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in its science and innovation systems, briefly recount policy initiatives to improve them, and outline the main arguments … Scotland. The science system has been strengthened during the 2000s as devolution brought a set of new and expanded funding … science base and Scotland?s innovation system, and the lack of coherent policy to address that 'disconnect'. The questions are …
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communities build up especially in the case of analytical modes of knowledge production. Rationales for a global science system …
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science has not been regarded as important in the innovations leading to modern steelmaking. In addition, how did science … role of science and "Industrial Enlightenment." When much time elapses between scientific and technological advances, the … role of science is often not regarded as important and sensational innovations such as the Bessemer process are emphasized …
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The paper evaluates the impact of the EU Eastern enlargement 2004 on the economic performance of border regions located at the frontier to the new member states in the East. These regions were assumed to be particularly affected by the enlargement because of their geographic proximity to the new...
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This article deals with the domestic location of German multinational firms which have affiliates in the Czech Republic. Due to the common border the Czech Republic represents an attractive target country for both vertical and horizontal direct investments. In the year 2009 the sum of direct and...
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During the last century there has been a huge reduction in trade costs at almost every spatial scale impulsed not only by technological advances applied to transport and communication systems, but also by the spread of regional trade agreements and other related schemes. This estringent fall has...
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We develop a theory of economic disintegration that features both endogenously formed tax and trade policies. We show very generally that the economic disintegration of a country from an economic union leads to a deeper integration of international trade institutions. Moreover, we set up a...
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