Each organization has a human capital which resides in the knowledge and experience of its own employees, in their professional competence. For the purpose of using this capital as efficiently as possible in the process of carrying out working tasks, it must be given attention and support to...

The present paper aims at making a succinct overview of the EU regional development policies and strategies taking into consideration the deductive method, i.e. presenting these policies from the global/European level through the national-regional/county level up to the institutional one and...

A szerzőpáros bemutatja, hogy a kutatás-fejlesztési tevékenység statisztikáik alap ján milyen módszerekkel rangsorolhatók az egyes országok. A kiinduló problémát az jelenti, hogy ahány mutató, annyiféle nemzetközi rangsor állítható össze, s egységes statisztikai módszerek...

Largely based on an empirical study of Egypt‟s car industry, the paper criticises traditional approaches to and models of technology transfer in the new age of openness to trade and FDI and in the light of Egyptian experience. It is argued that these ideas and models, such as technological...

Since the late 80s, Barcelona has become an international metropolis where the international competitiveness of the Spanish economy has mainly been concentrated. Until now, the ways of understanding the reasons why Barcelonas economic performance has achieved such a remarkable situation are...

We study the impact of social capital in both simple theoretical and em- pirical model with the main assumption is the price of physical capital is a decreasing function of social capital. In our theoretical model, there exists a critical value such that ffrm will not invest in social capital if...

The motivations of the Arab Spring that have marked the history of humanity over the last few months have left political economists, researchers, governments and international policymakers pondering over how the quality of political institutions affect consumer welfare in terms of commodity...