Knowledge, Creativity and Regional Development

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje

doi:10.4337/9781781953549.00008

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“…Holsapple and Joshi (2000) argue that knowledge management involves implementing a configuration of knowledge activities that work on available knowledge sources to develop the required competency. Karlsson and Johansson (2006), in their study, scrutinized the role of knowledge in regional development. They explored different empirical studies on how knowledge enhances regional growth and development and identified clustering as a concept for localized knowledge for regional development.…”

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Knowledge management and the revamping of economic development opportunities in the Niger Delta

Alakwe,

Ibitoye

2023

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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This paper investigates the centrality of knowledge management as an enabler of economic development opportunities in the Niger Delta region. Given the developmental challenges facing the Niger Delta region, it is imperative that knowledge management should be harnessed as a tool for development. From the prism of PIND and leveraging a qualitative and descriptive approach, this study adopts focus group discussions and in‐depth interviews to affirm that knowledge management is an effective tool for fostering economic development. Results reveal that while information on development is not readily available to the citizens of the region, as well as a low level of awareness of developmental initiatives within local communities, the study contends that in order to stimulate economic development in the Niger Delta region, a robust knowledge management framework that takes cognisance of the innate needs of the people through citizen engagement must be instituted. Also to be considered is the literacy level, the medium of communication and the physical terrain of the region, which makes it challenging to extend developmental activities to all corners of the Niger Delta. The study, therefore, recommends the use of social media to improve information dissemination and the formation of knowledge clusters facilitated by ICT to expand the scope of operations in all local communities in the region.

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Knowledge management and the revamping of economic development opportunities in the Niger Delta

Alakwe,

Ibitoye

2023

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…In an attempt to measure regional development levels, some authors emphasise technological progress (defined as knowledge development, accumulation and diffusion) and the regions' ability to develop new technologies and/or to assimilate the existing ones (de Groot, Nijkamp & Acs, 2001;de Dominicis, Florax & de Groot, 2013), the geographical mobility of investors (Miguelez et al, 2010), knowledge transfer mechanisms and knowledge transfer agents (Simonen & McCann, 2010), universities and commercialisation of university research (Bergman, 2010), migrations and their impact on labour markets (Rodriguez-Pose & Tselios, 2010). Others point out human capital, knowledge and creativity (Nijkampet al, 2010) or knowledge infrastructure, human capital, talent, knowledge generation, protection and accumulation (Karlsson & Johansson, 2012), leading to the overarching concept of territorial capital, as defined by Camagni & Capello (2013).…”

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Performance of nonbanking organisations granting guarantees within cohesion policy

Waniak-Michalak¹,

Michalak²,

Turała³

2021

IIRR-JORR

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The debate on cohesion policy has recently intensified due to the increasing tensions within the EU and requires constant inputs with regards to various instruments which are applied. In Poland, a unique mechanism for guarantee distribution was adopted – the guarantees are mainly distributed through NGOs (nonbanking organisations granting guarantees – NOGG). Thus, the article aims to investigate the relationship between the level of regional development, the experience of nonbanking organisations granting guarantees and their performance which leads to observations and recommendations with regards to the functioning and assessment of guarantees as cohesion policy instruments. We have used panel regression for 156 observations covering 26 NOGG in Poland. The results confirm that there exist positive associations between the level of regional development, NOGG size (measured with guarantee capital) and experience and some financial performance measures. We posit, that a prerequisite for the high performance of these organisations is to ensure that they have an adequate level of guarantee capital and experience. We call for future EU-wide comparative research allowing deeper understanding of various guarantee distribution mechanisms performance.

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“…This is certainly a positive development, but it can also present challenges. Thus, there are examples of municipalities and urban communities with empty housing neither available for sale nor rent to those who might wish to seek work in the area concerned (Karlsson, 2015).…”

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Children Families, Housing Prices and Small Urban Communities: Can High Housing Prices Affect the Number of Children in Certain Localities or Even Displace Families?

Karlsson,

Heiðarsson

2024

CUS

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The number of children in the Western world has been dropping dramatically so that children are becoming relatively fewer than their elders. Iceland has been sharing the same trend. Several regions in Iceland have been experiencing more rapid reduction than others in the number of children for the past two decades or so. Does fast growing tourism play any role in this matter? According to Lino (2001), housing cost is one of the largest items in the marginal costs of raising children. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that fast growing tourism leading to increased housing prices or any other factors influencing local housing prices could easily affect the residence of children families in Iceland. The paper will address this problem by creating a general model for the population development of children families, followed by a statistical estimation on a panel data sample against housing prices, covering all municipalities in Iceland during the period of 1990-2006 and another sample for all urban communities in the period 1991-2019. The result suggests that the number of children can decrease following an increase in local housing prices. Moreover, it is not likely to affect the number of inhabitants of the age of 50 -66 years old but, surprisingly, likely to affect retired inhabitants similarly as children families.

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Knowledge, Creativity and Regional Development

Cited by 4 publications

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Knowledge management and the revamping of economic development opportunities in the Niger Delta

Knowledge management and the revamping of economic development opportunities in the Niger Delta

Performance of nonbanking organisations granting guarantees within cohesion policy

Children Families, Housing Prices and Small Urban Communities: Can High Housing Prices Affect the Number of Children in Certain Localities or Even Displace Families?

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