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Travel motivations of seniors : a review and a meta-analytical assessment

Patuelli, Roberto; Nijkamp, Peter - 2015 - This version: 05/08/2015

Over the past decades, leisure travel has become increasingly popular in older segments of the world population, as a consequence of global factors such as a rise in life expectancy, improved health conditions, a higher disposable income, and increased availability of discretionary time in...

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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation - is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?

Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - 2013

, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by conducting an Exploratory Space-Time Data Analysis (ESTDA). Beside … variables. Overall, we find strong clustering tendencies for the demographic variables and innovation that constitute a great … among regions that may further reinforce the observed innovation divide in the future. …

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Does the support of innovative clusters sustainably Foster R&D activity? : evidence from the German BioRegio and BioProfile contests

Engel, Dirk; Mitze, Timo; Patuelli, Roberto; … - 2011 - This version: January 2011

In this paper, we evaluate the R&D enhancing effects of two large public grant schemes aiming at encouraging the performance of firms organized in clusters. These are Germany’s well known BioRegio and BioProfile contests for which we compare the research performance of winning regions in...

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Self-financing of traditional and R&D investments : evidence from Italian SMEs

Brighi, Paola; Patuelli, Roberto; Torluccio, Giuseppe - 2012

Self-financing has often been seen as an important source for research-and-development (R&D) funding. However, an in-depth comparison between the determinants of self-financing in the case of traditional investments versus those in R&D has not been provided yet. We use a comprehensive data set...

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