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Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The …
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market is still at an early stage of development. To make venture investment a growth driver, it is important to expand the …
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level. The returns from Korea’s large investment in innovation should be enhanced by improving framework conditions – easing … venture investment a growth driver, it is important to expand the role of business angels, activate the merger …
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Making SMEs and start-ups a driver of growth and job creation requires a number of policies to improve the performance of SMEs, whose labour productivity in the manufacturing sector has fallen to less than a third of that in large companies. The large-scale support for SMEs should shift from...
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. To make venture investment a growth driver, it is important to expand the role of business angels and foster …
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investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in knowledge-based capital could be made a more dynamic source of growth and …
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This paper surveys a broad range of studies and highlights the main findings of the empirical literature regarding business finance and productivity. Numerous studies analyse the productivity effects of financial development and frictions. The results suggest: 1) Financial development likely has...
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response of investment to continued demand weakness, leading in turn to a deterioration in potential output via a hysteresis … government investment as a share of GDP has further exacerbated post-crisis weakness in capital stock growth, both directly and … probably indirectly via adverse spillover effects on business investment. Finally, at a time when the use of conventional macro …
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Non-residential investment has fallen over the past 20 years as a share of GDP and is now lower than in several other … high-income OECD countries. Business investment growth has been weak since the outbreak of the global financial and … economic crisis. Government investment has been low, especially at municipal level. Investment in knowledge-based capital (KBC …
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through the channel of higher capital intensity. Overall regional investment ratios appear weakly linked to regional … productivity, but the sectoral composition of regions and their type of investment are more important determinants. Each region has …. The type of investment matters: boosting research and development in the manufacturing sector in some lagging regions …
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