13 January 2014
Ex Boccherini - Piazza S. Ponziano 6 (Conference Room )
One of the main goals of the European Research Area (ERA) concept is to improve integration of the European research system. The main policy instrument in this context is the European Framework Programme (FP) supporting pre-competitive collaborative Research and Development (R&D). The objective of this study is to monitor progress towards ERA by identifying the evolution of separation effects influencing FP collaboration intensities between
255 European regions over the period 1999–2006. We employ spatial interaction models accounting for spatial autocorrelation by using spatial filtering methods. The results show that
geographical distance and country border effects gradually decrease, and point to the contribution of the FPs to the realization of ERA.
relatore:
Scherngell, Thomas
Units:
LIME