The aim of this study is to test the multidimensional construct Entrepreneurial University (EU), and therefore confirm whether EU factors make a positive contribution regional competitiveness. Data were collected from ten Portuguese Public Universities (PPUs) through self-administered questionnaire. First- second-order confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) performed multiple linear regression anal...

The assessment of the socio-economic disparities at regional level is one priority development topics. In particular, in formerly socialistic-planned countries, driven by transition period, accession to European Union and economic crisis, are present. main aim research has been identify most competitive cohesive Development Regions Romania computing, mapping analysing two secondary indices (Ter...

The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between regional firm performance and supply chain integration practices. In addition to literature survey, the primary data collection instrument used was a questionnaire which was administrated to a total sample of 200 industry experts, administrative officers, functional department heads and directors, the industry managing dire...

The importance of the tourism sector has been highlighted and featured in various studies indicating not only economic but also social environmental benefits. There is a need for measurement instrument regional destination competitiveness. This could gauge destination’s potential development competitiveness; be able to compare regions. To conduct an validation, both PLS-SEM confirmatory factor ...

Countries adopt different policies and strategies to boost regional growth competitiveness. R&D is one of the most important drivers national competitiveness because its ability generate knowledge convert that into useful information improve people’s lives maintain economic prosperity. Innovation emerges within innovation systems. Such systems encourage collaboration among institutional age...

Abstract The concept of Regional Competitiveness (RC), in the last years, had a considerable influence on development strategies and policies focused sub-national areas from an economic social perspective. In particular, RC attracted substantial attention policymakers due to possibility evaluating comparing different territories without any established political or conceptual framework. Convers...

Cross-country comparison is critical to understand the success of some regions and stagnation others in Latin America. This study measures regional competitiveness using a set comparable indicators for Chile, Colombia, Mexico 2008-2017 period through model that separates input from results (Aiginger Firgo, 2017). The measurement allows across countries. Results show high with higher yield progr...

The implementation of the European Cohesion Policy aiming at fostering regions competitiveness, economic growth and creation of new jobs is documented over the period 2014-2020 in the publicly available Open Data Portal for the European Structural and Investment funds. On the base of this source, this paper aims at describing the process of data mining and visualization for information producti...