{"title":"Policy path dependency in a less developed region: The evolution of regional innovation policy in Wales (UK)","authors":"Dylan Henderson","doi":"10.15304/RGE.28.2.6155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/RGE.28.2.6155","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the concept of path dependency in policies, and seeks to examine how different pathways emerge in policy and how these change over time. It does so with reference to a case study of regional innovation policy development in Wales (UK) over a period of more than thirty years. Building on recent developments in regional studies and economic geography the paper considers whether path dependency is an inevitable feature of the policy process at the regional level. Drawing on documentary analysis and interviews with policy makers, it finds that policy decisions taken early on in the path creation phase (to support technological innovation) endure despite attempts to broaden out the pathway to a more inclusive form of innovation policy in Wales. While path dependency, most evident in core technological and R&D policy instruments, hasn’t prevented path experimentation, the findings suggest that rigidity and renewal co-exist in policies and the policy process for regional innovation over time. The findings contribute towards the growing focus on the temporal dynamics of policy change at the regional level and the complexity of policy as it seeks to address the challenge of innovation in less developed regions.","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49249615","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}
M. D. C. Sánchez-Carreira, Pedro Varela-Vázquez, M. C. Peñate-Valentín
{"title":"La compra pública de innovación: análisis de la experiencia de Galicia en el ámbito sanitario","authors":"M. D. C. Sánchez-Carreira, Pedro Varela-Vázquez, M. C. Peñate-Valentín","doi":"10.15304/rge.28.2.6158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.28.2.6158","url":null,"abstract":"El sector público constituye un consumidor estratégico, que puede utilizar su poder de compra para conseguir distintos fines socioeconómicos. Así sucede con la compra pública de innovación (CPI), instrumento que trata de fomentar la innovación desde el lado de la demanda. El principal objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la experiencia de CPI de Galicia, centrándose en el ámbito de la salud. Esto se debe a la relevancia del sector público como demandante y prestador de servicios en el sector salud y a que Galicia constituye una referencia en la implementación de CPI en el ámbito sanitario. Un aspecto central de este trabajo consiste en identificar los factores impulsores de esta experiencia pionera. Los resultados sugieren que algunos elementos son cruciales: la disponibilidad de financiación pública, la participación de los diferentes tipos de agentes, la interacción público-privada, la identificación precisa de las necesidades y la adecuada planificación. Asimismo, la efectividad de las políticas de demanda está condicionada por otros elementos como las capacidades productivas e innovadoras del territorio, lo que sugiere la necesidad de la coordinación de las políticas de innovación desde la perspectiva de la demanda con las de oferta. El papel del sector público como promotor de la innovación parece más relevante en regiones menos innovadoras, como es el caso de Galicia. ","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44741098","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":"Sistemas regionales de innovación: pasado, presente y futuro","authors":"B. Asheim, Markus Grillitsch, Michaela Trippl","doi":"10.15304/rge.28.2.6190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.28.2.6190","url":null,"abstract":"Desde su aparición en la década de 1990, el enfoque de los sistemas regionales de innovación (SRI) ha atraído una considerable atención por parte de los geógrafos económicos, académicos y responsables de políticas de innovación. El enfoque SRI ocupa un lugar destacado en el discurso científico sobre la desigual geografía de la innovación y los factores que explican la generación de conocimiento y la capacidad de innovar de las regiones. El objetivo de este trabajo es reflexionar acerca de la aparición del enfoque SIR, su debate actual, así como los retos de futuro. Este documento se estructura con base en cuatro preguntas generales de investigación: ¿cuáles son los orígenes y fundamentos teóricos de este enfoque?, ¿cuál ha sido su contribución a los estudios de innovación y a la geografía económica?, ¿cuáles son sus implicaciones para la política de innovación?, y ¿cuáles son las líneas de investigación más recientes y los desafíos claves de la investigación en el futuro? Se argumenta que las