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The bias of technological change in Europe

Vogel, Johanna; Kratena, Kurt; Hranyai, Kathrin - 2015

This paper is concerned with measuring and influencing the direction of technological change. First, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the factor bias of technological change using panel data from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) for 25 EU countries from 1995 to 2009. We measure...

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Civil society actors as drivers of socio-ecological transition? : green spaces in European cities as laboratories of social innovation

Schicklinski, Judith - 2015

-ecological transition? All over Europe self-organized civil society movements are emerging to tackle local challenges, becoming active …

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Urban agenda and urban sustainability strategies : taking stock of policy implementation and policy discussion

Barnebeck, Stephanie; Kalff, Yannick - 2015

their own structural, spatial, social, economic, and environmental predispositions. In a broad study of 40 cities in Europe …

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Developing resource use scenarios for Europe

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Haas, Willi - 2013

economic performance. The starting point is a scoping study by Cambridge Econometrics and Sustainable Europe Research Institute … change impacts) are grouped to envision two future world contexts for Europe, a "tough" and a more "friendly" world. For the …

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Technology platforms in Europe : an empirical investigation

De Propris, Lisa; Corradini, Carlo - 2013 - revised version

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from being able to build upon a wide but integrated spectrum of...

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The impact of green innovation on employment growth in Europe

Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - 2013

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firmlevel data for 16 European countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product...

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Industrial policies in Europe in historical perspective

Grabas, Christian; Nützenadel, Alexander - 2013

that state industrial policy in Europe after 1945 had been always one of the most controversial policy fields and that its … enormous differences between nations and regions in Europe, even when they had to face similar challenges. The paradigm shift … environment favourable to competition, innovation and technology transfer. For Western Europe, it was increasing trade and …

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City networks and the socio-ecological transition : a European inventory

Labaeye, Adrien; Sauer, Thomas - 2013

networks involving cities and regions across Europe mapping them against a set of established criteria. Findings of the …

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Innovation Policies in the European News Media Industry : A Comparative Study

van Kranenburg, Hans (ed.) - 2017

This book explores the importance and the types of media innovation policies formulated and implemented in various European countries. Each country analysis illustrates the evolution and structure of news media markets and media cross-ownership policies in recent years and evaluates how...

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New Business and Regulatory Strategies in the Postal Sector

Parcu, Pier Luigi (ed.); Brennan, Timothy J. (ed.); … - 2018

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Worldwide, there is currently a considerable amount of interest in postal and delivery economics. The industry is reacting to a state of near crisis and is implementing different drastic changes. The...

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