Introduction / Catherine Casey [and others] -- The social roots of the democratic crisis of the EU and the role of trade unions / Francesco Garibaldo -- Euro-democratisation and its alternatives : an analytical framework for organised labour / Roland Erne -- Path dependency and research on...

Regional disparities and spatial clustering are ubiquitous in today's world. This study contributes with empirical findings on the distribution of European research and patenting activity since the 1980s at the regional level. Besides a general theoretical part, it offers a quantitative...