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Basic Research, Openness, and Convergence

Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T.; Schneller, Olivier - 2010

We study a model where economic growth is fueled by public basic-research investment and the importation of leading technology from foreign countries. In each period, the government chooses the amount of basic research, balancing the cost and benefits of stimulating growth through both channels....

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Market forces and the continent's growth problem

2009

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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany

Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998

Umsatzes mit neuen Produkten gemacht. Der Technologietransfer von den öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen wird dabei … dem Stichwort regionale High-Tech-Agglomerationen diskutiert wird, nicht auf den Technologietransfer aus. …

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Innovation and knowledge spillovers in developing countries

Bascavusoglu, Elif - 2007

problems in the innovation process, and highlight the positive role played by international trade in the technology transfer …

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Convergence in GDP per Capita in the Euro Area and the EU at the Time of COVID-19

Licchetta, Mirko; Mattozzi, Giovanni - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 43-51

This paper investigates determinants of convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU between 1995 and 2021. It finds that the COVID-19 crisis temporarily slowed convergence but the estimated negative impact is significantly smaller than during the global financial crisis. Diverging...

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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth

Woerz, Julia - 2004

estimation pointtowards a positive long-run growth effect arising from trade specialization in medium …

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Barriers to technology adoption, international R&D spillovers and growth

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Foster, Neil; Scharler, Johann - 2007

Panel data is used to investigate the extent of R&D spillovers between OECD countries, and the importance of barriers to technology adoption in affecting the benefits of such spillovers. Our results indicate that countries with less regulated goods and labour markets benefit more from foreign R&D.

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The Limiting Distribution of Production in Integrated Economies: Evidence from US States and EU Countries

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2005

We show that in a fully integrated economy, in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each member’s share of total output will equal its shares of total stocks of productive factors (i.e., physical and human capital). We label this result the equal-share relationship. This...

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Global Climate Change, Technology Transfer and Trade with Complete Specialization

Rübbelke, Dirk T.G.; Mukherjee, Vivekananda - 2006

The paper develops a model in which a country with better technology for abatement of Green House Gas (GHG) emission (the North) commits to an international protocol to keep the global GHG emission within a specified limit while it helps the mitigation effort in the other country (the South)...

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Social capital, innovation and growth: evidence from Europe

Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2008

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

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