TY - JOUR
T1 - Central Eastern European cities within multi-level transnational company networks: cores, peripheries and diffusion of innovation
AU - Zdanowska, Natalia
PY - 2021/12/20
Y1 - 2021/12/20
N2 - After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Central Eastern European cities (CEEc) integrated the globalised networks characterised by hierarchical interactions between cities. This article aims at revisiting the core-periphery and spatial diffusion of innovations paradigms among CEEc within multi-level interurban transnational company networks regardless of CEEc size in 2013. This article contributes to confirm that in spite of presenting less complex economic functions than the large urban centres, medium-sized and small cities, still involved in relations from the communist past, are bottom-up drivers of future innovations. These cities should be targeted by regional policies to reach the polycentric model of urban systems promoted by the European Union.
AB - After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Central Eastern European cities (CEEc) integrated the globalised networks characterised by hierarchical interactions between cities. This article aims at revisiting the core-periphery and spatial diffusion of innovations paradigms among CEEc within multi-level interurban transnational company networks regardless of CEEc size in 2013. This article contributes to confirm that in spite of presenting less complex economic functions than the large urban centres, medium-sized and small cities, still involved in relations from the communist past, are bottom-up drivers of future innovations. These cities should be targeted by regional policies to reach the polycentric model of urban systems promoted by the European Union.
KW - Central and Eastern Europe
KW - Cities
KW - core-periphery
KW - diffusion of innovations
KW - interurban company networks
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U2 - 10.1177/23998083211070156
DO - 10.1177/23998083211070156
M3 - Article
SN - 0265-8135
VL - 48
SP - 2453
EP - 2465
JO - Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
JF - Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
IS - 8
ER -