David Pickernell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1500789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Pickernell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Pickernell |
| SIGNATURE | PICKERNELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0912-095X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Entrepreneurial activity in the international trade in cultural goods
This study offers a novel country-level longitudinal investigation of conditions, including, income, urbanity, education, R&D, and entrepreneurial activity, driving international trade, for imports and exports. The configurational (clustering) approach places emphasis on country and year groupings, offering ‘targeted’ understanding on country level variations of international trade in cultural goods. The study explores context sensitive condition…
A panel fsQCA investigation on European regional innovation
Taking an evolutionary economic geography perspective, we build on literature on innovation modes, the aim of this study being to explain variations in SME innovation performance across European regions over time. Drawing on five waves of data from the EU Regional Innovation Scoreboard between 2011 and 2019, our sample includes 221 regions across 27 EU Member States, as well as Norway, UK, Serbia, and Switzerland. We apply nascent panel fuzzy-set…
Deep impact
Measuring impact from university research is increasingly seen as important, not least because of its use in resource allocation processes by governments. These measurement approaches, however, often take ‘wide and shallow’ economic effect-based views that are ex-post, linear and uni-directional. Consequently, research collaborations between universities and external stakeholders are often ignored, particularly when stakeholders are local or comm…
Innovation, social capital and regional policy
This article was published in Regional Studies, Regional Science on 20 December 2017 (online), available open access at https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2017.1405740
An appraisal of the European Cluster Observatory
This paper considers the work of the European Cluster Observatory (ECO) in light of current debates around the notion of clusters. Examining the definitions employed by the ECO, questions are posed about how effective policy can be when using highly restrictive means of analysis. Further, the work contends that, far from this being purely an analytical problem, there also exists a fundamental semantic issue regarding the term ‘economic cluster’
Unpacking a Wicked Problem
A case study approach is applied to review Local Government Authorities (LGA) regional engagement in the Australian context. We address the question ‘What are the key LGA enablers/impediments to regional engagement?’ by applying Leydesdorff's (2000) proposition that triple helix type network systems exhibit patterns of complex behaviour if the interaction factors that trigger enablers are reflexively declared. The three strands of the LGA triple …
Negotiating an Exception
What happens to a regulatory regime when the company that it has been designed to regulate radically changes form? We examine the case of Glas Cymru (GC), which was set up in 2001 and is unique within the England and Wales water industry in being entirely debt financed and operated on a not-for-profit basis. The article argues that the Office for Water Services (Ofwat) has been able to accommodate GC successfully as a unique case within an extant…
Begging Bowl Meets Baseball Bat? Lessons for the UK from the Australian Fiscal Model
The UK has taken a historic step towards regionalized government with its creation of a Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies. However this has raised important question marks about the existing funding system, the 'Barnett formula'. The purpose of this article is to examine the experience offered by a mature federal fiscal system, namely that of Australia. The Australian system, and in particular its fiscal system of dist…
Regional Policy Effectiveness and Local Governance Issues
This paper examines regional policy evaluation with special reference to Wales, in particular the importance of measuring regional policy and grant aid efficiency in the context of complex governance issues. Various measures of policy efficiency and data requirements are analysed. Conclusions, placed in the context of economic development needs in Wales, assess a future research agenda for measuring the effectiveness of regional policy
Changing the Name of the Game? RSA, Indigenous and Inward Investors and the National Assembly for Wales
The recent rejection of British Aerospace's (BAe) application for 25m in Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) for its Broughton facility in North Wales, and subsequent granting of 19·5m in other aid packages, has highlighted an important policy issue now facing development areas across the UK. In particular, how do governments balance the ability of foreign investors to lever increasingly scarce economic development resources from central coffers …
Reviving the Valleys of South Wales
This commentary presents case-study evidence on aspects of the incidence of low pay in the European region of Wales. The interesting finding is that it appears to be firms relocating to Wales from elsewhere in the UK who pay lower wages for the same work. This has important implications for the perpetuation of low pay in subregions of Wales, and we find the potential for a mismatch in the employment-creation objectives of the current Welsh Develo…
FDI in the UK Car Component Industry
This paper examines the 1985–93 influx of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the UK automotive component industry from European and Japanese companies. The study of 27 investors found that the market and growth potential of the Japanese car transplants Honda (Swindon), Nissan (Sunderland) and Toyota (Burnaston) was by far the most important reason for their location decision overall, regardless of whether the firm was European or Japanese owned…
An appraisal of the European Cluster Observatory
This paper considers the work of the European Cluster Observatory (ECO) in light of current debates around the notion of clusters. Examining the definitions employed by the ECO, questions are posed about how effective policy can be when using highly restrictive means of analysis. Further, the work contends that, far from this being purely an analytical problem, there also exists a fundamental semantic issue regarding the term ‘economic cluster’
Innovation, social capital and regional policy
This article was published in Regional Studies, Regional Science on 20 December 2017 (online), available open access at https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2017.1405740
Begging Bowl Meets Baseball Bat? Lessons for the UK from the Australian Fiscal Model
