The EU's cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and … degrees of innovation promotion by the EU from one region to another. Since regional-policy strategies should have been …-financing policy of innovation projects changed for the 2007-2013 program period compared with the 2000-2006 period. According to our …

Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra …-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with … structural funds, modelled on the EU policy. In a numerical example calibrated to Portugal, we find that, to diminish the initial …