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European leaders aim to turn the enlarged Union into "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world". But without major increases in infrastructure investments, dynamic growth - the missing ingredient of the European model - will not materialize. Given extraordinarily...
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This paper presents four case-studies of economies with developed regional policies; the European Union, Spain, Italy and Brazil. These cases have been chosen due to their relevance when studying regional problems in Colombia. Regional policy has performed relatively poorly in all cases since...
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policy in the EU. Enormous are especially disparities among the regions of so called old and new EU members as well as among …
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The experiences of 259 regions in 21 European countries with within country GDP per capita and labour productivity … development. Since regions are the only historical examples of restructuring in currency unions, we therefore also argue for a …
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This paper examines productive specialization in the regions of the European Union over the period 1977 to 1999 using … the information provided by various methodological instruments. The results obtained reveal a process of convergence in … regional productive structures during the twenty-three years considered. This has been due to the behavior of regions with high …
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Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … regions suggest that network relations are crucial sources of R&D spillovers, but with potentially different features. While … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions …
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Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia. Unlike many previous researchers who examine transition economies, we aggregate the …
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Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … regions suggest that network relations are crucial sources of R&D spillovers, but with potentially different features. While … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions …
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EU regions. Spatial correlation is evident, but this is due mostly to spatial error autocorrelation. Spatial interaction …
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