Using techniques of data collection and mapping as overlays to Google Maps – on the basis of patent information available online at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – we point at two major and interconnected challenges that policy-makers face in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)...

Technological change is a central element in macroeconomic growth explanation. Endogenous growth models take a revolutionary step towards better understanding the economic growth process by deriving technological change from profit-motivated individual behavior. In endogenous growth theory...