the communication costs and the greater are the barriers to the exchange of ideas and innovation. …

, targets and measures to guide European policy for growth and employment. The European Union strategic objective is to become …

innovation and cohesion policies even the trade-off problem between efficiency and convergence may be reduced. …Convergence and territorially balanced economic growth require faster economic growth in weaker regions. It is …–periphery relationship can clearly be identified. Growth factors (e.g. human capital and R&D investment, innovation) should be enhanced …

in hand. We find some evidence of a trade-off between national growth and regional dispersion in the EU's Cohesion …Williamson (1965) argued that catching up countries experiencing strong national growth tend also to see a widening in … regional disparities, whereas in more developed economies strong national growth and falling regional disparities could go hand …