Polish regions in the age of a knowledge-based economy

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-85

  Zientara, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Economic liberalization; Innovation; Knowledge based economy; Newr egionalism; Poland; Regional development

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LIBERALIZATION; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONALISM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 41049102896     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00776.x     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Amin, N. and N. Thrift (1999) Institutional issues for European regions: from markets and plans to socioeconomics and powers of associations. In T. Barnes and M. Gertler (eds.), The new industrial geography, Routledge, London.
2. Amin, N. and N. Thrift (2002) Cities: Reimagining the urban. Polity Press, Cambridge.
3. Anselin, L., A. Varga and Z.J. Acs (1997) Local geographical spillovers between university research and high technology innovations. Journal of Urban Economics 42, 422-48.
4. Armstrong, H. and J. Taylor (2000) Regional economics and policy. Blackwell, Oxford.
5. Arrow, K.J. (1962) Economic welfare and the allocation of resources for invention. In R.R. Nielsen (ed.), The rate and direction of inventive activity, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
6. Asheim, B. (1996) Industrial districts as 'learning regions': A condition for prosperity. European Planning Studies 4.4, 379-400.
7. Bafoil, F. (1999) Post-Communist borders and territories. Conflicts, learning and rule building in Poland. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23.3, 567-82.
8. Barro, R.J. and X. Sala-I-Martin (1995) Economic growth. McGraw-Hill, New York.
9. BISER (2002) E-Europe regions -development model. Deliverable 3 of the BISER project. The Information Society Technology Programme, IST-2000-30187.
10. Boekema, F., K. Morgan, S. Bakkers and R. Rutten (2000) Introduction to learning regions; a new issue for analysis. In F. Boekema, K. Morgan, S. Bakkers and R. Rutten (eds.), Knowledge, innovation and economic growth: the theory and practice of learning regions, Cheltenham, Northampton.
11. Boschma, R. (2005) Proximity and innovation. A critical assessment. Regional Studies, 39.1, 61-74.
12. Breschi, S. and F. Lissoni (2001) Localised knowledge spillovers vs. innovative milieux: Knowledge 'tacitness' reconsidered. Papers in Regional Science 80, 255-73.
13. Carlsson, B. and R. Stankiewicz (1991) On the nature, function and composition of innovation systems. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 1.2, 93-118
14. Castells, M. (1996) The rise of the network society. Blackwell, Oxford.
15. Castells, M. (2001) The internet galaxy - reflections on the internet, business and society. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York.
16. Clark, M. (2001) Teleworking in the countryside: Home-based working in the information society. Ashgate, Aldershot.
17. Cooke, P. (ed.) (1995) The rise of the rustbelt. UCL Press, London.
18. Cooke, P. (2004) Introduction: Regional innovation systems - an evolutionary approach. In P. Cooke, M. Heidenriech and H.-J. Braczyk (eds.), Regional innovation systems: The role of governance in a globalized world 2nd edition, UCL Press, London.
19. Cooke, P. and K. Morgan (1998) The associational economy: Firms, regions and innovation. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
20. Cornford, C., A. Gillepsie, and R. Richardson (1996) Regional development in the information society: A review and analysis. Paper prepared for the EU High Level Expert Group on the Social and Societal Aspects of Information Society, CURDS, University of Newcastle.
21. Covin, J.G. and M.P. Miles (1999) Corporate entrepreneurship and the pursuit of competitive advantage. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice 16.1, 7-25.
22. Czarniawska, B. (1986) The management of meaning in the Polish crisis. Journal of Management Studies 23.3, 313-31.
23. Elam, M. (1993) Innovation as the craft of combination. Perspectives on technology and economy in the spirit of Schumpeter. PhD dissertation, Department of Technology and Social Change, Linkoping University.
24. Etzkowitz, H. (2001) The second academic revolution and the rise of entrepreneurial science. Technology and Society, 20.2, 18-29.
25. Eurostat (2006) Regions: Statistical yearbook 2006 [WWW document]. URL http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/ (last accessed 16 January 2007).
26. Field, J. (2003) Social capital. Routledge, London.
27. Feiock, R.C. (2007) Rational choice and regional governance. Journal of Urban Affairs 29.1, 47-63.
28. Florida, R. (2002) The rise of the creative class and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life. Basic Books, New York.
29. Friedel, R. (2007). A culture of improvement: Technology and the Western millennium. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
30. Gardner, H. (1993) Creating minds. Basic Books, New York.
31. Gillespie, A., R. Richardson and J. Cornford (2001) Regional development and the new economy. Paper presented at the EIB conference, Luxembourg, January 2001.
32. Graham, S. and S. Marvin (2001) Telecommunications and the city: electronic spaces, urban places. Routledge, London.
33. Hall, P.H. (1994) Innovation, economics and evolution: Theoretical perspectives on changing technology in economic systems. Harvester Wheatsheaf, New York.
34. Hudson, R. (1999) The learning economy, the learning firm and the learning region: A sympathetic critique of the limits to learning. European Urban and Regional Studies 6.1, 59-72.
35. Jacobs, J. (1969) The economy of cities. Vintage, New York.
