Zusammenfassung Die gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung von Regionen erlangt in der Gegenwart, insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund der europäischen Integration, eine wachsende Bedeutung. Damit geht die Forderung nach einer ständigen Verbesserung der Informationsbasis über die...

This paper presents an overview of co-patenting trends at the national and regional level in three technology fields (biotechnology, telecommunications and renewable energy), across regions in the OECD and emerging economies, from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. After a general introduction on...

This paper provides, for the first time, estimates of subjective well-being variables in 373 OECD subnational regions, allowing comparison of various measures of how people experience and evaluate their lives within and across all 34 OECD countries. Different weighting strategies as well as...