KEY COMMON AND COMPLEMENTARY COMPETENCIES OF THE CROSS-BORDER REGION SLOVENIA-AUSTRIA Damjan Kavaš Sonja Uršič Klemen Koman WORKING PAPER No. 88, 2015 December, 2015 Key Common and Complementary Competencies of the Cross-Border Region Slovenia- Austria Damjan Kavaš1, Sonja Uršič2, Klemen Koman3 KEY COMMON AND COMPLEMENTARY COMPETENCIES OF THE CROSS-BORDER REGION SLOVENIA-AUSTRIA Printed by the Institute for Economic Research – IER Copyright retained by the authors. Number of copies – 50 pieces WORKING PAPER No. 88, 2015 Editor of the WP series: Boris Majcen. CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 332.1:339.92 KAVAŠ, Damjan, 1970- Key common and complementary competencies of the cross-border region Slovenia- Austria / Damjan Kavaš, Sonja Uršič, Klemen Koman. - Ljubljana : Inštitut za ekonomska raziskovanja = Institute for Economic Research, 2015. - (Working paper / Inštitut za ekonomska raziskovanja, ISSN 1581-8063 ; no. 88) ISBN 978-961-6906-36-4 1. Uršič, Sonja, 1976- 2. Koman, Klemen 282787840 1 Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
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[email protected] Abstract This working paper presents the results of the analysis of capacities of the cross-border region Slovenia-Austria and the subsequent identification of its key common and complementary competencies. The paper was triggered by the fact that past cross-border co-operation projects lacked strategic focus on long-term key development priorities (i.e. key common and complementary competencies) of the co-operation area. We start our analysis by presenting the socio-economic development in the regions concerned and complement the analysis with the description of global challenges, Europe 2020 targets as well as key impacting policies and key (recent) trends at national and regional level.