36. Jaffe, A.B. (1989) Real effects of economic research. American Economic Review 79.5, 957-70.
37. Jensen-Butler, C.N. (1996) Theoretical framework for analysis of urban economic policy. In W.F. Lever and A. Baily (eds.), The spatial impacts of economic changes in Europe, Avebury, Aldershot.
38. Jones, M. and G. MacLeod (2004) Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29.4, 433-52.
39. Lang, W. (2005) Knowledge spillovers in different dimensions of proximity. Paper presented at the Regional Studies Association International Conference 'Regional Growth Agendas' in Aalborg, May 2005.
40. Lovering, J. (1999) Theory led by policy: The inadequacies of the new regionalism (illustrated from the case of Wales). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23.2, 379-95.
41. Lund, L. (1986) Locating corporate R&D facilities. Conference Board Report No. 892, Conference Board, New York.
42. Lundvall, B.A. and B. Johnson (1994) The learning economy. Journal of Industrial Studies 1.2, 23-42.
43. MacKinnon, D., A. Cumbers and K. Chapman (2002) Learning, innovation and regional development: A critical appraisal of recent debates. Progress in Human Geography 26.3, 293-311.
44. Malizia, E. and E. Faser (1999) Understanding local economic development. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick.
45. Marshall A. (1890) The principles of economics. Macmillan. London.
46. Marston, S.A., P. Knox and D.M. Liverman (2005) World regions in global context: Peoples, places and environments. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
47. Martin, R. and P. Sunley (2003) Deconstructing clusters: Chaotic concepts or policy panacea? Journal of Economic Geography 3. 1, 5-35.
48. Maskell, P. (2001) Social capital, innovation and competitiveness. In S. Baron, J. Field and T. Schuller (eds.), Social capital: Critical perspectives, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
49. Maskell, P. and G. Törnqvist (1999) Building a cross-border learning region. Handelshøjskolen Forlag, Copenhagen.
50. Millard, J. (2002) Rural areas in the digital economy. In D. Schmied (ed.), Winning and losing: The changing geography of Europe's rural areas, Ashgate, Aldershot.
51. Morgan, K. (1997) The learning region: Institutions, innovation and regional renewal. Regional Studies 35.5, 491-503.
52. Moulaert, F. and F. Sekia (2003) Territorial innovation models: A critical survey. Regional Studies 37.3, 289-302.
53. OECD (2001a) Cities and regions in the new learning economy. OECD Education and Skills, Paris.
54. OECD, (2001b) Information and communication technologies and rural development. OECD, Paris.
55. Ostrom, E. (2005) Understanding institutional diversity. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
56. Pastor, M., P. Dreier, E. Grigsby and M. Lopez-Garza (2000) Regions that work: How cities and suburbs can grow together. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
57. Porter, M. (1990) The competitive advantage of nations. Macmillan, London.
58. Purcell, M. (2004) Regionalism and the liberal-radical divide. Antipode 36, 760-765.
59. Putnam, R.D. (1995) Bowling alone: America's declining social capital. Journal of Democracy 6.1, 65-78.
60. Qvortrup, L. (1995) Information society and regional development - the European experience. In B. Jæger and K. Storgaard (eds.), Telematics and rural development, Research Centre of Borholm, Nexo.
61. Rodrigues-Pose, A. (2001) Killing economic geography with a 'cultural turn' overdose. Antipode 33.2, 176-82.
62. Romer, P (1986) Increasing returns and long-run growth. Journal of Political Economy 94.5, 1002-37.
63. Schumpeter, J. (1936) The theory of economic development. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
64. Shapiro, C. and H.R. Varian (1998) Information rules: A strategic guide to the network economy. Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge MA.
65. Simmie, J. (1997) Innovation, networks and learning regions? Regional policy and development. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, RSA, London.
66. Simmie, J. (2003) Innovation and urban regions as national and international nodes for the transfer and sharing of knowledge. Regional Studies 37. 607-20.
67. Smith, D.B. (2006) Living with Leviathan. The Institute of Economic Affairs, London.
68. Smith, K. (2000) What is the 'knowledge economy?' Knowledge-intensive industries and distributed knowledge bases. CORDIS, Luxemburg.
69. Spławski, M and Zybertowicz, A. (2006) Is social dialogue an alien organism in Polish social life? Dialog June, 16-22.
70. Storper, M. (1997) The regional world, territorial development in a global economy. The Guildford Press, New York.
71. Te Velde, R.A. (1999) Market for knowledge: Where do minds meet?. Paper presented at the EAEPE conference 'Inequality and Integration', November, Prague.
72. Tischner, J. (1992) The ethics of Solidarity. Homo sovieticus. Znak, Kraków.
73. Trigilia, C. (2001) Social capital and local development. European Journal of Social Theory 4.4, 427-42.
74. Tura, T. and V. Harmaamkorpi (2005) Social capital in building regional innovative capability. Regional Studies 39.8, 1111-25.
75. Vaitheeswaran, V. (2007) Something new under the sun. Economist 8550, 3-24.
76. Weisberg, R.W. (1993) Creativity: Beyond the myth of genius. W.H. Freeman, New York.
77. World Bank (2007) Doing business 2007 - how to reform [WWW document]. URL http://www.doingbusiness.org/documents/ Doing_Business_2007_Country_pages.pdf/ (last accessed 15 August 2007).
78. World Economic Forum (2006) Global competitiveness index [WWWdocument]. URL http://www.weforum.org/pdf/Global_Competitiveness_Reports/Reports/ gcr_2006/top50.pdf/ (last accessed 18 February 2007).