[Forum SIS] Avviso di seminario Dott. Paola Annoni @UNIBO

[Carfagna Elisabetta]

*Statistics Seminar - Friday 20 April at 09:30*

University of Bologna

Department of Statistical Sciences, via Belle Arti, 41, 40137 Bologna

Seminars room


Paola Annoni

Chief Statistician, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy,
European Commission



“Measuring and Monitoring Regional Competitiveness in the European Union:

The Regional Competitiveness Index – RCI”



Abstract How competitive is your region? The EU Regional Competitiveness
Index (RCI) can tell you all. Launched in 2010 and published by the
European Commission every three years, the RCI allows regions to monitor
and assess their competitiveness level over time and in comparison with
other similar regions.

Regional competitiveness is defined as *the ability of a region to offer an
attractive and sustainable environment for firms and residents to live and
work*. The RCI, that builds on the Global Competitiveness Index by the
World Economic Forum, is the only measure providing a comparable European
perspective on regional competitiveness. It is an aggregate index including
more than 70 basic indicators split into 11 dimensions.

Results show a polycentric pattern with strong capital and metropolitan
areas as major drivers of competitiveness. Spillover effects can be seen in
most of north-western Europe, but this is much less obvious in the EU
regions to the east and south. High levels of within-country variation are
observed in many cases which are often caused by a clearly outperforming
capital region compared to the other regions in the country, but there are
some relevant exceptions.

The novelty of the latest edition is the interactive web tool, which allows
for a more detailed analysis and comparison of each region, either with its
peers in terms of GDP per capita or with the rest of the EU. Users may now
easily see how their region performs in terms of innovation, governance,
transport, digital infrastructure, health or human capital.

The RCI is meant to reinforce the Commission's effort to encourage
structural reforms and boost the innovation capacities of EU regions, also
via cohesion policy investments. Because each region is unique, the
Commission should provide tailor-made support to empower them and help them
capitalise on their strengths and assets.

The seminar will provide most of the statistical, and often hidden, details
employed for the construction of the index.

More information:

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/maps/regional_competitiveness/



Organized by
    Head of the Department

Prof. Elisabetta Carfagna
    Prof. Angela Montanari

Prof. Cinzia Viroli



Elisabetta Carfagna

Full Professor of Statistics

University of Bologna

Department of Statistical Sciences

Email: elisabetta.carfagna a unibo.it

Mobile +39 329 4131226

Skype account: elisabettacarfagna

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