RT Journal Article T1 Regional performance in the Research, Innovation and Competitiveness Priorities of the Energy Union A1 Georgakaki, Aliki A1 Jiménez-Navarro, Juan Pablo A1 Pasimeni, Francesco A1 Fiorini, Alessandro A1 Marmier, Alain A1 Asensio, José-Miguel A2 Georgakaki, Aliki K1 Energía AB The current political and economic challenges faced by the European Union and its Member States call evenmore for evidence-informed policies. They also require tailor-made policies, developed using highly sophis-ticated analyses based not only on country-level data, but rather on regional and sub-regional knowledge.National averages, in particular, bear the risk to present a misleading picture in countries with significantdisparities between different regions and areas.Looking only at national averages can also limit and delay understanding of the differences betweenregions and cities – identifying leaders and laggards –, as well as prevent the identification of emergingtrends in certain socio-economic indicators. Only a detailed analysis of data at regional and local level canbring these insights.The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has developed the Socio-economic regionalmicroscope. It is a new series of short periodical publications which aims to open-up new areas of analysis,and present the stories which can only be told using regional socio-economic data.Each report presents EU socio-economic indicators according to a data storytelling principle, using acombination of three key elements: data, visuals (maps), and narrative. Each indicator will therefore berepresented through maps at regional level (NUTS2), and in some cases even at the NUTS3 and local level.The Socio-economic regional microscope will also show the breadth of the JRC regional analysis in awide range of research areas: culture, economics, education, energy, healthcare, research and innovation,tourism, etc.The reports, data and maps are also available on the Territorial Dashboard website of the JRC KnowledgeCentre for Territorial Policies, in the Thematic Analyses section: http://urban.jrc.ec.europa.eu/t-board/index.html#/thematic-analyses. YR 2018 FD 2018-09-24 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34051 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34051 LA eng NO Georgakaki, A., Jimenez Navarro, J., Pasimeni, F., Fiorini, A., Marmier, A. and Asensio Bermejo, J., Regional performance in the Research, Innovation and Competitiveness Priorities of the Energy Union, La Placa, G., Spirito, L. and Mondello, S. editor(s), Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018, ISBN 978-92-79-87628-8, doi:10.2760/56758, JRC112125 NO Política de acceso abierto del editor: https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/licence/com_reuse DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 19 ene 2026