The Role of Higher Education in the Socio-Economic Development of Peripheral Regions

Kohoutek, Jan; Pinheiro, Rómulo; Čábelková, Inna; Šmídová, Michaela

doi:10.1057/s41307-017-0068-2

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“…Considering the size of population, the communes in the sample were grouped into six categories, as follows: Category 1-up to 1500 inhabitants; Category 2-from 1501 to 3000 inhabitants; Category 3-from 3001 to 4500 inhabitants; Category 4-from 4501 to 6000 inhabitants; Category 5-from 6001 to 7500 inhabitants, and Category 6-more than 7500 inhabitants. The percentage of university graduates (proxy for educational stock in the community) was included as an independent variable based on the findings of various studies [71][72][73][74]. This indicator was calculated based on the 2011 Population Census Data, for each commune, as a share of the total population.…”

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Are Investments in Basic Infrastructure the Magic Wand to Boost the Local Economy of Rural Communities from Romania?

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This article investigates if public investments in rural basic infrastructure represent the best strategy for boosting the local economy of rural communities from Romania. The article focuses on one specific program implemented under the Cohesion policy in the framework of the National Plan for Rural Development, called Measure 322. Geographically, the research included a sample of rural communities from the North-Western Region of Romania. Moreover, the study also looks at other determinants of local economic development (LED), rather than infrastructure investments, with a focus on certain features characterizing Romanian rural communities such as population size, isolation from urban centers, connection with European and national roads networks, educational stock, etc. The research included three steps, namely the construction of the LED Index, a cvasi-experimental research, and a regression model. Our main findings seem to suggest that, while investments in infrastructure do help, the development gap between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries remains relatively the same. In terms of determinants of LED level, percentage of population with a university degree and connection to a European road are the most significant in the Romanian rural context.

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Are Investments in Basic Infrastructure the Magic Wand to Boost the Local Economy of Rural Communities from Romania?

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“…Under that approach the role of universities carrying out their R&D and educative functions is in providing the development of regional economies (Smith, Keeble, Lawson, Moore, & Wilkinson, 2001). Universities play 8 functions in this relationship (Kohoutek, Pinheiro, Čábelková, & Šmídová, 2017): knowledge creation, human capital creation, know-how transfer, creation of technological innovations, capital investment, regional leadership, impact on regional environment and knowledge infrastructure production. Recent foreign academic publications present empirical research and evidence that regional universities stimulate the development of less developed localities in Wales (Pugh, 2017), peripheral regions of South Italy (Harrison & Turok, 2017), Israeli rural areas (Frenkel & Leck, 2017…”

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The Analytical Instruments Of Researching Into The Geography Of European University Networks

Bolgova¹,

Kurnikova²,

Bolgov³

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…The percentage of university graduates was included as an independent variable based on the findings of [51][52][53][54][55]. This indicator was calculated based on the 2011 Population Census Data, for each commune, as a share of the total population.…”

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Determining Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas of Romania. Exploring the Role of Exogenous Factors

Pavel

Moldovan

2019

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Based on data collected for 398 communes from the North-West development region of Romania between 2007 and 2014, this article presents a local economic development (LED) index for rural communities and identifies the main factors which influence LED in these communities. Our results show that exogenous factors, such as location in the influence area of urban communities and the existence of a direct connection to the European Road Network, influence the level of LED. At the same time nor the aforementioned exogenous factors nor other exogenous factors, such as non-refundable investments programs in local core infrastructure (financed by the European Union and the Romanian Government) which were designed to accelerate/spur economic development, as well as direct connections to the National Roads Network, do not have any statistically significant influence on spurring/accelerating LED (at least in this short period of time).

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The Role of Higher Education in the Socio-Economic Development of Peripheral Regions

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Are Investments in Basic Infrastructure the Magic Wand to Boost the Local Economy of Rural Communities from Romania?

Are Investments in Basic Infrastructure the Magic Wand to Boost the Local Economy of Rural Communities from Romania?

The Analytical Instruments Of Researching Into The Geography Of European University Networks

Determining Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas of Romania. Exploring the Role of Exogenous Factors

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