武汉城市圈的产业一体化

随着经济全球化和区域经济一体化的不断深入,区域产业协作已经成为区域经济发展的重要环节。中国城市与区域发展的重要趋势便是以大城市为核心的城市经济圈的迅速崛起。而城市经济圈形成和发展的核心是产业一体化。文中从分析武汉城市圈产业一体化的现状及内外在动力机制,使各市应该重点发挥自身的优势产业,在良性竞争的背景下,加强分工协作,提高生产效率,促进经济发展。     

An Empirical Model of Land Use Change in China

The aim of this paper is to develop an empirical model of land use change that integrates the growth of regional economy and land use change in a developing country such as China. The concept of ecological growth in terms of regional resources and population is introduced to make an empirical model of land use changes. It is shown that the model might be an efficient tool to analyze and predict regional land use change, and that the policies based on it can play an important role in land use change in China.     

Innovation in food firms: contribution of regional networks within the international business context

This paper explores the role of regional networks in processes of innovation within an international business context. It is hypothesized that firms participating in regional networks demonstrate a stronger innovation competence. Data are drawn from a survey among food firms in the region of Meetjesland, Belgium, and reflect the relation between the firm and a number of regional characteristics. After restructuring the data through factor analysis and cluster analysis, the important role of regional networking is revealed using discriminant analysis. The analysis marks out two factors having the strongest power to discriminate between the clusters: firms are classified as having a stronger innovation competence when networking within the region, and when orienting towards the international market. Results demonstrate that internationally operating firms benefit from regional networking. Further, it is argued that regional networking is not contradictory to an international market orientation, and that firms gain innovation competence by searching for external knowledge on different geographical scales. As these networks have the potential to enhance the innovation competence of firms, support to regional networking is promoted as a policy tool.     

苏北高铁建设对江苏区域经济的影响

高速铁路的建设对区域经济发展的影响是全面的,从江苏的区域经济系统的重组,形成新的区域经济体系。在未来运输体系中高铁会占有重要地位,带动整个区域运力的提升。苏北高铁建设将加快江苏区域经济的发展,降低整个物流成本,增加区域物流有效需求,加强区域经济的合作,提升城市功能和竞争力。     

Coefficient Change in Embedded Econometric and Input–Output Models at the Regional Level

This paper examines the nature of coefficient change in integrated econometric (EC) and input–output (IO) models that employ an embedding strategy. Existing approaches towards coefficient change in integrated models are first reviewed and several substantive processes that give rise to dynamic coefficients at the regional level are identified. The main sources of coefficient change arise from dynamic adjustment processes that affect the regional purchase coefficients, regional technological coefficients and regional integration parameters. Each of these sources of change requires a different treatment when adopting an EC perspective. A general framework is suggested that nests each treatment as a specific case. The different specifications are then implemented in an embedded EC and IO employment demand model for the San Diego region, and evaluated through a series of in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting experiments. Simulation performance is found to improve through the use of a time-varying integra tion parameter. The results also indicate that model performance is more sensitive to the use of dynamic regional purchase coefficients than to the use of dynamic technical coefficients.     

Using the Past to Construct Territorial Identities in Regional Planning: The Case of Mälardalen,Sweden

This study examines how the past is used in the construction of regional identity narratives in policy discourses and documents. Despite assumptions that regional identity is based on shared culture, some authors argue that new forms of regional identity have emerged as the consequence of regions’ involvement in wider networks. Identity has been pursued as an asset to regional attractiveness and economic growth and, as such, is shaped by regional development strategies concerning particular social groups. Socially shared representations of the past through history, cultural heritage and collective memory play an important role in this process, since the past is a powerful resource that may be used to construct images of places, legitimizing claims on territories. Document analysis and interviews with planners are used to analyse strategies for regional development in five counties located in the Mälardalen region, Sweden. This study shows that regional strategies are guided by narratives framing regions from an exclusive outside perspective, leaving internal qualities unnoticed. The past is used to structure these narratives and construct identities that serve economic growth rather than the integration of the plural heritages of the region.     

Regional Efficiency Wages: Are They a Source of Real Earnings Differentials?

