This report presents the findings of three case studies of lagging regions in the EU to deepen the findings of wiiw Research Reports 421 to 423. The three (NUTS 2) case study regions are the Italian Campania, the Portuguese Norte and the Romanian Nord-Est region. While each of these regions...

This report is concerned with analysing, for eight EU Member States with lagging regions, the main structural reforms carried out over the past five to ten years, essentially those which are relevant for the European Structural and Investment Funds. Furthermore it provides an overview of the...

Since the early days of European integration, one of the central goals for the European Union has been greater equality in income and productivity among member states and regions. This goal was realised for a long time since form the early 1950s onwards, differences in GDP per capita within...

This report is concerned with analysing, for eight EU Member States with lagging regions, the main structural reforms carried out over the past five to ten years, essentially those which are relevant for the European Structural and Investment Funds. Furthermore it provides an overview of the...

This report presents the findings of three case studies of lagging regions in the EU to deepen the findings of wiiw Research Reports 421 to 423. The three (NUTS 2) case study regions are the Italian Campania, the Portuguese Norte and the Romanian Nord-Est region. While each of these regions...

A huge range of economic literature is assessing the impact of agglomeration economies and the resulting knowledge externalities on industrial growth but neglects the intermediary link, namely knowledge creation capacity. This paper aims at filling the gap and studies the impact of urbanization...

This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of whether and to what extent the organisation of industrial activity influences innovative output in investigating the European regional landscape. After a review of the related literature we build a model based on firstly, different...

This paper aims at investigating interregional knowledge spillovers. After a review of the related literature, we construct a regional knowledge production function that allows for extra regional innovation-generating inputs. Accounting for regional specific "social capability," this knowledge...

This paper aims at investigating the innovation process of European regions in taking into account potential feedback relations between university and private business research and development (R&D). After a review of the related literature, we construct a simultaneous equation model based on a...

Ce working paper tente d’identifier, dans le cadre d’une démarche exploratoire et en articulation avec un cadre théorique original, les liens entre la trajectoire socio-professionnelle et le capital humain, défini sur la base des qualifications et de l’expérience professionnelle,...