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This page contains information on the RENCOM thematic network. The full project title is: "Facilitating regional learning processes in a competitive environment: regional socio-economic and cultural developments in three accession countries and three member states." The project is funded by the European Commission in the context of the 5th Framework of its Targeted Socio Economic Research programme (call on 'Improving the Human Research Potential and the Socio-economic Knowledge Base').
The dissemination website of this project is www.regionalactors.net

General information on the RENCOM project:

Rencom reports

RENCOM - Workpackage 1
RENCOM - Workpackage 2
RENCOM - Workpackage 3
RENCOM - Workpackage 4

- Portugal Instituto Pedro Nunes & Marinha Grande
- Belgium DHL Superhub
- Belgium Fruit-auction Co-operatives
- Bulgaria Rahovetsgas & Vidima Ideal-Standard
- Germany Competence Network
- Germany Direct Sellers
- Hungary Bull's Blood
- Hungary Commercial Airport
- Poland Lower Silesian Science Festival & Lomza Credit Guarantee Fund
RENCOM - Workpackage 5 See: www.regionalactors.net

 

Artiles of general interest:

Callon, Michel (1986): "Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay"

Callon, Michel & Bruno Latour (1997): "Tu ne calculeras pas!" - ou comment symétriser le don et le capital

Callon, Michel (1998): An essay on framing and overflowing: economic externalities revisited by sociology

Gleirscher, Norbert & Markus Schermer (2003): The use of Actor Network Theory to analyze the impact of organic marketing initiatives on regional development.

Tondl, Gabriele & Goran Vuksic (2003): What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography.

Links

On Regional Actors:

www.iccr-international.org/regionet

On Action Network Theory:

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/act_net.htm
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/css/antres/antres.htm

 

RENCOM map of regions

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Meet the RENCOM partners

During the visits in January 2003 in the different countries of the network we made the following pictures:

The Bulgarian team (Irena Zareva,  Radka Ilieva, Krastyo Petkov)



The Hungarian team (Erdös Szabolcs, Károly Lóránt)



The Polish team (Tomasz Ochinowski, Alek Nowak)



The German team (Eckhard Dittrich, Jürgen Voigt)



The Portuguese team (Pedro Hespanha, Fernando Ruivo)



...........and Grigor Gradev (ETUC), Jos Janssens (Primula)




.........and last but not least the RENCOM secretary Etienne Vanden Balck
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last update: 22nd February 2005, responsible: Etienne Vanden Balck