Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic … in resolving or channeling the major societal questions. More European competition between universities in education and … research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

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. …

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … British Industrial Revolution. We also discuss empirical studies documenting the importance of culture and preference …

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … governments’ policies foster this contribution across Europe. The study stresses the relevance of policies which are ‘empowering … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality … employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …

into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on … and are more likely to display the inverted U relationship between competition and innovation. …

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

non-labor income, controlling for both spouses' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Households whose culture of …