Reconciling the goals of simultaneously enhancing the competitiveness of regions in the EU with that of harmonious development and territorial cohesion has not been easy. Member states and the EU have spent considerable resources - mainly focused on enhancing R&D - with the aim of increasing...

What is the impact of special economic zones (SEZs) in emerging countries on the economy of surrounding areas? Despite the popularity of SEZs as a policy tool in virtually all developing countries around the world, there is little evidence to date which systematically analyses this question....

Despite a massive recent proliferation of special economic zones (SEZs), there is virtually no quantitative research on what drives their dynamism. The aim of this article is to address this gap and analyze the factors influencing SEZ performance - proxied by economic growth—in emerging...

Territorial development theory and practice have witnessed significant change in recent times. This change has increasingly put the spatial dimension at the center of development policies. Although agglomeration-focused policies derived from urbanization and agglomeration economics were once...