contribuciones del enfoque de los SRI han sido sustanciales. Sin embargo, el enfoque ha sido aplicado a veces de una manera más bien estática, más como una heurística que como una teoría coherente. Los principales retos para la investigación actual y futura, por tanto, deben avanzar en la línea de construir un enfoque más robusto desde el punto vista téorico y también más centrado en la dinámica y transformación de los SRI. ","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44385658","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":"A REVISTA GALEGA DE ECONOMÍA E OUTRAS REVISTAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN ECONÓMICA PUBLICADAS EN GALICIA, 2001-2018","authors":"M. Guisán","doi":"10.15304/RGE.27.2.5666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/RGE.27.2.5666","url":null,"abstract":" Este informe presenta as etapas da Revista Galega de Economía (RGE), logo decumprir máis de 25 anos de existencia, o que a converte na revista galega de Economía demaior duración. Tamén incluímos información sobre outras revistas de investigacióneconómica publicadas en Galicia, sobre todo as enfocadas cara o desenvolvementoeconómico, as publicadas no período 2001-2018 e dispoñibles na Internet. A sección 1 faiunha referencia ás tres etapas da RGE: de 1992-1999, de 2000-2013 e de 2014-2018. Asegunda etapa supón un avance importante na internacionalización da revista,especialmente a través da inclusión na base RedAlyc dende o ano 2000, e Ideas.Repecdende o ano 2012, sen perder unha elevada adicación á economía galega. A terceira etapaavanza na internacionalización, tamén a través doutros eidos en lingua inglesa, e seguecunha intensa adicación á economía de Galicia e ao desenvolvemento rexional de Europa.","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49647574","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":"DISTRIBUCIÓN DO INGRESO RURAL EN COLOMBIA E LIÑA DE POBREZA: 2004-2014","authors":"Brayan Alexander BARON ORTEGON","doi":"10.15304/rge.27.2.5661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.27.2.5661","url":null,"abstract":"Neste traballo respóndese á seguinte pregunta Por que no período: 2004-2014,reduciuse a pobreza rural en Colombia, se a concentración do ingreso rural non baixou?Para respondela, faise unha análise das taxas de crecemento das series de crecemento doingreso rural, distribución do ingreso rural, pobreza rural, o coeficiente de Gini do ingresoe poboación rural. Logo de responder á anterior pregunta, faise unha descrición doimpacto da diminución da pobreza rural no período estudado, sobre algunhas dasvariables de calidade de vida da poboación rural, para concluír que estas foron febles.Analízase ademais a influencia do desenvolvemento económico sobre a diminución dapobreza.Abstract. In this paper, the following question is answered: Why in the study period2004-2014, Colombian rural poverty decreased, even if rural income shares did notchange? In order to do so, an analysis of growth rates of some economic series is done,such as: rural income growth, rural income shares, rural poverty, Gini coefficient ofincome and rural population. After, possible impacts of the decreasing rural poverty onsome quality of life variables of Colombian rural population are described, finallyconcluding them to be feeble. Besides, the influence of economic development on povertyreduction is analyzed.","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49535241","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":"TRANSICIÓN DEMOGRÁFICA E DEMANDA DE VIVENDA EN ESPAÑA. EXPLORANDO INTERACCIÓNS","authors":"Anastasia Hernández Alemán, Carmelo J. León","doi":"10.15304/rge.27.2.5655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.27.2.5655","url":null,"abstract":"O avellentamento demográfico e as novas estruturas familiares afectan significativamenteás preferencias relativas á escolla do tipo de vivenda, e á escolla da zona de residencia.Estes resultados teñen relevancia no deseño das políticas públicas en materia de vivenda aefectos de axustar a oferta de vivenda ás características da demanda coa finalidade defacer un uso máis eficiente dun recurso escaso como é o solo, prevendo unha maiordemanda asistencial nas cidades grandes non só por mor do avellentamento demográfico,senón tamén, pola maior concentración dos maiores en torno ás cidades grandes. The aging process and new family structures significantly affect the choice of housing typeand residence area. These results are relevant in the design of public policies, e.g. in orderto adjust the housing supply to the characteristics of the demand, so as to make a moreefficient use of scarce resources such as the ground and foreseeing a greater care demandin big cities, not only due to the aging of the population, but also because of the greaterconcentration of the elderly around big cities.","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48876523","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}
