Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312640 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] REGION [ISSN:] 2409-5370 [Volume:] 10 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 1-18
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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 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.
Subjects: 
productivity
smart specialisation
innovation
European structural and investment funds
macro-regions
JEL: 
O
O47
R11
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