-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 …

private green innovation machine. We try to assess how strong which types of government interventions have and can be to power … the green innovation machine. An important insight from the economic analysis of the effectiveness of the public … 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 …