main hypotheses of agglomeration advantages and regional growth. The findings show that local knowledge - the Marshall …-Arrow-Romer type of external effects that place industrial concentration and regional specialization to the fore - applies in the … growth of regional productivity. At the same time, employment growth can be found in regions where the industrial …

The successful operation of the European Union s regional development - or cohesion - policy has strategic importance … improving development prospects and competitiveness in the regions concerned. Theories on regional development have … theoretical considerations, the author analyses the impacts of EU regional policy and evaluates the main elements of the proposed …

, technological and regional systems of innovation. It is argued that the four concepts, developing separately, may serve as a joint …

Regional growth dynamics significantly deviate from a normal process. Using industry-specific employment data for … important research gap at the meso-level of regions. Furthermore, we show that regional growth patterns emerge to a considerable …

, providing quarterly profiles paper offers a new instrument for short degree of synchronicity among regional business cycles …. Technically, we combine time series models with benchma quarterly indicators and to estimate quarterly regional GDPs ensuring … forecasts at the regional level (i.e., with a minimum compilation delay with respect to the national quarterly GDP) …

show a divergence behavior, in order to guarantee the sustainability and equality of regional growth. …