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Structural change, productivity growth and Structural Funds in European regions

Pontarollo, Nicola - European Regional Science Association - 2013

A key factor for a stable and solid development is the gain in labor productivity. The regions that manage to pull out of poverty and improve the living standards of their inhabitants, in fact, need to be able to diversify away from agriculture and other traditional sectors. In doing this, the...

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Quality of governance and innovative performance in the EU Regions

Cataldo, Marco Di; Andrés RodrÃguez-Pose - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Although it has frequently been argued that the quality of institutions affects the innovative potential of a territory, the link between institutions and innovation remains a black box. This paper aims to shed light on how institutions shape innovative capacity, by focusing on how regional...

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UniversitiesÂ´ funding in the the current global financial crisis: Threat or opportunity for the implementation of Triple Helix Theory?

Balomenou, Chrysanthi; kolovos, Konstantinos - European Regional Science Association - 2013

their new role in terms of supporting the local entrepreneurship, as well. The used method for analyzing the results is the …

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The entrepreneurial performance of the Central and Eastern European regions

Páger, Balázs - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The theoretical concepts about entrepreneurship have changed since the last three decades. It has become one of the … economy (Audretsch and Thurik 2001), it can be seen clearly those shifts which contributed to become entrepreneurship an … continue their economic activity. The entrepreneurship is influenced by those negative and positive factors (for example other …

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Market Size, Productivity and Entrepreneurship in a Model a'la Melitz

Pokrovsky, Dmitry - European Regional Science Association - 2013

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Regional Transitions from Socialism to Entrepreneurship: Russia and Germany compared

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014

in the process of transition to a market-type economy. In this comparison entrepreneurship in West Germany is used as a … entrepreneurship and determinants of the decision to be self-employed in these two countries and their regions. While a number of …,et al.,2008). There is, however,hardly evidence on the dynamics of entrepreneurship in detail and with comparison to other …

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Starting a rural business in an ageing society, a UK ? NL case study

Delfmann, Heike - European Regional Science Association - 2014

start a social enterprise. A key step in gaining further insights into entrepreneurship in these areas is developing a …

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A Bayesian space-time approach to identifying and interpreting regional convergence clubs in Europe

Fischer, Manfred M.; LeSage, James P. - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This study suggests a two-step approach to identifying and interpreting regional convergence clubs in Europe. The first step calculates Bayesian probabilities for various assignments of regions to two clubs using a general stochastic space-time dynamic panel relationship between growth rates and...

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The Motives for the FDI Location Choice in the `Old' and `New' Europe

Serwicka, Ilona Elzbieta; Jones, Jonathan; Wren, Colin - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper adds to the scarce cross-country evidence on FDI location decisions between the EU-15 Member States and the ten new Members that joined the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007 from the Central and East European Countries (CEECs). To capture the discrete nature of the location choice,...

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FDI and Growth: Can different regional identities shape the returns to foreign capital investments?

Resmini, Laura; Casi, Laura - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Do regional identities determine different levels of FDI-induced growth? This paper analyses the impact of FDI on the growth rates of European regions. In so doing, it discusses the role of different components of territorial capital in magnifying or daunting such an impact. The paper starts...

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