Barbara Burchi & Iacopo Cavallini 
Tourism Competitiveness in the Italy-France Cross-Border Area 
The Role of Knowledge and Innovation Transfer

Iacopo Cavallini works as researcher at University of Pisa, Department of Economics and Management. He received the Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2002. His research interests include Public Accounting and Business Management. He has been the coordinator of several research projects, such as ART2 – funded by the Programme IFM 2007 -2013 – the Strategic Plan for Boating of the Province of Sassari, and RE.TUR.N – funded by Region Tuscany for the development of a study on socio-economic impacts of yachting in Tuscany. He collaborated to the realization of a study on the harmonization of Italian public accounting systems and of internal control systems of several Italian municipalities. He is also an official member of the Independent Organisms for the Performance Assessment of the Chambers of Commerce of Livorno and Firenze. This book presents the objectives, main steps and results of a European cooperation project, focusing on the importance of scientific competencies for the exploitation of the synergies and complementarities between tourism and other priority sectors for the sustainable socio-economic development of a given macro-region. This book also highlights the role of the European Union Funds for regional competitiveness with a practical guide of the most important EU instruments for financing projects on tourism, specifically connected with research and other priority sectors.Target Audience:Companies (in particular SMEs), researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, who have direct interests or operate in the sector of tourism, or the same subjects who operate in the other cross-border priority sectors but they want to collaborate for the development and reinforcement of the tourism as the recognized territorial leverage to improve the socio-economic development of a given region or macro-region..