Stancik, Juraj; Biagi, Federico - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
structural and an intrinsic component and, comparing the EU to its main competitors, we find that the gap is largely structural … the US and to the BRICS. In the second part of the paper, we focus on the EU-US comparison and, using firm-level data, we … innovative companies might play a role in closing the EU-US R&D intensity gap. …