Re-Industrialization: Spatial and Territorial Aspects (the experience of Sverdlovskaya Oblast)

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10.2991/sicni-18.2019.146How to use a DOI?

Keywords

re-industrialization, spatial distribution, territory economic development, youth, small and medium-sized towns.

Abstract

This article focuses on spatial and territorial distribution of innovative production facilities and modern technologically advanced processes as one of the re-industrialization issues. Traditionally, large cities have created more favourable environment for re-industrialization due to their material and socio-cultural components. The results of the survey, conducted by the authors in Sverdlovskaya Oblast, show that small and medium-sized towns potentially possess social and cultural prerequisites for re-industrialization: young adults from these settlements demonstrate positive attitudes and potential comparable with those of the youth living in large cities. It was revealed that in small and medium-sized towns the youth value knowledge as an important resource for doing business, and highly self-assess such qualities as leadership and entrepreneurship. However, young adults evaluate conditions for doing business in small and medium-sized towns as less favourable. In the future the youth intend to get engaged in trading, service and tourism activities. Only young adults from Ekaterinburg consider manufacturing as a perspective field of their activities. The authors conclude that in terms of spatial and territorial distribution, small and medium-sized towns possess the required labour potential capacity to implement the concept of re-industrialization. It is essential to assist the youth in small and medium-sized towns in acquiring the in-demand skills as well as promote a comprehensive policy aimed at developing socio-cultural environment in the settlements. These measures will not only contribute to meeting the challenge of re-industrialization, but also will preserve small settlements, that are rapidly losing grounds for their economic development.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Elena Zaborova
AU  - Anna Tikhomirova
AU  - Tatiana Markova
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific conference on New Industrialization: Global, national, regional dimension (SICNI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 727
EP  - 730
SN  - 2352-5398
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