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)

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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)