. Furthermore, some argue that concentration of ports might increase regional inequalities in Europe. For instance, the European … the robustness of the current distribution of port activities in Europe we investigate what the effect would be of changes … that major changes in the general port layout of Europe are not to be expected. …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … to identify the "knowledge regions" in Europe and to examine their main territorial features. To this aim we first build …