This non-technical article promotes the use of project-level data for monitoring and the evaluation of EU research and innovation policy. First, a new dataset of R&I-related projects co-funded by the ERDF during the multi-annual financial framework 2014-2020 is introduced. Second, this data is used, together with Horizon 2020 project information, in order to explore interlinkages between the funding schemes in terms of thematic priorities as well as beneficiaries. On average, 15 percent of ERDF projects could be identified as being carried out by a beneficiary that also receives funds from the Horizon 2020 programme.

Österreich weist einen bedeutenden Automobilsektor auf. Im Zuge der Dekarbonisierungsmaßnahmen zur Erreichung der Klimaziele werden konventionelle Kfz von zwei Seiten bedrängt: Sowohl ihre Herstellung wie auch ihr Betrieb sind mit beträchtlichen Emissionen verbunden. Alternative Antriebe könnten die Gesamtemissionen von Fahrzeugen senken helfen. Eine aktuelle WIFO-Studie geht der Frage nach, ob Österreich das Potential hat, auch bei alternativen Antriebssystemen eine Rolle zu spielen – und welche Probleme bei einem Technologiewechsel auftreten könnten.

This paper analyzes the location choice of migrants at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country language, as proxied by linguistic distance, are substitutes in the location decision. Based on individual-level data from a special evaluation of the European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) and a random utility maximization framework, we find that networks have a positive effect on the location decisions while the effect of linguistic distance is negative. We also find a strong positive interaction effect between the two factors: networks are more important the larger the linguistic distance between the home country and the host region, and the negative effect of linguistic distance is smaller the larger the network size. In several extensions and robustness checks, we show that this substitutable relationship is extremely robust. Especially, we demonstrate that our results are not biased by multilateral resistance to migration.