after globalization and advances in information and communications, two conflicting schools of thought in connection with the role of the place and geography emerged: the first school of thought, led to the doctrine of geography and location death parallel to the cyber advances, with a view to the reducing importance of place and physical proximity due to the emergence of virtual interactions. ...

Based on the theories of regional economics and industrial economics, the paper analyzed the development of China nonferrous metals industry, made summary of the current research on industrial competitiveness, built an evaluation index system from the four areas: scale competitiveness, market competitiveness, benefit competitiveness and export competitiveness. Then, with the tool of SPSS, the p...

The focus of the study is to explore regional specializations by focusing on regional key industries in Turkey. Turkey has seven geographical regions which are typically different with respect to economic development. The paper aims to identify key industries in each region which could further be explored to specify regional industry clusters. Clusters are interconnected enterprises and institu...

Over the past decade the economies of East Asia and APEC more generally have been increasinglyopening up their markets, and in the process have achieved significant gains in exports and economicgrowth. In conjunction with this increased economic integration, there has been increased recognitionby regional governments of the potential for a substantial increase in the participation by smallbusin...