Soraya Ruiz-Peñalver, Nuno Marques da Costa, M. Queirós, José A. Camacho
{"title":"EVOLUCIÓN NA XERACIÓN DE RESIDUOS AO LONGO DAS CADEAS DE SUBMINISTROS NAS ECONOMÍAS IBÉRICAS: ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA DE ESPAÑA E PORTUGAL","authors":"Soraya Ruiz-Peñalver, Nuno Marques da Costa, M. Queirós, José A. Camacho","doi":"10.15304/RGE.27.2.5659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/RGE.27.2.5659","url":null,"abstract":"Nas últimas décadas a xeración de residuos converteuse nun dos principaisproblemas medioambientais debido ao impacto que exerce unha incorrecta xestión dosmesmos sobre o medio natural. Perante este contexto, foise propagando unha maiorpreocupación ambiental na que a redución do volume de residuos é a súa principal premisa.No caso da Unión Europea (UE), o obxectivo da lexislación en materia de xestión de residuoscentrouse na prevención e na reciclaxe para tender cara un crecemento económico moitomáis sostible. Porén, e malia os logros acadados, é necesario seguir avanzando nesta liña xaque moitos membros, especialmente, os do Sur de Europa, aínda se afastan dos obxectivospropostos para 2020. Por iso, o obxectivo deste traballo é aplicar unha metodoloxía Análisede Ciclo de vida Input-Output (EIO-LCA nas súas siglas en inglés) para analizar o volume etipoloxía de residuos xerados directa e indirectamente en cada elo da cadea de subministrosdas actividades económicas de España e Portugal.In recent decades waste generation has become one of the main environmentalproblems due to the impact that an incorrect management exerts on nature. Consequently, agreater environmental awareness has been spreading so that waste reduction has become itsmain premise. In the case of the European Union (EU), the aim of the waste legislation isbased on prevention and recycling towards a more sustainable economic growth. However,despite the achievements, it is necessary to continue advancing in this line since manyMembers, especially those from Southern Europe, are still far away from the 2020 objectives.Therefore, the aim of this paper is to apply an Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Analysis(EIO-LCA) to analyze the volume and type of waste generated directly and indirectly in eachlink of the supply chain of the economic activities in Spain and Portugal.","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48746923","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}
Luis Enrique Simbaña-Taipe, María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías, David Rodeiro-Pazos
{"title":"O NON CUMPRIMENTO DA LEI DE GIBRAT EN ECONOMÍAS EN DESENVOLVEMENTO: O CASO DE ECUADOR NO PERÍODO 2000-2013","authors":"Luis Enrique Simbaña-Taipe, María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías, David Rodeiro-Pazos","doi":"10.15304/RGE.27.2.5660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/RGE.27.2.5660","url":null,"abstract":"Ecuador foi un dos países latinoamericanos que experimentou cambiossignificativos no campo social e económico nas últimas décadas, converténdose nunha daseconomías máis importantes da rexión. Por iso, resulta relevante coñecer as relaciónsexistentes entre o tamaño e a taxa de crecemento das empresas deste país. Este traballorealiza a súa achega ao contrastar a lei de Gibrat cunha mostra de 25.179 empresas detodos os sectores económicos para o período 2000-2013. Aplicamos o métodoxeneralizado dos momentos en dous modelos de crecemento e utilízase como medida decrecemento as vendas e o emprego. As descubertas obtidas indican que as taxas decrecemento das empresas grandes son menores cás das pequenas. Ademais, a idade tenunha relación non linear, xa que namentres que nos seus primeiros anos de vida a relacióné negativa, a determinada idade cambia a positiva. Esta investigación achega evidenciaspara a orientación da política pública en países que se atopan en desenvolvemento. Abstract: Ecuador is of the Latin American countries experiencing significant changes inthe social and economic field in recent decades, becoming one of the most importanteconomies in the region. Therefore, it is relevant to know the existing relationshipsbetween the size and growth of companies in this country. This study accomplishes this bycontrasting Gibrat's law in a sample of 25,179 companies from all economic sectors for theperiod 2000-2013. We apply the generalized method of moments in two growth modelsand it is used as a measure of growth regarding both sales and employment. Findingsshow that the growth rates of large companies are lower than those of small companies. Inaddition, age has a non-linear relationship, while in the first years of life the relationship isnegative, at a certain age changes to positive. This research provides evidence for theorientation of public policies in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45020431","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}
