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The regional significance of university locations in Lower Saxony

Stöver, Britta - 2019

-side contributions of the university locations within Lower-Saxony using a combination of multiplier analysis and spatial econometrics on … or a selected university location but gives a complete picture of the importance and significance of all university … results give a complete and reproducible impression of the importance and significance of the different university locations …

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The contribution of universities to growth : empirical evidence for Italy

Carree, Martin Anthony; Della Malva, Antonio; … - 2011 - Version: October 21, 2011

New entrepreneurial ventures may represent a viable and effective mechanism to transform academic knowledge into regional economic growth. We test this notion for the Italian provinces between 2001 and 2006. We evaluate three outputs of academic activities: teaching, research and Intellectual...

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Do universities improve local economic resilience?

Howard, Greg; Weinstein, Russell; Yang, Yuhao - 2021

the effect of a regional university. We find that having a regional university roughly offset the negative effects of … public university spending. …

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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility

Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024

We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction...

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Enhancing skills to boost growth in Hungary

Machlica, Gabriel - 2017

Skill requirements in the labour market have significantly changed over the past two decades. The restructuring of the economy is making the labour market increasingly knowledge-based. The education system has reacted to this structural change, but as the pace has been relatively slow, many...

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The Victoria University Regional Model (VURM) : technical documentation, version 1.0

Adams, Philip D.; Dixon, Janine M.; Horridge, Mark - 2015

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Can the University Save Europe?

Ritzen, Jo - 2012

Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...

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More publicly funded research, more knowledge spillovers, more economic growth? : an empirical analysis for German regions

Eberle, Jonathan; Brenner, Thomas; Mitze, Timo - 2018

differentiating between public research activities conducted by universities, technical colleges (Fachhochschulen) and non-university … between the publication rate of non-university research institutes and regional investment and employment rates. Furthermore …

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The Brazilian regional development funds and economic growth : a spatial panel approach

Cravo, Túlio A.; Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2015

The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...

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Higher education subsidies and the universal insurance against a short life

Ponthière, Grégory - 2024

This paper examines the potential role of higher education subsidies as an insurance device against the risk of having a short life, that is, as a device reducing the variance in lifetime well-being due to unequal longevities. We use a two-period dynamic OLG economy with human capital and risky...

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