Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/326931 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
UNU-MERIT Working Papers No. 2025-002
Publisher: 
United Nations University (UNU), Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht
Abstract: 
This paper combines insights from the literatures on Global Value Chains (GVC), Economic Complexity and Evolutionary Economic Geography to assess the role of GVC participation and regional capabilities in fostering economic complexity in EU NUTS-2 regions. Our results suggest there is no such thing as a common path towards economic complexity across EU regions. Low-income regions manage to benefit from both regional capabilities and GVC participation. In contrast, high-income regions rely more on their existing local capabilities rather than on GVC participation.
Subjects: 
Economic complexity
evolutionary economic geography
global value chains
relatedness
economic upgrading
EU regions
JEL: 
B52
F23
O19
O33
R10
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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