Irish Regions Office Website

June 28, 2009

Creative and Innovative Regions report

The 6th Progress Report on Economic and Social Cohesion - a key milestone in the wider debate on the future Cohesion Policy - was adopted by the Commission on 25 June and takes as its central theme how creativity and innovation boost can regional development.

The report finds that more developed EU regions tend to score well on most creativity and innovation indicators, such as high-technology, their attractiveness to ''core creative class'' professionals (e.g. engineers, writers, architects, scientists, professors and artists) who tend to generate more ideas and are more likely to set up new companies, products and services; R&D; and human capital intensity. Nonetheless, the EU's less developed regions are generally displaying impressive 'catch-up' in terms of productivity growth. A series of factsheets illustrate and analyse the key indicators. The report also includes a short summary of responses received to the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion and will feed into the Fifth Cohesion Report on Economic and Social Cohesion, due for publication in autumn 2010.

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Posted by iroronan at June 28, 2009 04:26 PM