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Productivity, Smart Specialisation, and Innovation: Empirical findings on EU macro-regions
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Abstract The paper aims to enrich the discussion on the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) and ongoing development of macro-regions in the EU. EU macro-regions are defined as geographical related places that are considered to be socially, economically, and historically linked ... view more
The paper aims to enrich the discussion on the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) and ongoing development of macro-regions in the EU. EU macro-regions are defined as geographical related places that are considered to be socially, economically, and historically linked and, until now, make a blind spot in the discussion on Smart Specialisation and regional innovation. The empirical approach of this paper is to apply a simply pooled OLS-regression with productivity as an independent variable, various exogenous variables on Smart Specialisation, dummies on EU macro-regions, and time-fixed effects within NUTS2 regions between 2014 and 2018. From this, it can be concluded that Smart Specialisation has a significant dependency on productivity. Moreover, it was assumed that regions of a macro-region benefit from each other by co-location. The result is not perfect. This raises questions for the development of EU macro-regions.... view less
Keywords
EU; regional development; innovation; productivity; European Structural Funds; economic development (on national level); specialization; regional policy
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
European Politics
Free Keywords
smart specialisation; European structural and investment funds; macro-regions
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 1-18
Journal
Region: the journal of ERSA, 10 (2023) 1
ISSN
2409-5370
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed