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Business topographies. A spatiotemporal analysis of 150 years of Indian business
Vaz, Eric; Noronha, Teresa de; Shafizadeh, H.; Kumar, S.; Nijkamp, PeterOne of the most growing entrepreneurial landscapes has been without a doubt in the last decade India. India, with a total population of almost 1.2 billion inhabitants, is a land of immense business opportunity within a highly competitive market. Before the eighties however, India was mainly a rural country, with a large contrast of the nexus between city and periphery. With the emergence of young generation of ...
Modelling innovation support systems for development
Vaz, Eric; Noronha, Teresa de; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; Nijkamp, PeterThe present article offers a concise theoretical conceptualization on the contribution of innovation to regional development. These concepts are closely related to geographical proximity, knowledge diffusion and filters, and clustering. Institutional innovation profiles and regional patterns of innovation are two mutually linked, novel conceptual elements in this article. Next to a theoretical framing, the pape...
URBAN TOURIST COMPLEXES AS MULTI-PRODUCT COMPANIES: MARKET SEGMENTATION AND PRO...
Romão, João; University of Algarve; Nijkamp, Peter; Free University, Faculty of Economics and Business AdministrationThe purpose of this study is to investigate and model the way touristic agents in Amsterdam design and organize their products in order to satisfy the needs of tourists with different geographic origins, characteristics, motivations and purposes. Applying the concept of a multi-product firm to a city, Amsterdam is presented as a multi-product touristic city, where different suppliers offer different services to...
Advances in Tourism Economics - New Developments
Matias, Álvaro; Nijkamp, Peter; Sarmento, Manuela;
Cities as self-organizing innovative complexes
Nijkamp, PeterCities are the seedbeds for creativeness, innovation and spatial competitiveness. They are characterized by product heterogeneity and behave according to the laws of monopolistic competition in economics (see Frenken et al. 2007). Modern cities try to offer the highest possible quality or image in terms of culture, arts, sports, innovativeness, entrepreneurship, financial markets, sustainability etc. Density an...
Multitasking in the rural world: technological change and sustainability
Noronha, Teresa de; Nijkamp, PeterThe rural world offers a heterogeneous picture caused by a rich past and varied responses to a diversity of socio-economic, demographic and political challenges. The present paper aims to trace new opportunities for rurality in the context of a metamorphosis of current production and consumption systems. Addressing issues like diversification, local competition or networking, rural firms are adapting to new con...
The multitask functioning of the rural world: technological change and sustaina...
Noronha, Teresa de; Nijkamp, PeterThe rural world offers a heterogeneous picture caused by a rich past and varied responses to a diversity of socio-economic, demographic and political challenges. The present paper aims to trace new opportunities for rurality in the context of a metamorphosis of current production and consumption systems. Addressing issues like diversification, local competition or networking, rural firms are adapting to new con...
The complex force field of traditional food systems: scoping the scene
Noronha, Teresa de; Nijkamp, PeterEurope has many market niches where traditional forms of production are still dominant. The geographic variety of Europe certainly stimulates the existence of diverse niches with a clear local colour and identity. Even in the age of mass production and consumption such pockets of often place-bound products have not disappeared. Rather, they are enjoying a comeback, as the public at large is increasingly looking...
Local knowledge and Innovation policy
Noronha, Teresa de; Nijkamp, Peter; Stought, R.Innovation policy has become a key issue in many countries. There is also growing awareness that one of the foundation stones of an effective innovation strategy is formed by a professional and advanced local knowledge infrastructure (see, eg, Jaffe et al, 1993; Saviotti and Nooteboom, 2000). This theme issue is devoted to the interface between local knowledge and innovation policy.
Firm behaviour and town size: a comparison between firms in small and medium-si...
Leeuwen, E. S.; Nijkamp, Peter; Noronha, Teresa deNowadays, small and medium-sized towns in rural areas often are attractive tourist places. People enjoy the relative quietness and peacefulness together with the historical values present. The old market, church, and city hall remember us about earlier times. Among many stories, these old buildings tell us something about the importance and role of towns many years ago. It where places where products where sold...
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