Regional Competitiveness and Smart Specialisation in Europe
This report may be used as a tool in the design of sound regional development strategies and provides essential information to policymakers and development practitioners. Regions differ from each other, economically – they compete over various products and geographical areas, exhibit different strengths and weaknesses, and provide different possibilities for growth and development. That which fosters growth in one region may hamper it in another.
This report presents an accessible methodology for identifying competitors and their particular circumstances in Europe, discusses regional competitiveness from a conceptual perspective and explores both past and future regional development policies in Europe. Underpinned with thorough analysis and theory, it presents a framework that uses actual networks of competing and economically valued relationships between regions to help develop smart specialisation strategies that are central in the place-based policy initiatives of a new European cohesion policy.
- Linksee chapter 'Analysing the Competitive Advantage of Cities in the Dutch Randstad ...' in the publication 'Metropolitan Regions'
- Linksee chapter 'Agglomeration and Knowledge in european Regional growth' in the publication 'Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy'
- Linksee the publication 'Regional Development And Proximity Relations'
- Linksee the article 'The Magnitude and Distance Decay of Trade in Goods and Services: New Evidence for European Countries'
- Linksee the European Journal of Innovation Management 'Smart specialisation in the tangled web of European inter-regional trade'
- Linksee the JRC Technical Report 'Smart specialisation in the tangled web of European inter - regional trade'
- Document | 21 December 2023 | PDF, 1021.74 KBdownload the publication 'Data Needs for Region al Modelling'
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- Publication title
- Regional Competitiveness and smart specialisation in Europe
- Publication date
- 2 December 2013
- Publication type
- Publication
- Publication language
- English
- Product number
- 665
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