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ENTREPRENEURIAL AND REGIONAL GROWTH ACTIVITY IN FINLAND
2010
Audretsch & Feldman (2004) argue that an agglomeration is a collection of localized firms with a common focus. As firms thrive, resources are attracted to the region. They state that, if entrepreneurship serves as a mechanism for knowledge spillovers, measures of entrepreneurial activity should be linked positively to regional growth performance. In Schumpeterian economics the engine of economic development is entrepreneurial innovation. Creative destruction makes way for new innovations and growth. In this study, we simultaneously examine the regional entrepreneurial activity and regional growth activity in Finland. A further aim of the study was to find out if entrepreneurial activit…
La dilution: note méthodologique pour l'analyse de l'étalement urbain
2004
La dilution se caracterise par une diminution de la densite du bâti en fonction de la distance au centre d’une ville. Le modele logistique semble une bonne synthese de ce continuum. Il presente un interet si l’on calcule la difference entre deux periodes. On met ainsi en evidence des logiques specifiques de croissance des agglomerations. Le modele dynamique permet de projeter les tendances d’ici 2010, 2020 ou 2030. Parallelement, on envisage par difference les logiques de dilution, ce qui nous permet de conclure a une extension previsible de l’aire de dilution et a un eloignement du point d’echauffement.
Les partis politiques en Grande-Bretagne
2013
National audience; La vie politique en Grande-Bretagne est marquée par l’une des histoires les plus riches et anciennes d’Europe, mais son originalité reste largement méconnue – surtout par le public francophone, qui la réduit trop souvent à l’affrontement des deux grands partis dominants : Labour et Tories.D’où le présent ouvrage qui analyse l’ensemble des partis politiques, en soulignant la force des changements intervenus récemment en Grande-Bretagne. Fondé sur une définition précise du parti politique, il tient compte des multiples dimensions des organisations partisanes (idéologie-valeurs, ressources, soutiens). Il insiste aussi sur la modernisation des grands partis majoritaires (New …
Aesthetic factors determining quality and comfort in childhood classroom
2016
This study analyses how school age children experience their educational environment. The objective is to collect the determining factors of aesthetic quality and comfort at school. A pluralistic methodology allows: gather both quantitative and qualitative data using photographic elicitation, and show the responses on an artistic way. Eighty-six children participate on this research; they are from 3 until 5 years old, and belong to rural and urban schools of Alicante. The results determine which places of school are more comfortable, pleasant and enjoyable in Early Childhood Education. Pupils are able to examine in a critically form their everyday educational activities and express their op…
The fall and the fragmentation of national clusters: Cluster evolution in the paper and pulp industry
2012
Abstract A common expectation in evolutionary cluster studies is that national clusters engage in competitive interactions that lead to a continuous stream of changes in global dominance. Our fuzzy-set analysis on the evolution of the paper and pulp industry demonstrates that globalization has dramatically changed this situation. National clusters have largely faded away; the value chain dominance is now held by technology suppliers who are global hubs in majority of identifiable business activities in the focal industry. Our results imply that when industrial decline is accentuated by industrial concentration in some part of the value chain the national clusters may lose their importance.
Overcoming the crisis : the changing profile and trajectories of Latvian migrants
2016
The work was funded by the National Research Programme [grant number 5.2.4] and the Latvian Council of Sciences [grant number 514/2012]. Taking mobility between Latvia and Western Europe as an empirical lens, this analysis explores the complex relationship between spatial disparities in earning potential and migration. The very dramatic shifts in the economic and political context against which migration from Latvia has occurred over the period 2004-2012 make it an especially apposite focus of research investigating the link between mobility and labour market circumstances. As an analytical starting point, conventional economic theory broadly explains the movement of workers from lower to h…
Spaces of encounter–displacement: contemporary labour migrants' return visits to latvia
2014
The context of this paper is return visits to the homeland of labour migrants in Europe. The paper draws on data from the author's ethnographic fieldwork on the island of Guernsey and in Latvia dur...
Pastoralists are peoples: Key issues in advocacy and the emergence of pastoralists' rights
2017
This article deals with the rights-based approach to development that in the last decade has informed discourse on pastoralism. It focuses on the organisations that have engaged in pastoral advocacy at the global level, considering the dynamic conceptions of development, human rights and policy that provide their cultural and operative background. It outlines the convergence of indigenous rights with the core challenges of pastoralism, and the emergence of the new concept of 'pastoralists' rights', eventually considered as a separate domain. It argues that the mobility paradigm of pastoral development may not by itself provide an adequate answer to the problems of pastoral communities, unle…
Planning in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies. Discussing the "label: Smart" in South-European cities with environmental and soci…
2016
In the last decades, planners have explored various approaches to sustainable urban planning and development. Scholars widely argued the limits to uncontrolled physical growth, to the exploitation of resources, and the necessity of finding alternatives. Within the general framework of sustainability, urban planners are in the search for approaches aimed at coping with current uncertainties that cities have to face, based on the deterioration of natural-socio-cultural environments and uncontrollable economic and financial flows. Notwithstanding, the rise of post-industrial urban economies has introduced Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as successful devices that are proposed…