Understanding causal relationships among key economic variables is crucial for policy makers, who wish to e.g. stimulate private R&D growth. To this end, we applied a technique recently imported from the Machine Learning community (Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVARs) identified using...

Although diversity between team members may bring benefits of new perspectives, nevertheless, what holds a team together is similarity. We theorise that diversity in one dimension is traded off against diversity in another. Our analysis of collaborative research teams that received FP7 funding...

Recent empirical studies have investigated the territorial impact of Europe’s research policies, in particular the contribution of the European Framework Programmes to the integration of a European Research Area. This paper deepens the analysis on the integration and participation of...

Private sector R&D is largely concentrated in a few multinational companies (MNCs), which thus play an important role in the creation of knowledge and technology in the economy. The mobility of labor between these firms and the rest of the economy is therefore an important mechanism for the...

The "EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard" (the Scoreboard), published annually since 2004, monitors top EU based R&D investing companies benchmarking them with top R&D investors located in other parts of the world. The Scoreboard is part of the European Commission's monitoring activities to...

The "EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard" (the Scoreboard), published annually since 2004, monitors top EU based R&D investing companies benchmarking them with top R&D investors located in other parts of the world. The Scoreboard is part of the European Commission's monitoring activities to...

The 2015 EU R&D Scoreboard reports economic and financial information on the world's top 2500 companies that invested €607.2 billion in R&D over the last fiscal year (2014). It comprises 608 companies based in the EU, 829 companies based in the US, 360 in Japan and 703 from the rest of the...

The 2015 EU R&D Scoreboard reports economic and financial information on the world's top 2500 companies that invested €607.2 billion in R&D over the last fiscal year (2014). It comprises 608 companies based in the EU, 829 companies based in the US, 360 in Japan and 703 from the rest of the...

Recent empirical studies have investigated the territorial impact of Europe's research policies, in particular the contribution of the European Framework Programmes to the integration of a European Research Area. This paper deepens the analysis on the integration and participation of peripheral...