of Sichuan agricultural products was made. Issues like how to bring into full play the regional advantages of Sichuan agricultural products and how to promote the advantageous resource allocation and competitiveness of agricultural products in market economy were also probed. Suggestions and schemes for the e-commerce service syst...

Business networking strategies and especially co-operation in logistics is gaining momentum for individual companies in order to survive in competitive markets. As regional transport bundling is a powerful approach to optimize cost structures, this publication deals with the conceptual design and evaluation of cross-company logistics models. For this purpose, a simulation and evaluation model i...

National, regional and international competitiveness of an economy is increasingly connected to the presence of an environment supportive of innovation and risktaking. Innovation is gaining prominence on agendas of governments throughout the world who increasingly appreciate the need to develop knowledge-based economies as a prerequisite to competitiveness and growth. Given this recognition, it...

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 ...

Regional competitiveness is a policy priority of the European Union. This article explores cross-border knowledge transfer for regional integration and development. The focus of this research is the role of cross-border co-operation in development of innovative forms of co-operation, initiating and supporting knowledge transfer. The article presents a theoretical-methodological analysis of new ...