Financial Absorption of Cohesion Policy Funds: How Do Programmes and Territorial Characteristics Influence the Pace of Spending?”. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13640

Measuring achievements: Can cohesion policy programmes effectively monitor their performance?”. ISSN: 1695-7253

Exploring the drivers of irregular spending in the EU cohesion policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2025.2472065

Regional participation to Research and Innovation programmes under Next Generation EU: The Portuguese case. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100006

Applicants and beneficiaries of innovation-related actions under the Portuguese RRP. JRC132061

In search for the best match. Complementarities between R&I funds across EU regions. JRC136780

Which projects are selected for an innovation subsidy? The Portuguese Case. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10258-019-00159-y

When cohesion meets excellence: analysing the drivers of synergies between EU R&I funding instruments in EU regions. JRC141964

Linking the ‘Recovery and Resilience Plan’ and Smart Specialisation. The Portuguese case. JRC126178

Does Smart Specialisation improve innovation subsidy effect on regional productivity? The Portuguese case. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2073787

Prototyping (online) Events to Support Entrepreneurial Discovery: The Cases of Alentejo and Algarve. JRC128151

From Digital Innovation to “Smart Tourism Destination”: Stakeholders’ reflections in times of a pandemic. JRC123390

Challenges, Opportunities and Needs for a Sustainable Bioeconomy in the Alentejo Region. JRC122316

Renewed challenges for public policies in post-2020 Cohesion Policy: From RIS3 to RIS4 and a new social dimension for smart specialisation. ISSN 2183-8992

Sources of financing: Which ones are more effective in innovation-growth linkage? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2023.101177

Does Smart Specialisation improve innovation subsidy effect on regional productivity? The Portuguese case. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2073787

Do selected firms show higher performance? The case of Portugal’s innovation subsidy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2019.04.003

Too much or not enough? The dual nature of green discontent and its geography. JRC141349

Green fault lines: Green discontent and Europe’s dwindling capacity to combat climate change (forthcoming)

How are regions using European funds to promote the circular economy? Shedding light on factors explaining the pathway. ISSN: 2632-7627

Mapping low-carbon industrial technologies projects funded by ERDF in 2014-2020. JRC128452

The twin transition in the European Union: assessing regional patterns of EU-funded investments. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2528882

Regional resilience in the era of climate change and digitalization. JRC139516

Regional R&I ventures to tackle climate change: A new geography of challenge-oriented innovation landscape. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100052

Job creation and destruction in the digital age: Assessing heterogeneous effects across European Union countries. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106405

EU-funded investment in Artificial Intelligence and regional specialization. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100190

The twin transition in the European Union: assessing regional patterns of EU-funded investments. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2528882

Regional resilience in the era of climate change and digitalization. JRC139516

Intangible investments and productivity performance. GEE paper

On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds. DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2023.2236048

An assessment of the economic performance of industrial ecosystems. JRC141103

Measuring regional economic transformation: Which European regions are leading the competitiveness and sustainable challenge? (forthcoming)

A better place to play: public support and spatial patterns of firm relocation in Europe. JRC139770

Countries’ attractiveness: An analysis of EU firms’ decisions to (de)localize R&D activities. 2013/266751

Assessing large-scale restructuring events across EU member states between 2003 and 2023. JRC141340