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Ways of Thinking About Economic Growth: Papers from MED's Growth Seminar Series
Carlaw, Kenneth; Easton, Brian; Grimes, Arthur; Mare, David - Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, … - 2008
The Ministry of Economic Development ran a series of seminars about economic growth in 2004. One was an economic history of economic growth in New Zealand, three were on different and sometimes contradictory conceptual ways of thinking about economic growth – endogenous growth theory, Austrian...
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Creativity as an integral element of social capital and its role for economic performance
Westlund, Hans; Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818716
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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144510
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A critical realist interpretation of evolutionary growth theorising
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The article discusses a critical realist interpretation of evolutionary growth theorising by focusing on some of its basic characteristics. The evolutionary ontology is complex, differentiated, structured, systemic, open, ever-changing, and radically uncertain. Its methodology tends to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765936
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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256552
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Research, higher education and innovation: redesigning multi-level governance within Europe in a period of crisis
Ritzen, Jo; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
In this paper we present a vision for the course Europe should take in its research and higher education policies in order to fully live up to the expectations of its citizens to provide a safe, comfortable, affluent and sustainable environment in this period of considerable financial restraint...
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Tax competition, capital mobility, and innovation in the public sector
Rauscher, Michael - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2005
The paper analyses the impact of tax competition on innovation in the public sector. It is shown that the effects of … increased mobility of the tax base on innovation and growth are ambiguous. The negative relationship is more likely, however …
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Innovación y crecimiento económico: Factores que estimulan la innovación
Galindo Martín, Miguel-Ángel; Ribeiro, Domingo; … - In: Cuadernos de Gestión (2012)
[ES] El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el papel que desempeñan las innovaciones en la actividad económica. En este sentido, se muestra la relación que existe entre innovaciones y crecimiento económico, como objetivo esencial actual de la política económica para reducir el desempleo...
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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by means of the number of patent applications per million inhabitants. Given the geographical … concentration and subsequent diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take … of McDonald's restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a …
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