The UK has taken a historic step towards regionalized government with its creation of a Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies. However this has raised important question marks about the existing funding system, the 'Barnett formula'. The purpose of this article is to examine the experience offered by a mature federal fiscal system, namely that of Australia. The Australian system, and in particular its fiscal system of dist…
Changing the Name of the Game? RSA, Indigenous and Inward Investors and the National Assembly for Wales
The recent rejection of British Aerospace's (BAe) application for 25m in Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) for its Broughton facility in North Wales, and subsequent granting of 19·5m in other aid packages, has highlighted an important policy issue now facing development areas across the UK. In particular, how do governments balance the ability of foreign investors to lever increasingly scarce economic development resources from central coffers …
Reviving the Valleys of South Wales
This commentary presents case-study evidence on aspects of the incidence of low pay in the European region of Wales. The interesting finding is that it appears to be firms relocating to Wales from elsewhere in the UK who pay lower wages for the same work. This has important implications for the perpetuation of low pay in subregions of Wales, and we find the potential for a mismatch in the employment-creation objectives of the current Welsh Develo…
FDI in the UK Car Component Industry
This paper examines the 1985–93 influx of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the UK automotive component industry from European and Japanese companies. The study of 27 investors found that the market and growth potential of the Japanese car transplants Honda (Swindon), Nissan (Sunderland) and Toyota (Burnaston) was by far the most important reason for their location decision overall, regardless of whether the firm was European or Japanese owned…
Regional Policy Effectiveness and Local Governance Issues
This paper examines regional policy evaluation with special reference to Wales, in particular the importance of measuring regional policy and grant aid efficiency in the context of complex governance issues. Various measures of policy efficiency and data requirements are analysed. Conclusions, placed in the context of economic development needs in Wales, assess a future research agenda for measuring the effectiveness of regional policy
Changing the Name of the Game? RSA, Indigenous and Inward Investors and the National Assembly for Wales
The recent rejection of British Aerospace's (BAe) application for 25m in Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) for its Broughton facility in North Wales, and subsequent granting of 19·5m in other aid packages, has highlighted an important policy issue now facing development areas across the UK. In particular, how do governments balance the ability of foreign investors to lever increasingly scarce economic development resources from central coffers …
Begging Bowl Meets Baseball Bat? Lessons for the UK from the Australian Fiscal Model
The UK has taken a historic step towards regionalized government with its creation of a Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies. However this has raised important question marks about the existing funding system, the 'Barnett formula'. The purpose of this article is to examine the experience offered by a mature federal fiscal system, namely that of Australia. The Australian system, and in particular its fiscal system of dist…
Negotiating an Exception
What happens to a regulatory regime when the company that it has been designed to regulate radically changes form? We examine the case of Glas Cymru (GC), which was set up in 2001 and is unique within the England and Wales water industry in being entirely debt financed and operated on a not-for-profit basis. The article argues that the Office for Water Services (Ofwat) has been able to accommodate GC successfully as a unique case within an extant…
Unpacking a Wicked Problem
A case study approach is applied to review Local Government Authorities (LGA) regional engagement in the Australian context. We address the question ‘What are the key LGA enablers/impediments to regional engagement?’ by applying Leydesdorff's (2000) proposition that triple helix type network systems exhibit patterns of complex behaviour if the interaction factors that trigger enablers are reflexively declared. The three strands of the LGA triple …
An appraisal of the European Cluster Observatory
This paper considers the work of the European Cluster Observatory (ECO) in light of current debates around the notion of clusters. Examining the definitions employed by the ECO, questions are posed about how effective policy can be when using highly restrictive means of analysis. Further, the work contends that, far from this being purely an analytical problem, there also exists a fundamental semantic issue regarding the term ‘economic cluster’
Innovation, social capital and regional policy
This article was published in Regional Studies, Regional Science on 20 December 2017 (online), available open access at https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2017.1405740
Deep impact
Measuring impact from university research is increasingly seen as important, not least because of its use in resource allocation processes by governments. These measurement approaches, however, often take ‘wide and shallow’ economic effect-based views that are ex-post, linear and uni-directional. Consequently, research collaborations between universities and external stakeholders are often ignored, particularly when stakeholders are local or comm…
A panel fsQCA investigation on European regional innovation
Taking an evolutionary economic geography perspective, we build on literature on innovation modes, the aim of this study being to explain variations in SME innovation performance across European regions over time. Drawing on five waves of data from the EU Regional Innovation Scoreboard between 2011 and 2019, our sample includes 221 regions across 27 EU Member States, as well as Norway, UK, Serbia, and Switzerland. We apply nascent panel fuzzy-set…
Entrepreneurial activity in the international trade in cultural goods
This study offers a novel country-level longitudinal investigation of conditions, including, income, urbanity, education, R&D, and entrepreneurial activity, driving international trade, for imports and exports. The configurational (clustering) approach places emphasis on country and year groupings, offering ‘targeted’ understanding on country level variations of international trade in cultural goods. The study explores context sensitive condition…
Economics (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Regional science (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Politics (4 works)