the area of innovation by helping to assess the sustainability for businesses of new business models in an area …

of Social Services of General Interest (SSGI). Polycentricity has been a favoured spatial pattern of EU policies since … elaborations of ESPON/SeGI project (Rauhut et al. 2013) that defines SSGI as an open, normative EU policy field, nevertheless … SSGI in EU and EFTA countries. Besides a polycentricity index provided by ESPON, further explanatory/ independent variables …

The paper evaluates the impact of the EU Eastern enlargement 2004 on the economic performance of border regions located … EU Eastern enlargement not taken place. Results show that, overall, the EU Eastern enlargement 2004 had no statistically … from the EU enlargement, for the Italian region, the effect is negative. This heterogeneity seems to be driven by …

of our 20 European states and the aggregates EA-18 and EU-28. The most accurate forecasts are on average produced by the …

and imports, major clients and suppliers, international average prices, EU and third countries markets shares); critical … communication. Particular attention is attributed to the Atlantic basin strategy - the largest of all the EU Integrated Maritime …

While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU …, the gap between rich and poor regions widened in most countries which accessed the EU since 2004. This trend, however …