This book defines and promotes smart specialization, combining theory with a practical case study and its results. It offers policy recommendations and will appeal to policymakers, professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs involved in innovation.
Employment in the European Monetary Union
This book discusses employment in the European Monetary Union (EMU). Its institutions, based on outdated theoretical roots, lead to asymmetries and imbalances. Lacking typical policy instruments, there is a need to rediscover economic policy for the European institution.