The Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union: Cohesion, Results-Orientation and Smart Specialisation

301 Pages·2015·1.905 MB·English

by  Philip McCann

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The Regional and Urban Policy of the
European Union
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TheRegionalandUrbanPolicyoftheEuropeanUnion
Cohesion,Results-OrientationandSmartSpecialisation
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The Regional and
Urban Policy of the
European Union
Cohesion, Results-Orientation and Smart
Specialisation
PhilipMcCann
UniversityofGroningenEndowedChairofEconomicGeography,
FacultyofSpatialSciences,UniversityofGroningen,
theNetherlands
NEWHORIZONSINREGIONALSCIENCE
Cheltenham,UK+Northampton,MA,USA
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Contents
Preface x
1. ThebackdroptoEUCohesionPolicydebates:Europe2020and
thepost-crisiseconomy 1
1.1 Introduction to the backdrop to EU Cohesion Policy
debates 1
1.2 The diversity and heterogeneity of the European Union 4
1.3 The Europe 2020 strategy and its regional and urban
dimensions 7
1.4 The impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis on the
EU economies 9
1.5 The structure and logic of the book 13
2. TheregionalandurbaneconomiesoftheEuropeanUnion 16
2.1 Introduction 16
2.2 The characteristics of the EU’s regional and urban
economic system 17
2.2.1 Productivity and economic dynamism 18
2.2.2 Cities and scale 21
2.2.3 Accessibility and connectivity 30
2.2.4 Labour markets, migration and demographics 33
2.2.5 Energy and environment 38
2.2.6 Institutions, governance and quality of life 42
2.3 Conclusions 44
3. ThelogicandworkingsofEUCohesionPolicy 46
3.1 Introduction 46
3.2 European regional development policies 1975–2013 46
3.2.1 Operating principles 51
3.2.2 Instruments and eligibility 56
3.3 The scale and economic impacts of EU Cohesion Policy 62
3.4 The governance and institutional challenges of the policy 68
3.5 Review and conclusions 70
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4. AreformedEUCohesionPolicy 74
4.1 Introduction 74
4.2 The rethinking of the policy 76
4.2.1 The critique of the policy 78
4.2.2 The place-based imperative 81
4.2.3 The multi-level governance imperative 83
4.2.4 The results-oriented imperative 86
4.2.5 The policy goals imperative 87
4.2.6 The conditionalities imperative 89
4.3 The impacts of the policy reform debate 90
4.4 The proposals for a reformed EU Cohesion Policy 92
4.5 Conclusions 108
Appendix 4A.1: The space-blind argument 112
Appendix 4A.2: The Sapir et al. report 119
Appendix 4A.3: Cohesion policy allocations in current prices 120
5. Innovation,regionsandthecaseforregionalinnovationpolicies 123
5.1 Introduction 123
5.2 Innovation and economic growth: analytical issues 127
5.3 Innovation and economic growth: empirical and
measurement issues 133
5.4 Innovation and economic geography 139
5.5 The case for innovation policy at the regional level:
market failures and systems failures 147
5.6 Conclusions 158
6. SmartspecialisationandEuropeanregions 160
6.1 Introduction 160
6.2 The origins of the smart specialisation concept: the
transatlantic productivity gap 162
6.3 The non-spatial smart specialisation concept 166
6.4 Translating the smart specialisation concept to a spatial
construct 174
6.5 Operationalising smart specialisation in EU Cohesion
Policy 177
6.5.1 Smart specialisation and different types of regions 178
6.5.2 Smart specialisation tools, techniques and
implementation challenges 188
6.6 Review and conclusions 197
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Contents ix
7. Conclusionsonthereformstotheregionalandurbanpolicyin
theEuropeanUnion 200
7.1 A review of the major themes of the EU Cohesion
Policy reforms 200
7.2 Potential weaknesses, threats and resistance to the EU
cohesion policy reforms 207
7.2.1 Weaknesses in the policy provisions and
regulations 207
7.2.2 Institutional resistance to the policy reform logic 209
7.3 Final thoughts 216
Bibliography 218
Index 279
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