The goal of the present paper is to explore the optimal subsidy of R&D by both the foreign and home countries in a model based on Herguera and Lutz (The World Economy, 1998). While they assume the home country subsidy is designed to help the home country "leapfrog" the foreign, we assume...

The main changes in the European regional policy are taking an active form. It finds expression in the influence of factors, which determine competitiveness of particular regions. These factors include also the quality of human resources and the capability of creating and introducing...

Political transformations, which took place in the former socialist countries after 1989, caused that the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary came to be treated as "Central Europe." This paper aims at presenting this process in a historical approach and assessing whether these countries...

The final goal of the paper is to answer the question why the employment targets of the Lisbon Strategy are difficult to be fulfilled in Poland. Our hypothesis is that in countries in transition including Poland the two general goals of the Lisbon Strategy: competitiveness increase and...

This paper was presented at the 16th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association in Lodz, Poland, May 12, 2006.

Paper presented at the 16th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association focusing on "Globalization and its Controversies", in Lodz, Poland, May 10 -14, 2006. Funding for this project was provided by the US Fulbright Program and the US-Israel Educational Foundation.

While much research has been directed at variables critical to successful R&D of new and high-technology products, much less work has been directed at factors crucial to success of these products when the firm attempts to enter the international marketplace. This study surveys Finnish technology...

The debate about globalization is heavy and ongoing, among proponents and opponents as well as among scholars of different backgrounds and at the global arena as well as in more intimate meetings places of humans. Much of that debate is related to the issue of global poverty, across as well as...

Public procurements may be considered at central and sub-central levels and state -owned enterprises. In value terms, the largest opportunities arise in the industrialised countries and emerging economics as well. While it is possible to observe the rules dealing with public procurement, it is...

This paper presents a model that combines the key features of a Schumpeterian growth model without scale effects and a North-South model of trade. All open economies converge to parallel growth paths because of costly technological transfer. The effects of intellectual property rights (IPR)...