- Journal Details
- Format
- Journal
- eISSN
- 1869-4179
- First Published
- 30 Jan 1936
- Publication timeframe
- 6 times per year
- Languages
- German, English
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Wissenschaftliche Beiträge
- Open Access
Particular and general metropolitan specializations in Berlin: Culture and science, coordination and transaction
Page range: 287 - 299
Abstract
The paper explores how far thefour ’future fields’ of science, culture, health and transportation in Berlin – defined by local policy correspond with the actual regional specializations of the city, applying localization coefficients of employment in the respective professions and professional fields as a measure. In addition, Berlin’s specializations in general metropolitan functions are analyzed, using employment in knowledge-intensive services as an indicator. Furthermore, this category is contrasted to the differently defined category of transaction activities. With this approach, interferences of sectoral and functional specializations can be detected that are at the core of metropolitan value creation.
Keywords
- Regional specialization
- metropolitan functions
- occupational structure
- knowledge-intensive services
- transaction activities
Schlagwörter
- Regionale Spezialisierung
- Metropolenfunktionen
- Berufsstruktur
- wissensintensive Dienstleistungen
- Transaktionsaktivitäten
- Open Access
Regional development and regional policy in the Netherlands: are there peripheral regions?
Page range: 300 - 307
Abstract
In this paper, the position of ‘peripheral regions’in the Netherlands is discussed from a European as well as from a Dutch perspective. In the context of an enlarged European Union, and a shift in orientation of regional policy towards strengthening the competitive position of all regions, peripheral regions are required to explore new policy responses. In the Northern Netherlands, this has led to a stronger emphasis on cooperation, both among Dutch provinces as well as with international partners, in an attempt to strengthen the economic performance and political standing of the region in national and international arenas. The rationale or connectivity of international cooperation strategies such as the Northern Development Axis may perhaps be secondary in comparison to the enabling power of such strategy-building in fostering cooperation and governance structures at regional and inter-regional level.
Keywords
- Regional policy
- regional development
- EU
- Netherlands
- peripheral regions
- spatial positioning
- European integration
Schlagwörter
- Regionalpolitik
- Regionalentwicklung
- EU
- Niederlande
- periphere Regionen
- räumliche Positionierung
- europäische Integration
Article
- Open Access
Promotion of innovation and administration: the example of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Page range: 308 - 317
Abstract
The paper presents the thesis that the administration should be the target for innovation research. In the context of the promotion of innovations the administration deals with a threefold paradox. Innovations are non-intendable, the administration forms a non-innovative environment and the administration is dependent on majority decisions. Using the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as a case study the paper scrutinizes the internal handling of these obstacles of the administration. As a main empirical finding it shows up that presentation and delegation are the main methods the administration uses to encounter its own endogenous resistances in the context of the promotion of innovation.
Keywords
- Innovation
- administration
- promotion of innovation
- Bremen
- paradox
- creative industries
Schlagwörter
- Innovation
- Verwaltung
- Innovationsförderung
- Bremen
- Paradoxie
- Creative Industries
Berichte aus Forschung und Praxis
- Open Access
Formal and informal Instruments: How can they best complement each other?
Page range: 318 - 329
Abstract
The article deals with the increasingly applied informal instruments used for continuous and preparatory reasons in the formal process. The chronological parallelism of the project approval procedure “Ausbau Flughafen Frankfurt” as the formal part, and the regional dialogue board as the informal part, therefore demonstrate a novelty in the planning procedure.
From the perspective of those involved in the planning process, the analysis of the interaction of both procedures shows that the parallelism offers new chances – particularly in terms of communication and dialogue. Complex procedure contents and process steps of the formal procedure can be explained, discussed and completed during the informal approach.
Keywords
- Extension of Frankfurt Airport
- regional dialogue forum
- planning determination process
- large-scale projects
- infrastructure planning
- informal instruments
Schlagwörter
- Ausbau Flughafen Frankfurt Main
- Regionales Dialogforum
- Planfeststellungsverfahren
- Großprojekte
- Infrastrukturvorhaben
- informelle Instrumente