individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

concentration and innovation. This paper addresses this gap with an analysis of around 1,300 UK SMEs. The results suggest that firms …

international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … for the 1990s. This paper documents the extent of this economic dilemma confronting Germany as well as the rest of Western …

this paper for the particular case of Spain, a fast growing country in the second half of the twentieth century. It is …

government. We estimate the model using 1995Q1-2013Q2 data for Spain, the rest of the Euro Area (REA) and the rest of the world … for Spanish households and firms, as well as a fall in the interest rate spread between Spain and the REA fuelled the … Spanish output boom and the persistent rise in foreign capital flows to Spain, before the global financial crisis. During and …

financial market. Banking in Spain has undergone a strong liberalization process in the last fifteen years, which has …

describes the strengths and weaknesses of Spain’s recent long growth cycle, the real and financial imbalances accumulated … pressure, partly initiated by unjustified catastrophic expectations about Spain, provides an opportunity for accelerating the …