This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting …. Structural or general policies to enhance the functioning of EU labour markets are crucial to improving the situation of both … Union, although initiatives taken at the EU level can provide added value, particularly through stimulating the exchange of …

-patent networks, project based R&D networks within the EU Framework Programmes (FPs) and co-publication networks. Integration in … European R&D - one of the main pillars of the EU Science Technology and Innovation (STI) policy - refers to the harmonization … achieved by using 255 NUTS-2 regions of the 25 pre-2007 EU member-states, as well as Norway and Switzerland. For the …

emphasized supporting interactions and networks between organisations of the innovation system. The policy instrument of the EU … 241 NUTS-regions of the EU-25 member states. We aggregate individual FP cooperations to the regional level leading to a …

using 241 NUTS-2 regions covering the EU-25 member states. The dependent variable, knowledge production activity, is … participations of a region in R&D joint ventures funded by the European Commission under the heading of the EU Framework programs …