This research aims to detect the factors that best explain the performance of regional innovation in the European Union (EU), in the year 2019, and compare the obtained results with the factors used to elucidate the performance of regional innovation in the EU during the year 2016. This...

Closing the prosperity gap between regions has always been a key political aspiration of the European Union - and cohesion policy is the primary means to achieve that goal. Europe is currently undergoing a digital and green transition that is drastically changing the way its economy works. How...

The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing interregional competition and affecting the interregional division of labor. From a theoretical standpoint, rising specialization and polarization of European regions may result from...

Island regions are generally dependent on transport services in order to retain cohesion with the mainland and for their socioeconomic development. Europe with its geography presents a number of island areas, with distinct characteristics, and transport needs. This paper focuses on the...

Smart specialization strategies are a new EU approach to cohesion policy, meant to deliver growth and development at EU national and regional level. Bearing in mind its focus on place-based development strategies, this paper intends to shed some light on its appropriateness to tackle uneven...

Small and medium-sized ports in the Baltic Sea Region find themselves in a dilemma to participate in the governance of innovation policies such as Smart Specialisation. The Smart Specialisation policy introduced by the European Commission supports regional economic and innovation development...

Die RIS3-Agenda der Europäischen Kommission fordert von allen mit der Allokation europäischer Mittel betrauten Gebietskörperschaften die Erstellung einer Innovationsstrategie, die einen fokussierten Einsatz der europäischen Struktur- und Investitionsfonds in einen strategischen Kontext...

Seit der Einführung des Partnerschaftsprinzips im Rahmen der Regionalpolitik der Europäischen Union 1988 wurde die Rolle der Städte im europäischen Mehrebenensystem schrittweise gestärkt. Heute sind die Städte Europas zentrale Akteure im Rahmen der Umsetzung der Regionalpolitik der EU, es...

The goal of this project was twofold. The first objective was to find out to what extent publicly available beneficiary data (from managing authorities and commercial databases) could be used for quantitative, econometric counterfactual analysis. This led to a second objective: in the countries...