coordination. In particular we provide estimates for New EU Member States where we take into account two aspects. First, debt …

-research performed within SIMPATIC (www.simpatic.eu). To analyse the impact of public R&D on growth, we need to complement the micro … GDP growth and jobs in applied macro-models most commonly used in EU policy analysis. We focus particularly on the NEMESIS …

role, especially in new high-tech sectors. This view of a structural EU innovation deficit has many supporters. But it has … to the US, the EU has fewer young firms among its leading innovators. But this accounts for only about one-third of the … EU-US differential. The largest part of the differential is due to the fact that young leading innovators in the EU are …

instruments, like subsidies, when used in isolation. For the EU, this is perhaps the biggest challenge for its green technology …

. Who are the leading and who are the lagging EU countries? Is there a trend towards convergence over time? And how has the … crisis affected this trend of convergence? We then take a look at the research and innovation policies which the EU countries … have in place and try to assess whether these policies match with the heterogeneous EU countries' innovation capacity …