, this paper presents a picture of the geography of foreign investments from and to the European regions and its change after …

The paper investigates specialization and agglomeration trends in EU-27 NUTS2 regions over 1991-2011 by means of two … Countries (CEECs) regions. As a legacy of central planning, in the early ‘Nineties these regions presented significantly above … performance in the service sector is largely due to capital regions catching up on previous underdevelopment in the sector …

that the nature of ongoing technological change and innovation dynamics has a strong local/regional component, public … volume and nature of ICT employment across European regions, identifying the determinants of EU regions’ attractiveness for …

consequences at the territorial level reinforcing the existing high inequalities among regions. Another crucial feature to be … to identify the "knowledge regions" in Europe and to examine their main territorial features. To this aim we first build …, for 287 regions belonging to 31 European countries, a comprehensive picture of the two variables - human capital and …

able to gain and maintain world leadership in innovation and technology while the latter continues to lag. Notwithstanding … the magnitude of this innovation gap and the political emphasis placed upon it on both sides of the Atlantic, very little … differences between the two continents in the quantity and quality of the major ‘inputs’ to innovation: R&D investments and human …

factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local 'social filter', taking also into … account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter’, good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …

one model R&D, spillovers, and innovation systems approaches. A multiple regression analysis is conducted for all regions …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three … and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and c) the examination of geographical diffusion of regional knowledge …

factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local 'social filter', taking also into … account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter', good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …