and policies for sustainable development .-- III. Inequality, employment and social policy .-- IV. Sectoral considerations …

Background: The paper examines the regional effects of a general innovation policy, i.e. a policy tool that does not … target specific industries or subnational regions. General policy tools are an important part of the portfolio of innovation …, irrespective of their size, sector and location. Findings: The economic geography and innovation study literature, as well as the …

concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses … concept of competitiveness that embeds beyond-GDP objectives (MS46). It then extends this work by deriving an initial set of … competitiveness, it specifically discusses the new concept of competitiveness proposed in MS46 and the notion of trade-offs among …

Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities … regional data, especially on employment and patents, we examine whether the involved industries have developed better in …