Abstract
Currently, we are living “strange/changing times”, mainly, for populations from developed countries. Those challenges are caused by internal and external factors that are taking place inside and outside the borders of developed countries. Still, as new challenges arise, men have found new solutions to overcome existing difficulties. This might be the case of the entrepreneurship within EU borders, as a possible solution for increasing regional development of border areas.
Contributing for sustainable regional development and growth, cross-border cooperation (CBC) projects and strategies of cross-border cooperation has been as seen as critical for achieving desired territorial success, constituting fertile habitats for entrepreneurship and investment.
In this regard, it is important to analyse successful examples of European CBC projects in order to better understand not only how those issues are connected, but also how they influence and contribute for regional development.
The performed analyses enable us to understand the impacts of CBC for a sustainable growth identifying the ways territories should implement specific tools to develop structural alternatives and to open new paths towards the desired sustainable city, throughout the use of entrepreneurship as a catalyst for development.
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Notes
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The North Rhine—Westphalia is one of 16 states that make up the German administrative structure.
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MAHHL stands for the cooperation of the Maastricht-Aachen-Heerlen-Hasselt-Liège regions. The MAHHL area provides a successfull example of cross-border cooperation and Euroregional cooperation, since they share, with the Belgian and German regions, territories (Van Houdt 2009).
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The EMR 2020 strategy is the strategy within the Meuse-Rhiu Euroregion, which is the result of an internal process of participation and harmonization within the Euroregion and aims to deepen and strengthen socio-economic cooperation in the region Border. The strategy focuses on practical solutions to border barriers (EUREGIO-MR 2016).
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The ERGO Plan, has been the plan developed by the two countries, Romania and Bulgaria, for the growth of Ruse-Giurgiu region towards an European panorama. ERGO stands Euroregion Ruse-Giurgiu Operations.
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In this regard, the book of Adam Greenfield (2013), entitled: “Against the Smart City”, is a great read to understand this problematic.
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Loures, L., Castanho, R.A., Gómez, J.M.N., Cabezas, J., Fernández-Pozo, L. (2019). The Influence of Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) in the Fostering of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: A Step Closer to Achieve Major Structural Changes and Sustainable Cities Within European Territory. In: Cagica Carvalho, L., Rego, C., Lucas, M.R., Sánchez-Hernández, M.I., Backx Noronha Viana, A. (eds) New Paths of Entrepreneurship Development. Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96032-6_18
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