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Knowledge based firms from Central and East European countries : a comparative overview of case studies

Woodward, Richard; Yörük, Deniz Eylem; Radošević, Slavo - 2011

This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be … studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six ECE countries, we suggest that KBE firms in these countries may differ in … some important ways from the conventional picture of new technology based firms. In general, we see the ECE knowledge …

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Economic Restructuring and Labour Market Developments in the New EU Member States

Landesmann, Michael; Vidovic, Hermine; Ward, Terry - 2004

· Job creation in the new EU Member States (NMS) and the EU candidate countries remains low despite high GDP growth in most countries. However, there are significant differences in developments among these countries (most recently between Poland and the other new Member States). · Labour...

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Employment Developments in Central and Eastern Europe

Landesmann, Michael; Vidovic, Hermine - 2006

The present study examines the evolution of employment and labour market trends in the new EU member states (NMS), the accession countries (ACs) and the countries of Southeastern Europe (SEE) over the past decade and a half. It focuses on selected labour market indicators and compares them with...

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Western Balkans: Employment in the Gas and Electricity Sectors

Astrov, Vasily; Christie, Edward; Hanzl-Weiss, Doris; … - 2011

The objective of this study is to analyse employment developments in the gas and electricity sectors in seven Western Balkan Contracting Parties of the Energy Community. These are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo...

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Assessment of the Labour Market in Serbia

Gligorov, Vladimir; Ognjenović, Kosovka; Vidovic, Hermine - 2011

In the period after the political changes in the year 2000, GDP growth in Serbia was rather rapid and compares favourably with other transition countries in Southeastern Europe. It was driven mainly by the expansion of services, with industrial production and agriculture basically stagnating...

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Migration Patterns of Serbian and Bosnia and Herzegovina Migrants in Austria: Causes and Consequences

Landesmann, Michael; Mara, Isilda; Vidovic, Hermine - 2013

The study provides new empirical evidence about migration patterns of immigrants from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Austria before and after the free visa regime implemented from January 2010 and January 2011 respectively for the two groups of migrants. In this framework a new survey was...

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The impact of energy prices on green innovation: Study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE

Ley, Marius; Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2013

industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio … lag between energy prices and innovation activities. Robustness tests confirm the main results. …

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Innovation and the growth of service firms: The Polish case

Szczygielski, Krzysztof; Grabowski, Wojciech; Woodward, … - 2013

investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish … the impact of innovation on employment growth depends on the macroeconomic situation. …

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Innovationsaktivitäten in der Schweizer Wirtschaft: Eine Analyse der Ergebnisse der Innovationserhebung 2011

Arvanitis, Spyros; Ley, Marius; Seliger, Florian; … - 2013

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Knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Poland

Woodward, Richard; Yörük, Deniz Eylem; Koć, Patryk; … - 2010

transition economy context but which is of particular importance for the modernization of the transition economies: knowledge … National Innovation System, with particular attention devoted to the question of finance and policy initiatives. We then turn …

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