-dependency in diversification choices. The findings deepen our understanding of regional development and innovation strategies, and …In this paper we explore the impact of place-based innovation policy in Europe. We focus on the effects of Smart … Specialisation strategies on the labour productivity of regional economies. We design an analytical framework that takes into account …

The paper aims to enrich the discussion on the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) and … Specialisation and regional innovation. The empirical approach of this paper is to apply a simply pooled OLS-regression with … productivity as an independent variable, various exogenous variables on Smart Specialisation, dummies on EU macro-regions, and time …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … particular, by focusing on the diversification of imports, we add a missing piece to already analysed export trends. We use …), they follow a similar path of evolution in the development process. Progressing relative diversification (despecialisation …