Anabela M Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 4382226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anabela M Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anabela M |
| FAMILY NAME | Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | European Commission |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1079-0395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The twin transition in the European Union: Assessing regional patterns of EU-funded investments
The twin green and digital transition is at the heart of the European Union’s post-pandemic recovery and represents a key element of the new growth strategy. The present paper aims to offer a novel perspective on the twin transition by illustrating the geographical concentration of ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) projects associated with green, digital and twin funded-investments, with the last category encompassing projects that integr…
Mapping uncharted territory: Research gaps in EU cohesion policy from a policy-making perspective
EU cohesion policy, the world’s largest regional development policy, aims to reduce territorial disparities and promote competitiveness across Europe’s regions. The policy has been subject to intense political debate and scholarly interest. However, a disconnect persists between academic research and policy discussions around cohesion policy funds. Academic research has yet to investigate aspects that are increasingly important in terms of policy…
Exploring the drivers of irregular spending in the EU cohesion policy
The regularity and legality of EU spending, i.e., the conformity of the expenditures incurred with the applicable legislation, are important measures of its efficiency. They are also key pre-conditions for the effectiveness of EU funds. Using time series data and a fractional regression analysis model, the study provides evidence that the specific governance and structure of cohesion policy programmes can explain the intensity of irregular spendi…
Financial Absorption of Cohesion Policy Funds: How Do Programmes and Territorial Characteristics Influence the Pace of Spending
Using data from the execution of 2014–2020 cohesion policy, this article presents a novel indicator to measure how fast European territories were able to spend their allocated budget and then explores the drivers of such financial performance. This analysis aims to fill a gap in scientific literature as most existing studies tend to focus solely on the total absorption at the end of the period without looking at the average financial performance …
Regional participation to Research and Innovation programmes under Next Generation EU: The Portuguese case
The paper aims to investigate regional participation in a new Portuguese Research and Innovation (R&I) programme (so-called ‘Agendas for Industrialization’) funded by the European Next Generation EU (NGEU). Using a probit model with sample selection and a novel dataset, we find that the distribution of territorial participation to the NGEU-related programme is more similar to that observed for the European Commission’s R&I Horizon 2020 programme …
Regional R&I ventures to tackle climate change: A new geography of challenge-oriented innovation landscape
This paper analyses how EU regions have aligned their innovation and policy endeavours to tackle exposure to the effects of Climate Change at regional level. Scholars hailed the need to orienting efforts and resources to tackle societal challenges. However, we have little empirical evidence on the alignment of R&I ecosystems and policy endeavours towards tackling Climate Change. Using regression analysis, we assess the relationship between such d…
Does Smart Specialisation improve any innovation subsidy effect on regional productivity? The Portuguese case
Smart Specialisation is a place-based approach to innovation policy that underpins a significant amount of European Union funding. Following more than six years of implementation, this paper contributes to the evaluation of the Smart Specialisation approach based on the case of Portugal. This is done using the country’s main instrument to support corporate Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) that was launched in 2007 and adapted to accommo…
Midwifery Now: Narratives about Motivations for Career Choice
The objective of this study was to analyse nursing students’ motivation to choose the midwifery career. This is a cross-sectional study with a qualitatively driven mixed-methods approach. The settings are three higher education institutions located in Portugal. The study was conducted between September 2019 and November 2021, with the participation of 74 midwifery master’s students, through convenience sampling. The data were collected through th…
Determinants of financing constraints
Using a recursive bivariate probit model and survey data covering the period 2014–2018, the present paper aims to assess which factors in the financial market (supply side) have a higher impact on firms’ likelihood to be financially constrained. The results show that after controlling for potential endogenous bias due to unobservable firm characteristics, being an innovative firm increases the probability of being financially constrained between …
Tourism demand, low cost carriers and European institutions: The case of Brussels
Análise da Eficácia, Eficiência e Valor Acrescentado de Políticas Públicas Place-based - uma aplicação a territórios rurais
O lançamento do Programa LEADER, em 1991, imprimiu uma nova dinâmica à política de desenvolvimento rural da União Europeia. Este programa, concebido para fomentar o empreendedorismo, potenciar o crescimento económico e estimular a inovação nas zonas rurais, distinguiu-se dos modelos clássicos de política pública por assentar numa abordagem territorial, multissectorial e integrada. Este artigo tem como principal objetivo a análise do valor acresce…
Financial Absorption of Cohesion Policy Funds: How Do Programmes and Territorial Characteristics Influence the Pace of Spending
Using data from the execution of 2014–2020 cohesion policy, this article presents a novel indicator to measure how fast European territories were able to spend their allocated budget and then explores the drivers of such financial performance. This analysis aims to fill a gap in scientific literature as most existing studies tend to focus solely on the total absorption at the end of the period without looking at the average financial performance …
Regional participation to Research and Innovation programmes under Next Generation EU: The Portuguese case
The paper aims to investigate regional participation in a new Portuguese Research and Innovation (R&I) programme (so-called ‘Agendas for Industrialization’) funded by the European Next Generation EU (NGEU). Using a probit model with sample selection and a novel dataset, we find that the distribution of territorial participation to the NGEU-related programme is more similar to that observed for the European Commission’s R&I Horizon 2020 programme …
Tourism demand, low cost carriers and European institutions: The case of Brussels
Mapping uncharted territory: Research gaps in EU cohesion policy from a policy-making perspective
EU cohesion policy, the world’s largest regional development policy, aims to reduce territorial disparities and promote competitiveness across Europe’s regions. The policy has been subject to intense political debate and scholarly interest. However, a disconnect persists between academic research and policy discussions around cohesion policy funds. Academic research has yet to investigate aspects that are increasingly important in terms of policy…
