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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.

For Karin Peschel

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Johannes Brocker

Part I: Economic Integration in the Baltic Rim

Structural Shifts? Sketches of the Regional Economic Development in Denmark

3

(10)

Nils Groes

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

13

(16)

Andreas P. Cornett

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

29

(12)

Hans-Peter Gatzweiler

Wilfried Gormar

Potential Labour Mobility between the Baltic States and Sweden

41

(8)

Lars Olof Persson

Economic Integration and Transport Infrastructure in the Baltic Sea Area

49

(12)

Johannes Brocker

Frank Richter

Infrastructure and Mobility in the Baltic Sea Region

61

(14)

Siamak Baradaran

Lars Lundqvist

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

75

(14)

Scott Hacker

Borje Johansson

Part II: Infrastructure and the Regions

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

89

(12)

Michael Fritsch

Regional Innovation Networks. Some Theoretical Remarks

101

(16)

Joachim Genosko

Urban Agglomeration and Regional Development Policies in an Enlarge Europe

117

(14)

Riccardo Cappellin

Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Diffusion and Regional Growth

131

(12)

Dirk Dohse

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

143

(14)

Uwe Blien

Alexandros Tassinopoulos

Part III: Economic Integration, Trade and Migration

Migration and the Efficiency of European Labour Markets

157

(14)

Sule Akkoyunlu

Roger Vickerman

Regional Market Areas at the EU Border

171

(10)

Klaus Scholer

Specialization and Concentration in the European Union, 1965-1985

181

(20)

Jan A. van der Linden

Jan Oosterhaven

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

201

(14)

Michael Sonis

Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

Yasuhide Okuyama

Part IV: Transport Infrastructure and the Regions

The Quality of the Transport Infrastructure in European Regions and the Influence of the Trans-European Net

215

(18)

Hans-Friedrich Eckey

Klaus Horn

Risk of Planning and Financing Infrastructure Projects: A Private-Public Nexus

233

(18)

Peter Nijkamp

Regional Integration of Transport and Communications Systems in Southern Africa

251

(12)

Rolf H. Funck

List of Authors

263

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