Increasing university--industry interaction (UII) and university contribution to the local economy are compatible--conventional wisdom would say. However, similar to other university activities, interaction with industry may be limited due to a lack of absorptive capacity in local firms. The...

This paper estimates the impact of interregional knowledge flows on the productivity of research at the regional level. We develop the novel index of ‘ego network quality’ in order to measure the contribution of knowledge accessed from the interregional network to the production of new...

Over the past 30 years universities have been increasingly considered as key instruments of regional economic development policy in many countries of the World. Contrary to the US where studying the entire universe of academic institutions is a real possibility thanks to the availability of...

fejlesztése a Pécsi Tudományegyetem Közgazdaságtudományi Karán folyó kutatások eredménye. A modellezési irányzat elsõ megvalósulása a Nemzeti Fejlesztési Hivatal számára kidolgozott és az 1. Nemzeti Fejlesztési Terv (2004-2006) hatáselemzésére alkalmazott EcoRET modell. Az...

Two modern approaches to development policy have recently evolved and dispute with each other, the space-neutral and the place-based approaches Perhaps the most notable conceptual development common in these modern approaches is a strong awareness of the key role of geography in policies...

The present policy note draws from original empirical work attempting to shed some light on the joint importance of regional innovation capacity (proxied by a novel index of regional agglomeration of knowledge intensive employment) and scientific networking (proxied by an index of interregional...

This report presents the results of "The 2008 EU Survey on R&D Investment Business Trends". It provides new insights into company expectations about future R&D investments and their motivations for investing in research. The results are drawn from the responses received from 130 large companies...