Regional inequalities represent an ever present development challenge in most countries especially those with large geographic areas under their jurisdictions. Globalization heightens these challenges as it places a premium on skills. With globalization skills rather than the resource base of regions determine their competitiveness. Skilled workers gain at the expense of unskilled ones. As typi...

Society seems more complex molecular biology itself, depleting the model of the double helix so far valid model to explain the DNA – Desoxiribo Nucleid Acid, essential for understanding the structure and activity of the DNA and heredity. The innovation of the triple helix is now required to explain the relations between the academy, industry and government. Innovation has become the decisive ch...

The concept of eco-efficiency is here presented as a valuable contribution to a sustainable regional development in the European Union. Eco-efficiency and dematerialization strategies are more and more established at the business level where practical and easily understandable methods and management tools have been developed and applied in the past years and decades. On this (micro) level, case...

In the fast globalizing world, the combined effect of small market size, weak institutions, low human development, worsening terms of trade, persistent conflict and poor investment climate, pan-African cooperation as enshrined in the African Economic Community and NEPAD has been designated by African governments as the best overall framework for accelerating African development in the 21 centur...