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Policy Learning in Action: The Clusters3 Journey

Around three years ago the Clusters3 project was launched in Bilbao under the European Commission’s Interreg Europe programme. Back in 2016 smart specialisation strategies were starting to be implemented for the first time across European regions, and the project was … Continue reading

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Measuring territorial competitiveness: Why we should look behind the headlines

I was surprised to read in the newspaper earlier this week the headline that the Basque Country, where I live and work, has lost competitiveness since 1999. The surprise was not so much at whether or not this is true, … Continue reading

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