Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&Dexpenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advancedtransition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and found...

Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...

PART I: INCREASING COMPETITIVNESS THROUGH R&D AND INNOVATIONSChapter 1 From LISBON To "Lisbon"Janez PrašnikarChapter 2 EU and Economic GrowthA.W. BootChapter 3 How European Financial Institutions Affect Their R&D and Economic DevelopmentJiang Tong and Chenggang XuChapter 4 Internationalization...

We approached the issue of blockholding effectiveness and behaviour by studying some exemplary organisational transformations in the Republic of Srpska. We found two distinct clusters of blockholdings. The first cluster is worker-entrenched blockholdings, where most workers are unionised. The...