Regions and cities face unceasing pressures to adapt in response to processes of
globalization, changes in industrial production, and new patterns of migration and trade. At …

One of the main aims of the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) is to promote the
development of rural areas. Although there is a rich abundance of academic literature on the …

Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating
downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include …

One the one hand, complex technologies offer substantial economic benefits, and on the
other, they are difficult to invent and to imitate, and they refuse a fast dissemination. This two …

Today, when smart development is increasingly mentioned in public policies, the way
digitalization, as a key component of it, will transform the world in which we are living is …

R odríguez-P ose A. Do institutions matter for regional development?, Regional Studies.
This paper discusses whether institutions matter for regional development and how to …

In rapidly changing regional economies, less innovative European regions (henceforth
referred to as lagging-behind regions) must actively work to reduce the gap between them …

This paper analyzes the impact of the European Union's Cohesion Policy on firm growth in
the programming period 2007–13 in seven European countries. Results show that Cohesion …

This paper analyzes the regional effects of EU Regional Policy during four programming
periods: 1989-1993, 1994-1999, 2000-2006, 2007-2013. In particular, the focus is on the …

This paper reflects on the implementation of the RIS3 policy agenda. Based on two surveys
and various phone interviews, it underlines that Europe's diverse pattern of institutional …