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Volume 41, Issue 2

October 2021

Special Issue: Policy options for lagging regions—effects, new approaches and emerging challenges

Issue Editor:

Thomas Brenner

6 articles in this issue

Policy options for lagging regions—effects, new approaches and emerging challenges: introduction to the special issue
Thomas Brenner
Annekatrin Niebuhr
Introduction Open access 30 November 2021 Pages: 125 - 130
Solving the restructuring problems of (former) old industrial regions with smart specialization? Conceptual thoughts and evidence from the Ruhr
Robert Hassink
Matthias Kiese
Original Paper Open access 05 October 2021 Pages: 131 - 155
Simultaneous consideration of spatial heterogeneity and spatial autocorrelation in European innovation: a spatial econometric approach based on the MGWR-SAR estimation
Andrea Furková
Original Paper 02 November 2021 Pages: 157 - 184
Building a bridge over the valley of death? New pathways for innovation policy in structurally weak regions
Björn Alecke
Timo Mitze
Annekatrin Niebuhr
Original Paper 12 October 2021 Pages: 185 - 210
Recruitment of scarce competences to rural regions: Policy perspectives
Kristina Nyström
Original Paper Open access 15 September 2021 Pages: 211 - 227
Prerequisites and initial developments for economic specialization in lagging regions—A study of specialized villages in Iran
Masoumeh Ghorbani
Thomas Brenner
Original Paper Open access 11 November 2021 Pages: 229 - 268