This paper describes the need to develop the innovative and competitive abilities of the CAE (Autonomous Community of the Basque Country) by increasing the efficiency of interactions among different economic agents. This case gives details of the set interactions in the different ways of...

The paper introduces the concepts regional complexity and engaged governance. Regional complexity is a situation where there is a conflict of interest between different regional actors. It is a situation where there is no clear answer of how this conflict can be solved. It is also a situation...

This article carries out a diagnostic of two particular experiences that affect the model of territorial governance of the Basque country in light of the social innovation paradigm to deduce a series of critical reflections about its development. We study the path of the Basque innovation agency...

The paper introduces the concepts regional complexity and engaged governance. Regional complexity is a situation where there is a conflict of interest between different regional actors. It is a situation where there is no clear answer of how this conflict can be solved. It is also a situation...

Science, technology and innovation (STI) is still on of the most important area through which a region or a country may enhance its competitiveness and hence its welfare. However in order to respond the challenge of global economy we must optimize the interrelations between institutional and...

In this paper it has been analysed whether and how the Agency for Territorial Cohesion, just recently established and intended to replace the Department for Development and Cohesion Policies, can fit in the complex system of multilevel governance envisaged as per the Community rules for the...

This paper discusses how electoral politics shapes the regional allocation of public investment expenditures per capita in Greece. Using regional public investment data for 10 political periods (1975-2009), combined with electoral data by constituency, a model is proposed which captures the...

The paper aims at contributing to the body of knowledge referred to Public Administrations co-operation. In particular, the research is focused on Local Public Administration (LPA), intensely influenced by the global economic crisis. The study regards to how LPAs could reach more efficiency and...

El texto ofrece una síntesis de los objetivos, el planteamiento y la instrumentación, en sus trazos básicos, de lo que se pretende que sea la «Política Regional» de la UE en el periodo 2014-2020. Las principales ideas se han extraído del 6.º Informe de Cohesión Económica y Social,...

Article about the problems of municipal governments related to fiscal consolidation in the Russian regions and the construction of the vertical of power during the first presidency of Vladimir Putin. The author analyzes the impact of the decline of the financial base of the city governments and...