Presently, the GDP of the European Union includes more than 70 percent of services which are by definition less precisely measured than material products. This makes the computation of concept like potential output, productivity, etc. more difficult and uncertain than before. This paper proposes...

Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) integrates economic and environmental data to understand the connections between economic and environmental resources. The European Union (EU) has shown strong policy support for NCA, amending Regulation 691/2011 to include ecosystem accounts (EA) as a mandatory...

The 2015 series of RIO Country Reports analyse and assess the policy and the national research and innovation system developments in relation to national policy priorities and the EU policy agenda with special focus on ERA and Innovation Union. The executive summaries of these reports put...