future of innovation? First-rate inventions in the 1990s, notably the web and user-friendly business productivity software … markets that welcome innovation, while Europe remains under the control of corporatist institutions that dampen competition …

of R&D that firms do and the amount of spillover they generate; between information sharing and research coordination …; between each of the latter and cooperation; between substitute and complementary research paths; between firms located in the … cooperation (different industries, complementary research, research design) while cooperation need not induce information sharing …

This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational … moderate, short-term consumption loss. Human capital is complement to all forms of innovation and an educational policy … stimulates both energy and general purpose innovation. This result has important policy implications considering the growing …

We provide an analysis of the 2008-2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. First, we …

The present Paper studies the retirement incentives for elderly people in Belgium. We model the incentive structure … wealth. In a third step, we perform an empirical estimation of micro-econometric probit and option value models. From our …

of social pressures for higher wages and deflationary monetary policy, and by weaknesses in innovation and new product …

tax (AMT) in Belgium with a focus on the impact on various distortions margins. In the process, we provide an up-to date … better off under an asset based AMT than under an income based AMT. But any decision on the AMT in Belgium is likely to be …