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Selling the ivory tower and regional development: Technology transfer offices as mediators of university-industry linkages
Reiner, Christian - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2010
This article focuses on the role of Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) in regional development in three Austrian regions that represent different types of regional economies. TTOs can be defined as “bridging institutions” between academia and business. The value added by this approach...
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Az egyetemi vállalkozó - legenda vagy valóság az európai regionális fejlődés elősegítésére?
Varga, Attila; Erdős, Katalin - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … LVII (2010) 5, pp. 457-472
Vajon a kontinentális európai viszonyok között jelen vannak-e egyáltalán azok a speciális "akadémiai" hajtóerők, amelyek az egyetemek kutatói által működtetett - úgynevezett kipörgetett - vállalkozások mögött húzódnak meg? Támogatják vagy hátráltatják ezen akadémiai...
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Student graduation: to what extent does university expenditure matter?
García-Estévez, Javier; Duch-Brown, Néstor - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012
Human capital is one of the most important channels via which universities positively affect regional development. This paper analyzes the relationship between university characteristics and graduation rates, and the role of regional characteristics in this process. We assemble a dataset for the...
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Creative Industries, New Business Formation and Regional Economic Growth
Piergiovanni, Roberta; Carree, Martin; Santarelli, Enrico - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are...
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MEASURING WELL-BEING IN A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE: A MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL APPLICATION TO ITALIAN REGIONS
Ferrara, Antonella Rita; Nisticò, Rosanna - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e … - 2014
Italy is, at least, as relevant as the economic divide, suggesting the importance of paying much more attention in public …
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Mapping Italy’s social capital
Sabatini, Fabio - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2007) 1
. Areas characterized by high levels of bonding social capital, such as Southern Italy, suffer from a lack of the bridging and … linking ties that characterize Northern Italy and are considered better suited to promoting economic growth and development. …
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Cluster Policy as a Development Strategy. Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Benner, Maximilian - 2012
Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...
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Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, & Income Levels: Some US State-Level Empirics
Wiseman, Travis; Young, Andrew - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2011
Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following pairs of variables: (1) institutions and entrepreneurial activity; (2) institutions and economic growth; and (3) entrepreneurship and economic growth. This paper revisits each of...
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The approach to transforming the traditional agricultural economy: a research on the multiple paths of poverty alleviation and transformation in rural China
Wei, ZOU; Ziyin, ZHUANG - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 1 (2006) 2, pp. 272-295
Transforming a traditional agricultural economy into a modern economy is one of the main themes in economic development. Through theoretical and empirical analysis, this paper finds out that the key to transformation is to raise the economic value of people, to improve human capital investment...
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Growth and Convergence across the U.S: Evidence from County-Level Data
Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005
We use U.S. county data (3,058 observations) and 41 conditioning variables to study growth and convergence. Using OLS and 3SLS-IV we report on the full sample and metro, non-metro, and 5 regional samples: (1) OLS yields convergence rates around 2 percent; 3SLS yields 6–8 percent; (2)...
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