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This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed to advance both efficiency and equity. Returns to educational investments tend to decrease over the life cycle. Moreover, they seem to be highest for children from disadvantaged...
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Current innovation policy is the result of decades of research about the nature and role of innovation in economic … growth. Such investigation has contributed to redesign our knowledge not only on the role played by innovation in economic … development but also about the relationship between innovation and territory. Although the huge literature examining the …
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The paper aims at investigating whether Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) can have a role in facilitating regional Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3). Drawing on the economic geography approach to S3, we formulate some hypotheses about the impact that KETs-related knowledge can have on the...
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It is almost unanimously accepted that research and development, innovation and knowledge creation play a major role in … questions: To what extent do the learning regions in Romania provide a framework for innovation, development and social … of the role of knowledge and innovation in valuing the economic potential of a region …
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This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...
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There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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regained through more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied by more …
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in Europe as in the US. Asian countries may - as a result - have improved their position in innovation. The room for …
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employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
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human capital development relevant in the context of the innovation society. The chapter goes through 5 key ideas: 1) The … mismatch between formal education and the challenges of the innovation society. 2) The shift from what we learn to how we learn …
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