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The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the economic performance across regions. However, empirical evidence for this claim has been not very convincing, probably due to low quality of the data. This paper provides a robustness analysis of alternative human...
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concerning the clear identification of the education and creativity components of human capital. The main purpose of this paper …
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A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, in … technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess …
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to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience …. However, while there is a wide support in the empirical literature of the positive impacts of education and experience on … effects is that education, experience, health and wages are interrelated. To deal with these issues, we implement an Efficient …
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This paper draws on a sample of innovative Catalan firms to identify the effects of the two main sources of innovation - internal R&D and external R&D acquisition - on productivity in the manufacturing and service industries. The sample comprises a 3,267 firms from the CIS-4 for the years...
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&D investments are geographically linked to the network of higher education institutions, especially in the interior regions of the …
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Which countries benefit most from emerging technological opportunities? An enquiry into the changing geography of knowledge base complexity in the upstream petroleum industry This article aims to unravel the relationship between dynamics of knowledge base complexity and the international...
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Technological change ? Knowledge transfer dynamics and its influence on Regional Development, b) the Entrepreneurship education: The … some European Regions, d) the current situation in Greek Higher Education, focusing on the New Educational Law and … especially on the plan "Athena" of the Ministry of Education, for the restructure / reallocation of the Greek Universities and …
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through their strong reputations. They are educating students and have created a highly successful cooperative education … programme, which incorporates mainly regional companies in the education of the students through demanding internships and …
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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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