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Extensive literature on the contribution of knowledge spillovers to growth and development at the regional level exists but these studies mainly features regions characterised by a high level of economic development. This paper assesses the importance of knowledge spillovers for firms located in...
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After a period of convergence where many perceived the country as a success case, Portugal’s economic performance proved to be disappointing in the last decade. In this study we focus on the relationship between technology and economic catching-up in order to answer to two major questions: (i)...
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(innovation) with easy to measure activities (routine) is particularly costly, since it will either lead to misallocation of … and to financial constraints imposed by capital markets, both of which are hostile to innovation. …
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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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The importance of promoting innovation has been elevated up to a status of official standard since the Lisbon European … innovation could be built. R&D has been a growing area of investigation namely at level of firms micro studies aimed at … uncovering firms’ innovation capability. At the macro level, the relevance of R&D for countries’ innovation capability has been …
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The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...
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