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What is Regional Economic Development

Chapter 5
Smart Specialization Strategies and the Role of Entrepreneurial Universities
It is the process of economic development of a region through which a region is capable to improve its economic, political, and social welfare. Nowadays in the regional science this term is often used by the academician, policy-makers and regional development agency people to indicate the growth of a region.
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Smart Specialization Strategy: Does It Really Foster Regional Competitiveness? Smart Specialization and Regional Competitiveness
Nibedita Saha (Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic), Tomas Saha (Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic), and Petr Saha (Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 31
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6152-1.ch005
Abstract
This chapter deliberates the significance of smart specialization strategy and its impact on regional development that enable a region to become more creative and innovative. Consistently, the emergence of smart specialization strategy is the cornerstone of creating a unique platform for enhancing territorial competitiveness and knowledge-driven innovation center through promoting entrepreneurial universities within the region connected to the regional growth scheme. Therefore, the authors investigate what makes regions competitive. What fosters growth in one region may be under a bottleneck effect in another. This chapter represents an accessible approach for identifying competitors and their particular circumstances that discuss regional entrepreneurial discovery process and their competitiveness from a conceptual perspective.
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Chapter 17
Entrepreneurial Tourism: The Creation of Business Opportunities in the ADRIMAG Region, Portugal
Is the set of sustained, concerted actions taken by policy makers to promote the economic well-being and the standard of living of certain communities or regions. These actions may involve investing in infrastructure, social well-being, human capital, business development, among other initiatives.
Published in Chapter: Entrepreneurial Tourism: The Creation of Business Opportunities in the ADRIMAG Region, Portugal; From: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Success and its Impact on Regional Development
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Entrepreneurial Universities' Strategic Role in Accelerated Innovation for Regional Growth
In this chapter, regional economic development has been considered as the process of regions commercial development that facilitate to enhance and expand regional growth.
Published in Chapter: Entrepreneurial Universities' Strategic Role in Accelerated Innovation for Regional Growth; From: Examining the Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Regional Development
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Strategic Challenges of the Portuguese Molds Industry: A Sectoral Innovation Perspective
The set of sustained, concerted actions taken by policy makers to promote the economic well-being and the standard of living of certain communities or regions. These actions may involve investing in infrastructure, social well-being, human capital, business development, among other initiatives.
Published in Chapter: Strategic Challenges of the Portuguese Molds Industry: A Sectoral Innovation Perspective; From: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation Within Smart Cities
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