Development Strategies in the Alpine-Adriatic Region...

This is the first collection of studies to examine development problems in regions around the Alps and Adriatic Sea. It focuses particularly on those systems, which derive from common Central European roots, but which have developed in different ways in the environment of their own national system of government, whether it be unitary or federal.

The main themes examined by each of the contributors are the major modern justifications of regional economies: interregional cooperation and innovative development. As well as outlining the differences in the way these regional systems have developed in time, the book also illustrates the common features derived from the Central European "model".

As a contribution to the study of regional economies of the Alps-Adria Working Community, the book will interest not only researchers, and Students of Geography, Economics, Government and Politics but also practitioners in the field of local and regional governments.

Contents

List of Tables / 9
List of Figures / 11

Preface
István Gyenesei / 13

Part One: Interregional cooperation in Central Europe

1 Interregional cooperation and internationalization of regional economies in the Alps-Adria area
Riccardo Cappellin / 17

2 Cooperation of Central European regions
Gyula Horváth / 47

Part Two: Regional and urban development strategies

3 The development of the Lombardy region
Giuliano Mussati / 83

4 Development strategy of the Veneto region
Stefano Soriani / 109

5 Actual problems of regional development in Slovenia
Vladimir Klemencic and Marjan Ravbar / 143

6 The basic aspects of regional development in Croatia
Zlatan Fröhlich / 165

7 Development strategy for a region in decline: The case of Baranya county
László Hrubi / 183

8 Transition to the new urban quality: The case of Trento
Rosa M. Arnoldi / 209

Part Three: Innovation-oriented policies and initiatives

9 Innovative behaviour and regional competitiveness. An international comparison
Michael Steiner / 233

10 The innovation-active environment in the Gyor-Moson-Sopron county Danubian counties
János Rechnitzer / 261

11 An innovative region - Baden Württemberg
Rolf H. Funck and Jan S. Kovalski / 281

12 Technological policy and regional development strategies
Klaus Zerbs / 299

13 Marketing as a new instrument for regional development
Jörg Maier and Wolfgahg Weber / 305

Part Four: Tourism as a new sector of development

14 Tourism strategies and transformation in Somogy county
Gabriella Somogyi Kraft / 323


List of contributors / 349