6. Talent Competition Within Europe

In recent times, the ability of a region to attract and retain high-skilled personnel has become an important factor in enhancing its economic benefit and well-being. Therefore, regional benchmarking concerning talent attraction has become a powerful instrument to identify the position of each region in comparison to others and to determine strengths and weaknesses. This chapter presents new findings revealing the strongest European regions in the competition for the highly qualified and aims to gain a better understanding of the regional capability to attract and retain high-skilled workers in the European context. Therefore, every region within the European Union and Schengen was included in our study, as each entity at the sub-national level (be it a city or a region) can be innovative and compete for talents.