Exploring the drivers of irregular spending in the EU cohesion policy
The regularity and legality of EU spending, i.e., the conformity of the expenditures incurred with the applicable legislation, are important measures of its efficiency. They are also key pre-conditions for the effectiveness of EU funds. Using time series data and a fractional regression analysis model, the study provides evidence that the specific governance and structure of cohesion policy programmes can explain the intensity of irregular spendi…
Regional R&I ventures to tackle climate change: A new geography of challenge-oriented innovation landscape
This paper analyses how EU regions have aligned their innovation and policy endeavours to tackle exposure to the effects of Climate Change at regional level. Scholars hailed the need to orienting efforts and resources to tackle societal challenges. However, we have little empirical evidence on the alignment of R&I ecosystems and policy endeavours towards tackling Climate Change. Using regression analysis, we assess the relationship between such d…
Análise da Eficácia, Eficiência e Valor Acrescentado de Políticas Públicas Place-based - uma aplicação a territórios rurais
O lançamento do Programa LEADER, em 1991, imprimiu uma nova dinâmica à política de desenvolvimento rural da União Europeia. Este programa, concebido para fomentar o empreendedorismo, potenciar o crescimento económico e estimular a inovação nas zonas rurais, distinguiu-se dos modelos clássicos de política pública por assentar numa abordagem territorial, multissectorial e integrada. Este artigo tem como principal objetivo a análise do valor acresce…
Análise da Eficácia, Eficiência e Valor Acrescentado de Políticas Públicas Place-based - uma aplicação a territórios rurais
O lançamento do Programa LEADER, em 1991, imprimiu uma nova dinâmica à política de desenvolvimento rural da União Europeia. Este programa, concebido para fomentar o empreendedorismo, potenciar o crescimento económico e estimular a inovação nas zonas rurais, distinguiu-se dos modelos clássicos de política pública por assentar numa abordagem territorial, multissectorial e integrada. Este artigo tem como principal objetivo a análise do valor acresce…
Tourism demand, low cost carriers and European institutions: The case of Brussels
Midwifery Now: Narratives about Motivations for Career Choice
The objective of this study was to analyse nursing students’ motivation to choose the midwifery career. This is a cross-sectional study with a qualitatively driven mixed-methods approach. The settings are three higher education institutions located in Portugal. The study was conducted between September 2019 and November 2021, with the participation of 74 midwifery master’s students, through convenience sampling. The data were collected through th…
Determinants of financing constraints
Using a recursive bivariate probit model and survey data covering the period 2014–2018, the present paper aims to assess which factors in the financial market (supply side) have a higher impact on firms’ likelihood to be financially constrained. The results show that after controlling for potential endogenous bias due to unobservable firm characteristics, being an innovative firm increases the probability of being financially constrained between …
Does Smart Specialisation improve any innovation subsidy effect on regional productivity? The Portuguese case
Smart Specialisation is a place-based approach to innovation policy that underpins a significant amount of European Union funding. Following more than six years of implementation, this paper contributes to the evaluation of the Smart Specialisation approach based on the case of Portugal. This is done using the country’s main instrument to support corporate Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) that was launched in 2007 and adapted to accommo…
Regional participation to Research and Innovation programmes under Next Generation EU: The Portuguese case
The paper aims to investigate regional participation in a new Portuguese Research and Innovation (R&I) programme (so-called ‘Agendas for Industrialization’) funded by the European Next Generation EU (NGEU). Using a probit model with sample selection and a novel dataset, we find that the distribution of territorial participation to the NGEU-related programme is more similar to that observed for the European Commission’s R&I Horizon 2020 programme …
Regional R&I ventures to tackle climate change: A new geography of challenge-oriented innovation landscape
This paper analyses how EU regions have aligned their innovation and policy endeavours to tackle exposure to the effects of Climate Change at regional level. Scholars hailed the need to orienting efforts and resources to tackle societal challenges. However, we have little empirical evidence on the alignment of R&I ecosystems and policy endeavours towards tackling Climate Change. Using regression analysis, we assess the relationship between such d…
The twin transition in the European Union: Assessing regional patterns of EU-funded investments
The twin green and digital transition is at the heart of the European Union’s post-pandemic recovery and represents a key element of the new growth strategy. The present paper aims to offer a novel perspective on the twin transition by illustrating the geographical concentration of ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) projects associated with green, digital and twin funded-investments, with the last category encompassing projects that integr…
Mapping uncharted territory: Research gaps in EU cohesion policy from a policy-making perspective
EU cohesion policy, the world’s largest regional development policy, aims to reduce territorial disparities and promote competitiveness across Europe’s regions. The policy has been subject to intense political debate and scholarly interest. However, a disconnect persists between academic research and policy discussions around cohesion policy funds. Academic research has yet to investigate aspects that are increasingly important in terms of policy…
Exploring the drivers of irregular spending in the EU cohesion policy
The regularity and legality of EU spending, i.e., the conformity of the expenditures incurred with the applicable legislation, are important measures of its efficiency. They are also key pre-conditions for the effectiveness of EU funds. Using time series data and a fractional regression analysis model, the study provides evidence that the specific governance and structure of cohesion policy programmes can explain the intensity of irregular spendi…
Financial Absorption of Cohesion Policy Funds: How Do Programmes and Territorial Characteristics Influence the Pace of Spending
Using data from the execution of 2014–2020 cohesion policy, this article presents a novel indicator to measure how fast European territories were able to spend their allocated budget and then explores the drivers of such financial performance. This analysis aims to fill a gap in scientific literature as most existing studies tend to focus solely on the total absorption at the end of the period without looking at the average financial performance …
Regional Development and Policy (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Regional science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cohesion (chemistry (3 works) · Innovation Policy and RD (3 works) · Polish socio-economic development (3 works)