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In spring the European Commission published its first "Alert Mechanism Report" on macroeconomic imbalances in the European Union summarising ten indicators in a scoreboard. Austria exceeded the relevant thresholds in three cases: 1. Austria's export market share decreased by 14.8 percent during...

The countries of the Black Sea region, located at the strategic crossroads between Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, are rapidly gaining in importance, considering their geographic proximity, rich mineral resources and potential as a sales market and labour pool. The article looks into...

Due to their geographical proximity, their natural resources as well as their market potential and labour pool, the countries of the Black Sea region located at the strategic crossroads of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East are gaining increasing importance. As the economies are expanding...

Die Terms-of-Trade (ToT) bezeichnen das Tauschverhältnis von Warenimporten zu Warnexporten, also die Relation von Export- zu Importpreisen. Das Einwirken gegenläufiger Kräfte führte in Österreich dazu, dass sich die ToT im langfristigen Vergleich relativ stabil entwickelten. Die vorliegende...

Smart Specialisation-Strategien (3S) stellen einen neuen Ansatz im Kontext der Europäischen Industrie- und Regionalpolitik dar. Dies sind wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen, die darauf abzielen, neue Spezialisierungen auf der Grundlage bestehender räumlich und technologisch konzentrierter...

The concepts social innovation and social entrepreneurship have gained considerable attention both in different fields of academic research and in the context of the development of economic and social policies. However, despite its wide-spread use there does not exist a unique or at least widely...

The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal principle for its population, assuring economic and social...

The development of "green" industries is commonly seen as a necessary even though not sufficient condition for the transition towards ecologically sustainable paths of economic development. It is also a recurrent view that pro-active and successful policy action in this domain will not only...

This paper examines whether PageRank algorithms are a valid instrument for the analysis of technical progress in specific technological fields by means of patent citation data. It provides evidence for patent data in biotechnology. Recent literature has been critical with regard to the use of...