Benchmark Study 1
Benchmark Study 1
Benchmark Study 1
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IPP BENCHMARK REPORT<br />
expected that EU funding instruments will be focused on these challenges providing IPP regions new<br />
opportunities for finding EU support. The differences in high and low performance of IPP region provide<br />
also plenty of scope for interregional co-operation.<br />
Planned investment in the current Structural Funds Programmes for RTD, innovation and enterprise<br />
environment and human capital investment in the IPP regions<br />
Planned investments of Cohesion Policy in RTD, innovation,<br />
enterprise environment, 2007-2013<br />
Funding for RTD, innovation and enterprise amounts to some EUR 79 billion<br />
% of total funding<br />
NUTS CODE NUTS NAME Planned investments of Cohesion<br />
Policy in RTD, innovation,<br />
enterprise environment, 2007-2013<br />
EU-27 European Union 23,0<br />
DEE0 Sachsen-Anhalt 36,0<br />
ES52 Comunidad Valenciana 30,7<br />
LV00 Latvija 22,0<br />
HU32 Észak-Alföld 20,1<br />
Source: DG REGIO<br />
Planned investments of Cohesion Policy in human capital, 2007-2013<br />
Funding for human capital amounts to some EUR 68 billion<br />
% of total funding<br />
NUTS CODE NUTS NAME Planned investments of<br />
Cohesion Policy in human<br />
capital, 2007-2013<br />
EU-27 European Union 19,8<br />
DEE0 Sachsen-Anhalt 26,6<br />
ES52 Comunidad Valenciana 20,1<br />
LV00 Latvija 8,2<br />
HU32 Észak-Alföld 13,4<br />
Source: DG REGIO<br />
Key findings:<br />
The benchmark data referring the priorities of Structural Funds intervention in the IPP regions shows,<br />
that Valencia and Saxony-Anhalt strongly focus on research and innovation by devoting 30.7% or even<br />
36,0% of their Structural funds for investments in this field.<br />
This is also reflected by the high level of funding for human capital investment in both regions whereas<br />
Latvia and Eszak-Alföld put much focus on other areas such as infrastructure development to overcome<br />
the development gap. It also has to be taken into account that Saxony-Anhalt is neighbouring highly<br />
competitive Western German regions which requires more investment in improving competitiveness in<br />
the region.<br />
Due to this different development pattern it can be assumed that Saxony-Anhalt and Valencia are<br />
currently more focused on strengthening innovation, skills and research focus whereas Latvia and<br />
Eszak-Alföld largely focus their Structural Funds efforts to provide the essential infrastructure for<br />
regional development.<br />
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