Culture is nowadays seen by policy makers as a major asset in achieving policy objectives beyond economic growth. Governments at all levels (local, regional, national and European)...

The report summarises the results of a consultation of stakeholders in the Arctic region on investment priorities for EU support and ways of streamlining EU funding programmes. While conditions across the Arctic...

This year, the European Union celebrates the tenth anniversary since the adoption of the first ‘European Agenda for Culture in a Globalising World’ (2007). Since then, the cultural and the creative sectors have taken...

For decades, the focus of cultural, social and economic policies has been shifting onto cities. Cities with the highest concentration of creative employment have demonstrated the greatest resilience in the post-2008...

La seconda metà degli anni 2000 segna un importante momento di svolta per la cultura a livello europeo. Nel 2006, viene pubblicato...

The objective of this paper is to inform the community of researchers, policymakers and practitioners about the dynamics of setting up the Thematic Smart Specialisation Platform on Agri-food, and to provide information about its functioning...

Foreign direct investments (FDI) in research and development (R&D) are important catalysts of economic development. Through a diversity of direct and indirect policy measures, governments compete...

This paper provides empirical investigation of the effects of environmental innovations (EIs) on environmental performances, as proxied by the environmental productivity (EP) measure. We focus on sectoral environmental productivity...