) competitiveness, innovation "smart growth" in the Lisbon and Euro 2020 strategy seems to have a build in effect toward economic … activities usually located in center or metropolitan areas. Based on an analysis of the dominant policy measures used in EU … in the overall economic trends in Europe in a regional context. In addition, in influence of innovation on the …

Innovation and entrepreneurship are key factors in current regional development initiatives, derived from the concepts … perspective. The impacts of innovation (measured by innovation scoreboard data) and entrepreneurship (GEM data etc.) on regional …

complex pattern, also before the current crisis. In most EU countries the trend toward conversion of economic performance …

obviously functions as link between EU regional policy and spatial development. In other terms, territorial cohesion should be … structure of the EU, partly as a result of socio-economic changes, partly as a consequence of the enlargement from 15 … also provides (1) a brief outline of the history and the political foundations of the emergence of the EU regional policy …

? Based on data from the regional innovation scoreboard (RIS) is this issue addressed relative to the income level, previous … growth performance and convergence. In the first part of the paper, the innovation performance of the regions is modelled … and weaknesses of the innovation structure in different regions. In addition the issues of returns to scale will be …