The best European practices of converting the border position into a competitive advantage and territorial capital of a region
https://doi.org/10.46554/1993-0453-2023-9-227-50-63
Abstract
Regional competitiveness is determined not only by the physical and intangible assets of a territory, but also by the regional ability to convert them into economic growth and development. Border cooperation is an important mechanism for converting territorial capital into competitive advantages for border regions. In this regard, the article is aimed at studying specific cases of the EU border regions, assessing the impact of border cooperation on the increase of regional competitiveness and individual characteristics of territorial capital, connected with innovative development of border regions. The research is carried on the example of 10 NUTS-2 regions, included in the list of 50 most active regions by the number of implemented projects of cross-border cooperation in the programming period 2014–2020. It is shown that the specificity of the use of the potential of the border situation by EU regions is largely determined by the degree of interest of the neighbouring countries in the implementation of cross-border cooperation projects with equal importance of the joint border area for national economy as a whole. The concept of the «bottom-up» policy, on which the idea of cross-border cooperation in the EU is based, allows to intensify cooperation between local communities, create new values at the regional level: hard (new companies, jobs, new goods and services, infrastructure) and soft ones (knowledge, skills and new skills of the local community) capable of ensuring the economic and social development of border regions.
About the Authors
M. V. Kurnikova
Samara State University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Marina V. Kurnikova – Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Regional Economics and Management
Samara, Russia
M. S. Guseva
Samara State University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maria S. Guseva – Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovative Development
Samara, Russia
B. I. Toth
University of Sopron
Hungary
Hungary
Balazs Istvan Toth – Ph.D. habil., Associate Professor, Director of Research Centre
Sopron, Hungary
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Kurnikova M.V., Guseva M.S., Toth B.I. The best European practices of converting the border position into a competitive advantage and territorial capital of a region. Vestnik of Samara State University of Economics. 2023;(9):50-63. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.46554/1993-0453-2023-9-227-50-63
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