Systemic technology policies: Issues and instruments

In this Introduction, we review the arguments that underpinned the workshop on which the special section is grounded and provide a structured sequence for the contents of the seven selected papers that comprise the section.     

生态经济区建设原理初探

生态经济区建设原理的探讨是适应当前国内蓬勃发展的生态经济省（市）建设的要求,本文就生态经济区的概念,内容,区域生态位和“发展位”,及以为生态创新的概念和作用进行了探讨。其中特别突出了关于生态经济区建设的重要意义和生态文化建设的看法。     

中国农村贫困地区可持续发展分析

贫困是经济、社会、生态均有待提高的综合体,如果只注重单一方面的脱贫,忽视其它两个方面,扶贫的效益仍然是不经济的,还会损害子孙后代的福利,是不可持续的,极易返贫,反贫困必须从经济、社会、生态三方面进行综合治理,才能脱贫致富,走上可持续发展的道路。     

我国省际边界区域的研究进展及展望

省际边界区域既是省级经济政策的交汇区,又是区域摩擦的集中地,空间协调难度较大,统筹发展难点较多,是和谐社会建设所面临的重大问题之一。我国省际边界区域研究内容主要包括边界区域的理论内涵、影响因素、产业发展、空间组织结构模型、空间管治以及发展战略和对策等。这些研究多以现状的描述为主,并没有形成完整的理论体系。在全球化、网络化和信息化以及科学发展观的背景下,省际边界区域已成为我国区域统筹发展的重点,在今后的研究中要重视探讨以“边界效应”理论为基础的边界区域经济学,深入分析省际边界区域的产业分工与合作,深化研究省际边界区域空间结构演化及优化路径,加快构建省际边界区域协调发展的定量系统模型,科学完善省际边界区域协调发展理论体系。     

Employment effects of business dynamics: Mice, Gazelles and Elephants

Much of the theoretical work on industry dynamics focuses on the role of ‘noisy’ selection and incomplete information on firm entry and survival. We extend this research by looking at the impact of firm heterogeneity on employment effects for 320 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA). We find that only start-ups with greater than 20 and less than 500 employees have persistent employment effects over time and only in large diversified metropolitan regions. Therefore, both the type of entry (Gazelles) and the characteristics of the region are important for employment growth.

Real Existing Regionalism: The Region between Talk,Territory and Technology

In this essay, we propose the notion of real existing ‘lived’ regionalism as a rejoinder to the normative and ideological debates around new regionalism. Regional forms have shown little convergence in this age of globalized regionalization. Instead of an ideational construct or set of predictable practices, we argue that regionalism is a contested product of discourses (talk), territorial relationships (territory) and technologies (material and of power). The concept of real existing regionalism confronts the tensions between the discursive constructions and normative interventions characterizing much current regionalist debate and the territorial politics and technologies reflecting, generating and directing new state spatial strategic choices. The essay demonstrates the utility of the real existing regionalism framework through an analysis of the greenbelt, transport planning and post‐ suburbanization in Southern Ontario. We argue that regulatory institutions capture the Toronto region in a mix of rhetorical and technological change that complies with neither preconceived notions of regionalization nor the pessimism of total regional dysfunctionality. Rather, the lived experience of regionalization illuminates the emergent assemblages, multiplicity of everyday flows and ongoing multiscalar negotiations of diverse communities that produce the real existing region.     

沿海欠发达地区经济联动开发模式研究——以江苏沿海开发为例

区域经济联动发展作为一种区域经济合作方式,受到密切关注。沿海欠发达地区面对经济高地的压力,要紧紧抓住其发展机遇,充分挖掘自身优势,打造新的经济发展模式,才能赶超经济发达地区。本文在总结国内区域经济联动发展理论与实践的基础上,提出沿海欠发达地区要建立多角度、多层次的经济联动开发模式。首先要实现城市联动,通过不断强化中心城市的集聚、扩散作用和壮大县域经济实力,打造经济中心与腹地经济联动发展的沿海经济圈;其次要实现产业联动,通过传统特色产业与新兴高科技产业联动和陆地产业与海洋产业联动相结合,打造支柱产业与新兴产业联动发展的沿海经济带;还要实现＂港口-城镇-产业＂联动,通过港口与城镇联动和港口与产业联动,打造港口、产业和城镇三位一体的港口经济区。希望可以为沿海欠发达地区的经济发展提供理论依据和借鉴参考。     

基于改进模糊综合评价模型的区域科技创新能力评估——以河南省为例

针对目前区域科技创新能力评价研究中存在的问题,依据模糊数学理论,构造了一种改进的多层次模糊综合评价模型。通过建立区域科技创新能力评价指标体系,利用改进的模糊综合评价模型对河南省的区域科技创新能力进行了综合评价。实证结果表明,该模型不但可以在整体上对河南的科技创新能力进行综合评价,而且能够从不同侧面反映河南省科技创新的优势和劣势,具有较好的科学性和实用性,是一种评估区域科技创新能力的有效方法。     

区际产业转移对落后地区旅游产业发展的影响——以广西的承接方向选择和贺州的旅游业为例

依据目前中国东部地区、尤其是广东产业方面的基本情况及广西自身的产业发展现状和其他方面的相关条件,现阶段的广西在承接中国东部地区产业转移的过程中,首先可利用广西的特有区位和特有资源,将区域发展战略上升为国家战略,从而为广西经济发展和产业演进提供有效的触发器。其次,由于广西的旅游资源十分丰富,因此积极发展旅游业不仅有助于强化对东部发达地区产业转移的承接,而且东部发达地区的产业转移在相当程度上也会促进广西旅游业自身的发展;实践中这一点在广西贺州旅游产业的发展过程中就表现得十分明显。     

Spatio-temporal determinants of the structural and productive transformation of regions in Central and East European countries

This paper investigates the determinants of the structural (between-sectoral) and productive (within-sectoral) transformation of 56 NUTS2 regions in Central and East European (CEE) countries over the 2008–2014 period. Over the analysed period, a transformation of the analysed regions has taken place towards the tertiary sector and high value-added activities. The results from a spatial panel Durbin analysis reveal the existence of product-space linkages and point to a productive transformation towards high technology-intensive activities as an important driver of industrial development. Equal access to digital infrastructure in urban and rural areas and transfer of skills, knowledge and resources through the inflow of foreign investment and imports of production inputs increase the contribution of manufacturing to regional employment. The effect of profit tax reductions on the share of manufacturing employment is about five times larger than the effect of government subsidies to production.