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Towards a new growth model in CESEE : convergence and competitiveness through smart, green and inclusive investment

Gereben, Áron; Wruuck, Patricia - 2021

a new growth model centred around a shift towards more home-grown innovation, digitalisation, climate change mitigation …

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Employer provided training in Europe : determinants and obstacles

Brunello, Giorgio; Wruuck, Patricia - 2020

This report looks at employer - provided training in Europe. We start with a brief outline of the economic theory of training. We then look at the recent facts, by combining data from two employer surveys, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS) and Eurostat's Continuous...

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Financing constraints and employers' investment in training

Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2020

Using a representative sample of European firms, this paper studies whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decisions to invest in employee training. It combines survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index...

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Young SMEs : driving innovation in Europe?

Veugelers, Reinhilde; Ferrando, Annalisa; Lekpek, Senad; … - 2018

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

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Complementarities in capital formation and production : tangible and intangible assets across Europe

Thum-Thysen, Anna; Voigt, Peter; Weiss, Christoph - 2021

This paper investigates capital formation with a view at various tangible and intangible assets across Europe. Using novel datasets both at macro and firm level, we estimate translog production functions to assess complementarities at different aggregation levels. At macro-level, our evidence...

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How to foster climate innovation in the European Union : insights from the EIB Online Survey on Climate Innovation

Delanote, Julie; Rückert, Désirée - 2022

Using survey data on climate innovation, we map climate innovation patterns across different regions and technologies …, and study the cooperation, protection and reach of climate innovation. Our analysis confirms that there is a strong link … between climate innovation and firm performance. We nevertheless observe that European firms seem to suffer from the …

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