Although systems of innovation approach is gaining popularity among researchers and policy-makers, it is still rather difficult to apply this approach to specific policy settings and designs, because the approach is too general and does not provide many direct suggestions for building up an...

This article outlines the main directions of the development of national innovation systems in the new EU member states as catch-up economies emerging from a period of systemic change. Attempts simply to copy the experience of the high-income economies in building national innovation systems are...

This paper aims to assess the economic development and development policies in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in 1990-2005, from the collapse of the USSR to the enlargement of the European Union. A great number of authors have generally seen the transition as a very positive...

Im Mittelpunkt dieses Beitrages steht ein besonderer Aspekt in der Diagnose der gegenwärtigen Krise, ihrer Ursachen sowie der bisherigen Lösungsversuche, nämlich die zu beobachtende Priorität des kurzfristigen Denkens in Politik und Wirtschaft. Diese myopische Perspektive, deren moderne...

The present study is a follow up to a previous paper by the same authors that aimed to systematize the similarities and differences of the economic structures of the countries of the European Union. This errand has been expanded to include the countries of the OECD. The starting point of the...

The paper presents a decomposition of productivity gap between South-Korea and Estonia for the year 2006. After presenting stylised facts related to income conver-gence, we apply shift-share analysis to explain the patterns of structural disparities both at aggregated sectoral level and within...

The purpose of the paper is to find out whether linkages between productivity and innovation are different among Estonian service sector sub-sectors. In this paper productivity is measured as value added per employee. An original approach toward measurement of productivity is used, decomposing...

Offensichtlich stellt die Klimaschutzproblematik eines der großen Politikfelder unserer Zeit dar. Ursächlich für den Anstieg der globalen Durchschnittstemperatur ist laut Klimaexperten ein anthropogener Anstieg der Treibhausgaskonzentration in der Atmosphäre. Die globale Klimaerwärmung...

Der CO2-Ausstoß betrug 2008 weltweit über 30 Milliarden Tonnen, davon gingen alleine in Deutschland über 100 Millionen Tonnen auf schlecht gedämmte Wohngebäude zurück. Hinzu kommen enorme Energiekosten für die Besitzer der ungedämmten Immobilien. Dämmung hat daher nicht nur einen...