growth performance and convergence. In the first part of the paper, the innovation performance of the regions is modelled … considered. In the second part of the paper the innovation performance is related to the process of convergence and divergence …. Earlier research has shown that although convergence is present at aggregated European Union level a much more diversified …

structural and R&D policy the aim of the current paper is to assess, to what extent they have supported regional convergence, not … measure the impacts on regional convergence in a European (country wise) and urban-rural perspective. The first part of the … developments and perspectives until 2020. The second part considers the impact on the process of convergence of the current decline …