concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses … concept of competitiveness that embeds beyond-GDP objectives (MS46). It then extends this work by deriving an initial set of … competitiveness, it specifically discusses the new concept of competitiveness proposed in MS46 and the notion of trade-offs among …

Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities … regional data, especially on employment and patents, we examine whether the involved industries have developed better in …

As the Chinese economy continues to decelerate, the central government is investing heavily in innovation, doubling … so far, looking at the inputs to innovation (R&D and human capital) as well as intermediate targets, such as scientific … bottlenecks that might be hindering the translation of China's innovation efforts into productivity growth. …