convergence in Europe. The empirical part of the study bases on the regional GDP pc and innovation indicators on the EU-27 NUTS2 … additional 20% are country specific factors. Estimating convergence equations, we noticed that regional innovations tend to … increase inter-regional differences, at least during the short-run period. Thus, if regional income convergence is a policy …

growth performance and convergence. In the first part of the paper, the innovation performance of the regions is modelled … considered. In the second part of the paper the innovation performance is related to the process of convergence and divergence …. Earlier research has shown that although convergence is present at aggregated European Union level a much more diversified …

economic activities metropolitan regions can lead to excess growth, and contribute to a process of convergence between nations … location quotients and the change of LQ) are included. Within these groups we study the process of convergence by use of the … traditional measures of convergence. The findings are compared with traditional geographical convergence results, enabling an …