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THE ROLE OF INNOVATION IN COMPETITIVENESS AND CONVERGENCE PROCESS: A BENCHMARKING STUDY FOR EUROPEAN REGIONS
Korres, George M.; Kokkinou, Aikaterini - In: Regional Science Inquiry 3 (2011) 2, pp. 123-133
enhancement and convergence of growth and productivity are a major topic in the economic and social policy agenda of E.U. members … deficits and public debt, but also to national disparities and convergence attainment. This paper aims to review the main … topics related to innovation activities, as well as competitiveness and economic convergence attainment. It also attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658753
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THE ROLE OF INNOVATION IN COMPETITIVENESS AND CONVERGENCE PROCESS: A BENCHMARKING STUDY FOR EUROPEAN REGIONS
Korres, George M.; Kokkinou, Aikaterini - In: Regional Science Inquiry III (2011) 2, pp. 123-133
enhancement and convergence of growth and productivity are a major topic in the economic and social policy agenda of E.U. members … deficits and public debt, but also to national disparities and convergence attainment. This paper aims to review the main … topics related to innovation activities, as well as competitiveness and economic convergence attainment. It also attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659288
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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Growth through research and development
Belitz, Heike; Junker, Simon; Podstawski, Max; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 35, pp. 455-465
DIW Berlin has examined the effects of investment in research and development on economic growth in Germany and other OECD countries. Their results show that an increase of one percentage point in research and development spending in the economy as a whole leads to a short-term average increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011319159
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Wachstum durch Forschung und Entwicklung
Belitz, Heike; Junker, Simon; Podstawski, Max; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 35, pp. 751-762
Das DIW Berlin hat die Wachstumswirkungen von Investitionen in Forschung und Entwicklung in Deutschland und weiteren OECD-Ländern untersucht. Demnach führt ein Anstieg des Wachstums der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Forschungsausgaben um einen Prozentpunkt kurzfristig zu einer Erhöhung des Wachstums...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324346
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Education, Research, and Economic Growth
Caspari, Volker; Rubart, Jens; Rehme, Günther - 2004
It is obvious that the German economy exhibits a significant decline in economic growth during the last two decades. Although the German economy has still to overcome the burden of the reunification in 1990 it is shown that this burden might be only one reason of this decline. In this study we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262987
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Wachstum durch Forschung und Entwicklung
Belitz, Heike; Junker, Simon; Podstawski, Maximilian; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 82 (2015) 35, pp. 751-762
Das DIW Berlin hat die Wachstumswirkungen von Investitionen in Forschung und Entwicklung in Deutschland und weiteren OECD-Ländern untersucht. Demnach führt ein Anstieg des Wachstums der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Forschungsausgaben um einen Prozentpunkt kurzfristig zu einer Erhöhung des Wachstums...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312753
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Transition to knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses the progress in transition to knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia. As for the methodology, this paper uses updated secondary data obtained from different sources. It uses both descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the OECD definition of knowledge-based economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856325
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Overview of knowledge transfer in MENA countries - The case of Egypt
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper provides an overview of knowledge transfer and explains the factors that enable or impede absorption capacity and knowledge transfer in the MENA countries, with particular reference to the case of Egypt. We employ the conceptual framework used in the international literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856458