consequences at the territorial level reinforcing the existing high inequalities among regions. Another crucial feature to be … to identify the "knowledge regions" in Europe and to examine their main territorial features. To this aim we first build …, for 287 regions belonging to 31 European countries, a comprehensive picture of the two variables - human capital and …

perspective, that is, analyse regions in a specific country. On the contrary, comparisons of regional features have been carried …-intensive services (KIS) in the European regions. For so doing we employ the data provided by the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS …) 2009. This database provides information on the innovation performance across 194 regions of the European Union and Norway …

, we also use a very small geographical scale of analysis -- Italian provinces corresponding to NUTS-3 regions --, which …

regions of EU27. Our main results indicate that the highly educated creative group is the most relevant one in explaining …

R&D investments are seen has having an enormous potential impact on the competitive position of regions and perhaps on … regional income distribution among the NUTs 3 regions of Portugal to conclude if these variables are related or not. We intend … related with R&D investments. After a brief introduction we evaluate the inequalities among regions using information about …

some European Regions, d) the current situation in Greek Higher Education, focusing on the New Educational Law and …

employees), that the age profile for R&D intensity behaves very differently in the two regions and that young companies in the … regions. …