In the last fifteen years, income differences among European Member States have been strongly narrowing while the process has been matched with a widening of the inter-regional variance within single countries. Traditionally, regional economic disparities in Europe have been ascribed to...

For more than two decades cluster policies have emerged as a central focus for decision-makers trying to instigate territorial development. The benefits, especially in terms of collective learning, knowledge sharing and other types of agglomeration economies and spill-over effects, are well...

Der EU-Wirtschaftsraum ist heute von einer ""Metropolisierung"" der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungs- und Innovationspotenziale geprägt, d.h. der selektiven Konzentration von wissensintensiven Wirtschaftsaktivitäten in den Großstadtregionen und Metropolräumen Europas. Zugleich fungieren die...

Many European countries have faced the erosion of the competitive advantage in the international market with a mixed stratgy of productivity increase at home and labour cost reduction abroad, through the international fragmentation of production and subcontracting in low wage countries. Italy in...