The aim of this paper is to put forward a taxonomy of national innovation systems(NISs). With that purpose in mind we will first implement a technique for mappinginnovation systems that was developed by Godinho et al. (2003). Such mapping allowsone to compare directly different NISs, by...

This paper argues that media and communications theory, as with cultural and creative industries analysis, can benefit from a deeper understanding of economic growth theory. Economic growth theory is elucidated in the context of both cultural and media studies and with respect to modern Chinese...

The paper put in antithesis, theoretically, two models of development and evolution of mankind, namely, economic development based on consumption of the exhaustible resources and pollution and on the other hand the development based on the concepts of sustainable development, involving a new...

The research paper starts from the reality that each country faces challenges in the balanced economic development of its territory. Inequalities in the levels of development of the regions of a country have arisen either as a result of changing economic conditions, the development of economic...

The research paper starts from the reality that each country faces challenges in the balanced economic development of its territory. Inequalities in the levels of development of the regions of a country have arisen either as a result of changing economic conditions, the development of economic...

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses a broad set of relevant variables for monitoring inflationary pressures in the Spanish economy. On the basis of these variables, composite indicators are calculated that proxy inflation expectations, the degree of slack in the economy and other...

Positive and negative predictive values are important measures of accuracy whenone compares the accuracy of diagnostic tests. When more than one diagnostic tests areavailable, one may has to choose one of the possible diagnostic tests due to cost, time, orethical reason. We consider a pair study...

In the first part of the dissertation, we derive two methods for responders analysis in longitudinal data with random missing data. Often a binary variable is generated by dichotomizing an underlying continuous variable measured at a specific point in time according to a prespecified threshold...

Considerable recent interest has focused on doubly robust estimatorsfor a population mean response in the presence of incomplete data,which involve models for both the propensity score and the regressionof outcome on covariates. The ``usual" doubly robust estimator mayyield severely biased...

In this thesis, we address issues of model estimation for longitudinal categorical data and of model selection for these data with missing covariates. Longitudinal survey data capture the responses of each subject repeatedly through time, allowing for the separation of variation in the measured...