Spatial Change and Interregional Flows in the Integrating Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Economic Integration in the Baltic Rim

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Structural Shifts? Sketches of the Regional Economic Development in Denmark

      • Nils Groes

      Pages 3-12

   3. Regional Economic Integration in the Baltic Rim: Towards a European Region after Ten Years of Transition?

      • Andreas P. Cornett

      Pages 13-27

   4. From Vision to Action: Spatial Development in Europe and Around the Baltic Sea

      • Hans-Peter Gatzweiler, Wilfried Görmar

      Pages 29-40

   5. Potential Labour Mobility between the Baltic States and Sweden

      • Lars Olof Persson

      Pages 41-48

   6. Economic Integration and Transport Infrastructure in the Baltic Sea Area

      • Johannes Bröcker, Frank Richter

      Pages 49-59

   7. Infrastructure and Mobility in the Baltic Sea Region

      • Siamak Baradaran, Lars Lundqvist

      Pages 61-73

   8. Sweden and the Baltic Sea Region: Transaction Costs and Trade Intensities

      • Scott Hacker, Börje Johansson

      Pages 75-85

3. Infrastructure and the Regions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Public Research Institutions in Regional Innovations Systems: Assessment and Outline of a Research Agenda

      • Michael Fritsch

      Pages 89-100

   3. Regional Innovation Networks. Some Theoretical Remarks

      • Joachim Genosko

      Pages 101-115

   4. Urban Agglomeration and Regional Development Policies in an Enlarged Europe

      • Riccardo Cappellin

      Pages 117-129

   5. Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Diffusion and Regional Growth

      • Dirk Dohse

      Pages 131-142

   6. Regional Development in a Restructuring Economy. the Examples of the Urban Areas of Kiel and Nuremberg

      • Uwe Mien, Alexandros Tassinopoulos

      Pages 143-153

   7. Migration and the Efficiency of European Labour Markets

      • Suie Akkoyunlu, Roger Vickerman

      Pages 157-170

4. Economic Integration, Trade and Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Regional Market Areas at the EU Border

      • Klaus Schöler

      Pages 171-180

   3. Specialization and Concentration in the European Union, 1965–1985

      • Jan A van der Linden, Jan Oosterhaven

      Pages 181-200

   4. Vertical Specialization and Interregional Trade: Turbulence Analogy and Feedback Loops Analysis of the Midwest Economy

      • Michael Sonis, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Yasuhide Okuyama

      Pages 201-211

Within the broad frame of regional research in an international perspective, the contributions of this volume present new theoretical, methodological and empirical results as well as political strategies for the following topics:
- ecomomic integration in the Baltic rim,
- innovation and regional growth,
- economic integration, trade and migration,
- transport infrastructure and the regions.
Most of the topics deal with the long-term integration process in Europe, with a particular focus on the North European and Baltic Sea integration.

• Baltic Rim
• Baltische Staaten
• Economic Development
• Economic Integration
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• Europäische Integration
• Infrastructure
• Infrastruktur
• Integration
• Migration
• Urban Areas
• Ökonomische Integration

• Institut für Wirtschaft und Verkehr, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

  Johannes Bröcker

• Institute for Regional Research, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  Hayo Herrmann

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