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There is a rich debate in the innovation literature about to what extent innovation has become an international (or globalised) phenomenon, or, on the contrary, it maintains its local/regional character. As Koschatzky (2001) notes, given the fact that knowledge is commonly tied to personal...
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analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in Europe and replacing the simple life satisfaction measure with measures of …
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This study aims at unveiling regional development differences in Norway with respect to various natural resource-based activities that take place in the NUTS 3 regions. Norway's natural riches range from agricultural and forest resources to fisheries, mines, petroleum and gas. Considering the...
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Does European economic integration create more inequality between domestic regions, or is the opposite true? We show that a general answer to this question does not exist, and that the outcome depends on the liberalisation scenario. In order to examine the impact of European and international...
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Eastern Europe vs. Western Europe. Country-level converge and Regional divergence is mostly concentrated in Eastern Europe …, whereas stability and mild convergence is characteristic for Western Europe. This decomposition analysis shows that cohesion … policy managed to reduce disparities between countries mostly, and that Easter Europe accounts for most of these reductions …
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Many studies have focused on spatial patterns in economic growth. For the case of Europe, these studies have indicated … revealed. Second, by applying this methodology on geographical distance, new results on spatial growth patterns in Europe are …
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"Natural" disasters" have negative consequences for the affected areas, including significant economic impacts. Using a sample of European NUTS-3 regions over the period 2003-17, this paper examines the impact of disasters on regional economic growth and the influence of the quality of regional...
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strategy for the future programming period, from the perspective of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The study contains certain …
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evidence of convergence among regions over the study period. By contrast, we detect a regional cluster in the core of Europe …
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What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the major cause of differences in the speed by which following regions converge and catch-up with the most advanced ones. In addition,...
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