Ignacio De la Peña Zarzuelo, Beatriz López Bermúdez, María Jesús Freire Seoane
{"title":"IMPACTO ECONÓMICO DO PORTO DE FERROL – SAN CIBRAO: HARMONIZACIÓN DE RESULTADOS AO ANO DE REFERENCIA 2016 E COMPARACIÓN COS PORTOS ESTATAIS","authors":"Ignacio De la Peña Zarzuelo, Beatriz López Bermúdez, María Jesús Freire Seoane","doi":"10.15304/rge.27.2.5656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.27.2.5656","url":null,"abstract":"As investigacións iniciadas nos anos 60 que tentan determinar o impactoeconómico dos portos nas economías da súa hinterland fóronse depurando, e asmetodoloxías foron converxendo ata permitir realizar comparacións entre uns portos eoutros. No sistema portuario español leváronse a cabo importantes estudos de impactoeconómico e, entre eles, destaca o do porto de Ferrol-San Cibrao, tanto polo carácterpioneiro como pola diversidade de enfoques, como polas metodoloxías que se utilizaronpara a súa determinación. Neste traballo, considéranse os estudos máis relevantes e, parao caso do porto de Ferrol-San Cibrao, harmonízanse os datos ao ano de referencia 2016 através dos coeficientes deflatores do PIB, e realízase unha análise comparativa conrespecto aos portos estatais de características semellantes.The research initiated in the 60s in an atempt to determine the economicimpact of ports in the economies of their hinterland have been refined, and themethodologies have been converging to allow comparisons between ports.In the Spanish port system, important economic impact studies have been carried out,including the port of Ferrol-San Cibrao, both for its pioneering nature and for the diversityof approaches and methodologies that have been used for its determination. In this paper,the most relevant studies are analyzed, the data are harmonized to the reference year2016 through the deflator coefficients of the GDP, and a comparison is made in relation tothe similar characteristic state ports.","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67377688","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":"AUTHENTICATION OF THE REGION AS THE OBJECT OF ECONOMIC SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINE","authors":"N. Ivanova","doi":"10.15304/RGE.27.2.5662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/RGE.27.2.5662","url":null,"abstract":"The urgency of the research involves the need to define the procedure for determinationof the region belonging in the system of the regional economic security; depending on thepresented identifier (cluster).The development of discriminative models of the regionauthentication is expedient to define its belonging to particular category of the regionaleconomic security. The objective of this article is to develop the mathematical models ofthe region authentication in relation to the status of their economic security using thediscriminant analysis. The region identification cluster is the indicator of grouping. Thearticle rationalizes the expediency of using the method of discriminant analysis whileresearching the regional economic security according to data of social and economicdevelopment of the region. As a result of clustering of regions by social and economicdevelopment, three statuses of the regional economic security were defined: “good”,“sufficient” and “satisfactory”. The classification functions of authentication of the regionas the object of anti-crisis management for ensuring the regional economic security weredeveloped for the specified classes by method of discriminant analysis. The evaluation ofaccuracy of the obtained functions indicates the expediency of their using. In addition, thearticle describes the authentication procedure of the region as the object of anti-crisismanagement for ensuring the regional economic security. The application ofmultidimensional statistical methods while researching the multi-criteria economicsystems, such as socio - economic development of the region, allows exploring a largenumber of indicators with different measurement units, to identify the homogeneity ofsystem objects. As a result of application of the discriminant analysis’ method, theclassification functions of authentication of the region as the object of anti-crisismanagement for ensuring the regional economic security were developed.","PeriodicalId":35769,"journal":{"name":"Revista Galega de Economia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47244413","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}