Notably, Africa countries have enjoyed relatively strong economic growth for the past years (decade) mainly because of impressive global demand for primary commodities. Unfortunately, Africa’s economic growth had failed to generate many good jobs and thus postponing the benefits of the...

Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) have extended the Solow (1956) model by augmenting the production function with human capital. Its empirical success is impressive and it showed a procedure to improve the explanatory power of the neoclassical growth model. This paper suggests an empirical procedure...

This paper empirically analyzes whether a prominent place-based innovation policy, the institution of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), has affected the treated region innovative capacity. By relying on the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) approach and Italian NUTS-3 regional panel data,...

This article will describe the transformation of higher education which is undergoing an expanded mission to include economic and social development as well as competence, cultural reproduction, and research and the shift from the individual to the organizational focus. In this case, the triple...

In the quest for the attainment of democracy with its fully unleashed potentials, the role of information and communication technology (ICT) is integral within this current knowledge economy disposition. The study explores the effect of mobile technology penetration on governance quality from...

This paper leverages on the establishment of Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) as a policy change useful to understand the causal effect of public funded research centres on the regional innovative capacity. By relying on the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) approach and Italian NUTS-3 panel...

An influential literature in early modern economic history uses “distance from” as an instrumental or a control variable. I show that “distance from Wittenberg” and “distance from Mainz,” two prominent instruments for the adoption of Protestantism and printing technology, have...

This paper tests a strand of Schumpeterian growth theory that predicts a role for income inequality as a determinant of technology-enhancing activities, in the shape of innovation in the North and of technology transfers in the South. The analysis is conducted at three different levels: by world...

Resurgent India is a multi – dimensional concept. Economic interpretation is just one aspect of its multi – dimensionality. This paper seeks to analyze the concept of resurgence in the context of India’s economic growth and try to understand the source thereof.

Resurgent India is a multi – dimensional concept. Economic interpretation is just one aspect of its multi – dimensionality. This paper seeks to analyze the concept of resurgence in the context of India’s economic growth and try to understand the source thereof.