Ireland has been one of the global economic success stories of the last 20 years. National income rose from less than 65% of the EU15 average in the mid 1980s to well above parity today. Ireland is also the most FDI-intensive economy in Europe. Section A of the present report provides an...

This paper provides the first empirical attempt of linking firms’ profits and investment in R&D revisiting Knight’s (1921) distinction between uncertainty and risk. Along with the risky profit-maximizing scenario, identifying a second, off-setting, unpredictable bias that leads to...

The paper investigates the barriers to collaboration in terms of hidden transaction costs, by deriving the distribution of the operating costs and sunk costs associated with firms’ investment choices in R&D and innovation activities with or without a research partner. To retrieve both fixed...

In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting methodology, which tries to measure the contributions to...

The aim of INAA is to improve the quality of life (reducing feelings of loneliness, maintaining a meaningful life, creating a feeling of solidarity) and autonomy of frail elderly people living independently, allowing them to maintain a high level of physical functioning. In addition, this...

The ETXEAN ONDO pilot project is an integrated care approach which was implemented in the Basque Country. It aimed to provide adequate support and care for elderly people living at home or in nursing homes, for family members and care professionals. The key elements of this model were the...

Badalona Serveis Assistencials (BSA) is an integrated private care organisation, funded entirely by public capital. It manages the Hospital Municipal de Badalona, the Homecare Integrated Service, the Socio Health Centre El Carme, 7 Primary Care Centres and the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive...

This report aims to provide information about the Commitments that joined the EIP on AHA in the Second Invitation for Commitment in April 2013 and to report this data, whenever possible, with that from the commitments that joined the First Invitation for Commitment (June 2012), providing...

As the initial Monitoring Framework may not be fully relevant for the overarching objective of the EIP on AHA and the Triple Win, either because the Action Groups commitments cannot use specific indicators or because some of the indicators initially thought of may not be best suited for...

The rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) may be considered as one of the decisive trends of economic evolution of industrialised countries in recent decades. This paper uses the concept of vertical integrated sectors and the subsystem approach to input-output matrix analysis to...