{"title":"Residents' Coproduction Activities as the Basis of Urban Development: The Case of the Football World Cup in Volgograd","authors":"A. Sazhina","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3298741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3298741","url":null,"abstract":"Coproduction is a practice that encourages active interaction between customers and producers in creating products, services or events. In the urban management framework the above-mentioned concept is just starting to be put into practice and is characterized by the involvement of residents in different city activities' organization including mega events managed by local authorities. The new types of interaction between residents and authorities include participation of residents as volunteers in organization and carrying out of different city events and activities, mass collaboration or crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, recommendations to external stakeholders, couchsurfing, and slum tourism. The article examines the theoretical aspects of coproduction concept introduction in urban development, describes the types of interaction between residents and local authorities as well as the benefits of this interaction. The author has developed and empirically verified a conceptual model for willingness assessment of residents to participate in coproduction of mega events based on the example of the city of Volgograd which hosted one of the Football World Cup stages.","PeriodicalId":288354,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Regional Innovation Systems (Sub-Topic)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132398427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Проблемные Регионы: Сущность и Идентификационные Признаки (Problem Regions: Essence and Identification Signs)","authors":"V. Bratkova, Natalya Kiselyova","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2903949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2903949","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract: В статье предлагается подход к идентификации проблемных регионов с позиции интенсивности хозяйственной деятельности, финансовой самодостаточности, привлекательности региона как места проживания и инновационной активности. Доказывается, что наиболее проблемными являются этнические регионы России, дальнейшее развитие которых должно быть обеспечено за счет включения этноэкономической компоненты в структуру формиуемых региональных экономических кластеров. \u0000English Abstract: In article approach to identification of problem regions from a position of intensity of economic activity, financial self-sufficiency, appeal of the region as place of residence and innovative activity is offered. It is proved that the most problem are ethnic regions of Russia which further development has to be provided due to inclusion ethno-economic components in structure the formiuyemykh of regional economic clusters.","PeriodicalId":288354,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Regional Innovation Systems (Sub-Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129939503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mining-Related National Systems of Innovation in Southern Africa: National Trajectories and Regional Integration","authors":"Judith Fessehaie, Zavareh Rustomjee, Lauralyn Kaziboni","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2923056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2923056","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the linkages between the national systems of innovation of Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and their respective mineral extraction and mineral processing value chains, including input industries. Our analysis reveals four individual national systems of innovation, with different outcomes in terms of engineering skills development, technical vocational education and training, research and development, innovation capabilities, and competitiveness of the domestic engineering consultancy services. These national systems of innovation are tentatively interconnected as an embryonic regional system of innovation, including institutional relationships, cross-border investment flows, flows of mining-related goods and services, and intra-Southern African Development Community flows of students, lecturers, technicians, and engineers. Notwithstanding important dynamics related to skills development and competence building happening across borders, more collaborative and synergistic initiatives between government, industry, and teaching and research institutions are required to shape a more balanced and coherent regional systems of innovation.","PeriodicalId":288354,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Regional Innovation Systems (Sub-Topic)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126534549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regional Cooperation and Integration (RCI) and Trade-Driven Competitiveness - Is There a Relation to Inclusive Growth? - Overview of Economic Literature","authors":"H. Brunner, Kislaya Prasad","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2500702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2500702","url":null,"abstract":"This paper overviews literature which studies and discusses value chains, economic corridor and cluster development as part of a regional network structure along which goods, knowledge, and technology are exchanged by economic agents. The overview examines how regional geography, history, and structure determine the patterns of innovation, diversification, and specialization in a region. It synthesizes literature which examines how model functional forms, their scale and resolution of regional impact determine the significance of impact, which can be observed from models by policy makers. Finally, the paper identifies literature which relates Regional Cooperation and Integration (RCI) policy targets, with mechanisms (so-called drivers), and to a variety of policy instruments, which together and individually through their effect on the drivers affect these targets. The paper organizes these concepts -- policy instruments, drivers, targets -- with a process map. The process map describes then an impact assessment system for the systemic analysis of the relation of such policy instruments to desired economic outcomes. Furthermore, an agent-based simulation model, in conjunction with an interactive knowledge platform, can potentially fulfill all the requirements of such impact assessment system, as detailed in the paper. A particularly attractive feature of simulation models is that they can be used as observatories in which regional policy experiments can be conducted. The paper sums up the literature on why Regional Cooperation and Integration can be a significant factor in increasing regional economic competitiveness and inclusive growth.","PeriodicalId":288354,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Regional Innovation Systems (Sub-Topic)","volume":"434 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122135859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}