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Over time, the research has played a key role in the economic development reflected by the GDP growth, the increase of … the patents' number, the volume of exports, the economic competitiveness of countries which have invested in research and … the expenditures with the Research and Development and the number of patents reported at 1 million inhabitants, influences …
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In this paper we look at the evolution of the R&D intensity gap between the EU and its major competitors using data from the Industrial Scoreboard covering the period 2002-2010. We focus on R&D intensity and we assess whether the gaps relative to major competitors arise from differences in...
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Difficulty in extracting scientific and research findings from EU universities and placing such knowledge at the … support of research-based start-up firms, with some differences based on respondents' discipline [(1) biological sciences, 2 … measures taken by their universities, and those who: a. have worked on externally-funded research projects with colleagues from …
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This paper investigates empirically determinants of regional growth. The scant literature that exists indicates that a region's economic growth depends to a large extent on several features of the regions themselves, which evolve slowly over time. Our results contribute to this set of...
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In the recent past, interest of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) policies to influence the innovation behaviour of firms has been increased considerably. This gives rise to the notion of behavioural additionality, broadening traditional evaluation concepts of input and output...
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This study basically focuses on the analysis of the net effect of the government R&D support program on the local firms' technology development and its performance. And then it examines whether and how much R&D raises the effects of local firms' technology development and its performance. It...
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Responding to research questioning the significance of external factors such as industry and country in explaining the …
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Investment subsidies to private firms have been one of the most popular place-based policies in developed countries; however, the empirical evidence to date is still mixed and there is no general consensus on the effectiveness of such policy. Most evaluation studies have focused on the policy...
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