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%T Productivity, Smart Specialisation, and Innovation: Empirical findings on EU macro-regions %A Kruse, Mirko %A Somcutean, Cristina %A Wedemeier, Jan %J Region: the journal of ERSA %N 1 %P 1-18 %V 10 %D 2023 %K smart specialisation; European structural and investment funds; macro-regions %@ 2409-5370 %U https://openjournals.wu-wien.ac.at/ojs/index.php/region/article/view/419 %X 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. %C AUT %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info