This paper investigates the role of spatial efficiency wage premiums as a partial explanation for both inter-industry and geographic wage differentials. The empirical approach is based on an analysis of panel data for six select manufacturing industries operating within specific (U.S.) states. Besides testing for the existence of a regional "wage curve," this research adds to the evidence on traditional determinants of spatial wage differentials. An explicit treatment of regional cost-of-living conditions is unique to the analysis; also, industry wage structures are accounted for in explaining regional wage differences. The findings here contribute to an initial body of evidence on regional efficiency wages. The empirical evidence indicates that the relationship between regional wages (nominal or real) and the local unemployment rate is much more complex than implied by the wage curve.     

Acquaintance or partner? Social economy organizations,institutional logics and regional development in Australia

The social economy as a regional development actor is gaining greater attention given its purported ability to address social and environmental problems. This growth in interest is occurring within a global environment that is calling for a more holistic understanding of development compared to traditionally economic-centric conceptions. While regional development policies and practices have long considered for-profit businesses as agents for regional growth, there is a relatively limited understanding of the role of the social economy as a development actor. The institutional environment is a large determinant of all kinds of entrepreneurial activity, and therefore understanding the relationships between the social economy and broader regional development processes is warranted. This paper moves beyond suggestions of an economic-centric focus of regional development by utilizing institutional logics as a theoretical framework for understanding the role of social enterprises in regional development. A multiple case study of ten social enterprises in two regional locations in Australia suggests that social enterprises can represent competing logics to economic-centric institutional values and systems. The paper argues that dominant institutional logics can promote or constrain the inter-play between the social and the economic aspects of development, in the context of social enterprises.     

促进区域科技创新的财税激励机制探讨——以天津滨海新区为例

科技创新对区域经济的发展具有强大的支撑和引领作用,加强区域创新体系的建设,已成为推动我国区域经济发展的重要举措。而国家财税激励机制的健全和完善,是促进区域科技创新的有效手段之一。本文以天津滨海新区为例,阐述了财税政策激励区域科技创新的作用机理,分析了滨海新区科技创新的现状与区域经济发展的态势,提出了完善财税激励机制,促进区域科技创新与持续发展的建议。     

区域物流中心建设

区域经济的发展对物流业的发展提出了新的要求,物流业的发展反过来促进区域经济的发展。规范合理的物流业是以物流中心为枢纽的多辐射覆盖面广的网络体系,在这个体系中,区域物流中心的建设是物流系统优化中一个具有战略意义的重要问题。     

高质量发展视角下区域创新能力的提升路径 ——以南京市江宁区为例

我国经济已由高速增长阶段转变为高质量发展阶段,实现高质量发展是新时代我国经济发展的根本要求。高质量发展与创新驱动紧密关联,必须多举措协同提升区域创新能力。区域创新能力是指一个地区将知识转化为新产品、新工艺、新服务的能力,代表了创新要素在一定区域内聚集、整合以及推动区域可持续发展的基本能力。为了有效提升区域创新能力,必须强化区域创新的综合保障、构建区域创新综合生态体系、促进创新创业项目孵化与成果转化、强化区域制造业发展相关的创新活动等。以南京市江宁区为例对此进行了分析,该区积极实施战略科技引领计划,不断强化创新工作,通过促进区域创新平台建设、区域创新的服务支撑体系构建、高端创新资源在区域的聚集、区域制造业创新发展及合理布局等,不断增强区域创新能力,有效支撑了区域高质量发展。     

中国区域经济差距的变迁及政策调整建议

改革开放以来,中国区域经济差距经历了高—低—高—低的演变过程,区域差距明显缩小。东西差距虽呈现明显的下降趋势,但发展差距依然较大,且出现了区域分化等新问题。南北差距虽呈现扩大趋势,但仍低于东西差距。中国区域经济发展不平衡仍将长期表现为东西差距问题。因此,要全面落实区域协调发展战略,促进区域协调发展向更高水平和更高质量迈进,必须对现有区域政策进行合理调整。     

基于产业集群的福建区域品牌建设初探

产业集群的迅速发展对区域经济起了积极的推动作用,而区域品牌的建设有利于更好地促进产业集群的发展,但是当前在区域品牌的建设中仍存在种种的问题与缺陷。文中结合对福建省区域品牌建设的现状和存在问题的分析,对区域品牌的建设展开初步的探讨。     

Regional unemployment in Spain: Disparities,business cycle and wage setting

The existence and persistence of regional disparities in the unemployment rate is a common problem of many European economies. However, in Spain, this situation exhibits a characteristic feature: a strong positive relationship with the business cycle. The analysis in this paper investigates the relationship between this distinguishing feature of the Spanish economy and changes in the regional wage-setting mechanism, and how this relationship has influenced the aggregate Spanish labour market performance in the recent past. The empirical finding of an important regional imitation effect in wage bargaining may explain both the persistence of disparities, and the positive relationship between regional unemployment dispersion and the business cycle. This result has a direct implication for employment policies, which must take into account the regional dimension of the unemployment problem.     

区域经济一体化:现状、问题与对策

如何加强国内各区域间合作与发展,推动区域经济一体化,是当前理论研究与实践探索的一个热点问题。在看到我国区域经济一体化迅速发展的同时,我们也应当清醒地认识到,区域经济一体化是一项艰巨而复杂的系统工程。针对一体化进程中存在的问题,我们必须妥善处理好区域经济合作的战略、规划、机制、进程与矛盾等方面问题,实现统筹区域经济协调健康发展。     

区域物流与区域经济的关系

区域物流与区域经济是相互依存的统一体。区域物流是区域经济的重要组成部分，区域物流的发展会给区域经济提供良好的实体移动平台，而区域经济的发展又会促进区域物流的集约性、规模性，二者相互促进发展。     

Measuring Regional Economic Resilience across Europe: Operationalizing a complex concept

This paper describes an approach developed to measure regional economic resilience across Europe which is novel in three key dimensions. Firstly, it seeks to date regional downturns as opposed to assuming that all regional economies are affected by economic shocks at the same point in time; secondly, it measures the amplitude and duration of economic downturns and subsequent recoveries; and thirdly, as well as measuring recovery, it measures the resistance of regional economies to economic shocks. The paper applies this methodology to selected European countries to provide an analysis of differential regional responses to several economic shocks since the early 1990s. The paper then reflects upon the utility of this methodology for operationalizing regional economic resilience in cross-comparative studies.     

Entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness: The role and progression of policy

Regions have gained a position at the forefront of the economic development policy agenda. However, the regional approach to economic strategy remains contested. This paper tests the extent to which regional policy in less competitive regions is accounting for issues relating to entrepreneurship and enterprise development as a tool for improving regional competitiveness. It does so by examining policies undertaken by the UK Labour government 1997–2010, drawing on interviews with policy makers and an analysis of relevant policy documents. This paper finds that entrepreneurship policy at the regional level is multidimensional, with policies broadly ranging from those that are either economically or socially driven. Although there is a considerable policy activity in these areas across less competitive regions, enterprise policy making remains relatively undifferentiated across the regions. There are a number of evolutions in regional policy occurring, especially a shift from policies relating to the facilitation of clusters to those focused on developing regional innovation ecosystems. It is found that regional policy makers are under pressure to measure short-term outputs at the expense of long-term nurturing. The paper also finds that there is a tension between using enterprise policy as a tool for improving regional competitiveness or for addressing economic and social disadvantage.     

Regional engagement of locally anchored firms and its influence on socio-economic development in two peripheral regions over time

Abstract

This article sets out to explore the ways locally anchored firms in peripheral regions influence regional social capital through regional engagement and how this contributes to socio-economic development. Through regional engagement firms shape regional contexts by generating concrete outcomes, such as setting up schools (structural aspect) and by possibly influencing regional bonding and bridging social capital (social aspect). To examine the effects of regional engagement and its possible influence on bonding and bridging social capital of regional firms, an analytical framework is developed distinguishing between inclusive/exclusive agency for inclusive/exclusive benefit. This article focuses on regional engagement in two Swiss peripheral regions, which have followed different development paths in spite of their common institutional framework and geographical proximity. This study aims to gain insight into the ‘how’ of regional engagement and its influence on regional social capital and to examine the assumption of higher levels of regional social capital in a dynamic region from a long-term perspective (ca. 1850–2015). The findings of the qualitative research show that the dynamic Rhine Valley indeed disposes of higher levels of regional social capital than the less dynamic Toggenburg, which is related to the willingness of firms and other actors to collaborate for regional interests.     

浅析构建区域资本市场对区域经济发展的影响

区域经济是整个国民经济的基础,但各个区域由于历史,经济基础和国家政策等不同的原因,产生了发展不平衡的现象,现阶段最为突出的就是“中部塌陷”。一般来说,资本往往是区域经济发展中最稀缺的要素,而构建区域资本市场就是一条较好的途径。文章主要从区域资本市场的特点和规律出发,以及对区域经济的作用入手,对构建区域资本市场提出了建议。