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Alexander Pelyasov
• Doctor in Economic Geography (1996)
• Professor in Political Economy (1998)
• Director of the Center for Northern and Arctic economies under Council for the Study of Productive Forces - SOPS (2005)
• Chairman of the Russian section of the European Regional Science Association (2002)
Three year partner project with Institute of Social and Economic
Research, UAA, Alaska (1995-1997)
• Russian co-director (American – Vic Fischer)
• First year – Northern economies• Second year – federalisn in the North• Third year – Native issues in the North• Project sponsored by Eurasia Foundation,
USAID
AHDR – four models of the Arctic economy: population, employment, GRP, per capita GRP
Creativity index for the Northern and Southern Europe: North is more succesful in innovative activity (methodology by R.Florida,
2004)
Sweden
Finland
Switzerland
Denmark
Iceland
Netherlands
Norway
Germany
Belgium
Great Britain
France
Austria
Ireland
Czechia
Greece
Spain
Estonia
Russia
Italy
Ukraine
Slovakia
Hungary
Croatia
Bulgaria
Latvia
Poland
Portugal
Georgia
Turkey
Romania
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One more year of intellectual ascent of European regional science:
review of the ERSA 2006 Volos Congress reports
Alexander Pelyasov
Comparison of topical structure of Volos and Amsterdam Congress papers
Volos: topic Volos: Number of papers
Amsterdam: topic Amsterdam: Number of papers
Total reviewed 291 (63%) 250 (51,4%)
1. Cities, urban issues 44 (15,1%) ↑ 1. Cities, urban issues 29 (11,6%)
2. Regional innovation system
26 (8,9%) ↓ 2. Regional innovation system 25 (10%)
3. Regional labor markets 20 (6,9%) ≈ 5. Regional labor markets 16 (6,4%)
4. Regional growth 18 (6,2%) ↓ 4. Regional growth 18 (7,2 %)
5. Regional policy, planning, governance
16 (5,5 %) ↑ 11. Regional policy, planning, governance
11 (4,4%)
6. Rural issues 16 (5,5 %) ↑ 17. Rural households, firms, policy 5 (2% )
7. Migration 14 (4,8 %) ↑ 19. Regional dimension of migration 4 (1,6%)
8. EU regional policies, enlargement, convergence
13 (4,5%) ↓ 8. EU regional policies, enlargement, convergence
15 (6 % )
9. Firms location, organization and competitiveness
12 (4,1 % ) ≈ 10. Firms location, organization and competitiveness
12 (4,8 %)
10. Island economy 12 (4,1 %) ↑ 18. Island economy 5 (2 %)
Books
• Northern economy and the radical reform (1996)• Russian North and federalism (1998)• Native and the state: from paternalism to
partnership (1999)• Population of the Kolyma-Magadan Region
(1990)• And the last will be the first: northern periphery
on the route for knowledge economy (2009)