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The impact of economic specialization on regional economic development in the European Union : insights for formation of smart specialization strategy

Dzemydaitė, Giedrė - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-15

The smart specialization concept was implemented in the EU in 2014, stating that regions have to specify specialization areas for development of innovations. Economic specialization reveals a comparative advantage in that field. However, there are different arguments linking specialization to...

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Smart specialisation strategies and regional convergence : Spanish extremadura after a period of divergence

Madeira, Paulo Miguel; Vale, Mário; Mora-Aliseda, Julián - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-19

EU average, despite being eligible for EU funding as a convergence region by cohesion policy. In the 2014 …-2020 programming period, there was a positive dynamic at the beginning, but from 2017 onwards convergence stopped, which indicates that … intermediate development regions with some industrial base but does not seem appropriate as a convergence driver for poorer regions. …

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From clusters to smart specialization : tourism in institution-sensitive regional development policies

Benner, Maximilian - In: Economies : open access journal 5 (2017) 3, pp. 1-20

In the European Union and its neighborhood, regional development has increasingly come to focus on agglomerations during the last three decades. Notably, during the 1990s and early 2000s, clustering was the major policy focus in regional development. Currently, the concept of smart...

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