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Este trabajo se propone analizar la evolución de la base regional de conocimiento con el fin de estimar el progreso de las regiones asistidas financieramente por los fondos estructurales. Con ese propósito, se ha utilizado un nuevo índice. Los resultados obtenidos tienen importantes implicaciones no solo desde el punto de vista académico, sino fundamentalmente desde la perspectiva de la política económica en relación a las medidas para estimular la innovación en la Unión Europea. ; This paper is aimed at analyzing the evolution of the regional knowledge base to estimate the progress made by those regions financially assisted by the European structural funds. To that aim, we rely on a new index. We contend that our results may yield relevant implications not only for academics, but especially for policy-makers deciding about the regional innovation policy in the European Union.

Degressive proportionality constitutes the main conceptual criterion to determine the composition of the European Parliament (EP). In reality, however, this concept entails serious practical problems as exemplified by the current distribution of seats in the EP. This article takes up the call and presents a new method for a better balanced seat allocation in the EP after the 2014 elections. Comparing with recent methods in the field, our results reveal that the method proposed yields a more balanced and juster parliamentary seat distribution among all European member states by joining the strengths of the existing methods and avoiding their weaknesses. In light of upcoming rounds of enlargement and possible amendments to the EP's internal rules of procedure and existing EU Treaties, we contend that our results are not only of interest to the academic world.