This keynote speech at the informal European Competitiveness Council (industry ministers) addresses the uneasy relationship of industrial and environmental policies, which was among the core agendas of the Polish EU presidency in 2011. In the presentation, emphasis is given to the major...

This contribution to the George Washington University's Round Table on Financing Innovation summarises the findings of a recent publication about the impacts of venture capital on firm growth and innovation. Applying a two-stage propensity score matching on Austrian micro-data, the findings...