During this period marked by the effects of the current economic crisis, the structural funds play most important role in regional development. Each country of the Union, especially those in development they wish to reach the level of the developed world, so you must access the funds in order to...

A region’s competitiveness is the product of its creative, attractive and maintenance activities which may increase its influence, assuming that for a sustainable economic development there are needed both the existence of resources and the implementation of some policies conductive to...

To achieve the objectives of regional development, local collectivities must have financial resources. These resources come mainly from local taxes, from the revenues of their own activities, are thus, directly proportional to the volume of economic activity in the territory. Therefore, for the...

The development policy promoted by the European Union is a policy of social and economic cohesion, based mainly on active development measures. Political and financial support granted by the European Union aims at achieving a higher level of development capable of delivering economic and social...

Geographers, economists and regional scientists have long been concerned with uneven regional development and the ways by which the unequal regional distribution of economic activity across space influence the process of economic growth among regions. A dominating feature of economic activities...

The regional development policy is one of the most important policies and one of the most complex in the EU, as its status is derived from its goal of reducing the economic and social gaps existing between different regions of Europe and it influences different domains that are important for...

The present research underlies on the idea that recently in both governmental long term strategies and economic theories regions are considered as centers of economic growth and as hubs in the spillover of knowledge and that innovation is a critical component of long-term economic prosperity....