This paper extends resilience literature by empirically exploring the relationship between regional innovation performance and resistance and recovery aspects of regional labour resilience among NUTS 2 regions in the EU-28 after great economic crisis in the last decade. The results of a multinomial logit regression model indicate differentiated effect of innovation performance with respect to different phases of resilience. Empirical findings clearly point out a very heterogeneous resilience path among EU regions offering evidence that a region-tailored innovation approach embodied in the smart specialization strategy is vital for achieving higher labour resilience during (resistance phase) and immediately after (recovery phase) an external shock.

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The Mediterranean region is one of the leading tourism regions in the world accounting for one third of global tourism receipts and half of global tourism arrivals. This paper aims at providing evidence that tourism can be considered as determinant of economic growth in the Mediterranean region. The results support the postulates of tourism led growth hypothesis, thus giving to the policymakers endorses for improving the tourism competitiveness conditions that will boost the economic growth.

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