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Taking stock
Fasil, Cristiana Benedetti; Sanchez-Martinez, Miguel; … - In: Macroeconomic modelling of R&D and innovation policies, (pp. 155-162). 2022
This Chapter presents the EU policy context that underlies the need for macroeconomic modelling for the conduct of …
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Education or creativity : what matters most for economic performance?
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2011
regions of EU27. Our main results indicate that the highly educated creative group is the most relevant one in explaining …
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Internationalization of European mobile telecommunication operators : institutional diversity and performance implications
Asimakopoulos, Grigorios; Hernández, Virginia; … - 2015
Internationalisation plays a key role in the strategy of many firms, with one of the key benefits being improved performance. Since the early 1990s, internationalisation has played a central role within the mobile telecommunications industry, giving rise to multinational enterprises operating in...
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Factors influencing modal split of commuting journeys in 34 medium-sized European cities
Brunn, Thomas von; Santos, Georgina - 2011
The paper attempts to identify factors that influence modal split for journeys to work in cities with populations of between 100 thousand and 500 thousand in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK. The sample consisted of 34 cities. The analysis revealed a significant negative...
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Creative-based strategies in small and medium-sized cities : some European study cases.
Selada, Catarina; Cunha, Inês Vilhena da; Tomaz, Elisabete - 2011
During the last decades, creative and cultural approaches have been implemented in regional and urban development strategies as key drivers for competitiveness and growth. However, research literature tends to focus mainly in big cities and metropolis, not recognizing the potential of small...
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Creative class as a determinant of economic development : empirical considerations for North Rhine-Westphalian regions based on time series analysis : paper presented on the 51st E...
Hamm, Rüdiger - 2011
Since some years Richard Florida's ideas on the creative class have attracted a great deal of theoretical and empirical attention. One part of his theory says that the "creative class" - people with highly creative and innovative abilities - are the driving force of regional economic...
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Defining the quality of urban life : which factors should be considered? : European Regional Science Association, 51st European Congress, Barcelona, Spain
Psatha, Eva; Deffner, Alex; Psycharis, Yannis - 2011
studies and papers concerning the evaluation of QOUL in different cities, the factors taken into account are far from being … measurement of the QOUL in the evaluation of cities and the city rankings are also examined. Finally, a range of factors which can …
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The location behavior of call center firms in Turkey : 51th Congress of the European Regional Science Association "New Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globalis...
Seçkin, Ebru - 2011
Advances in information and communication technologies bring along changes in working and employment conditions. Automationed work is moved to distant areas and businesses get elaborate, far from the center and network-based. Another change similar to the disintegration of production process is...
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Relationships between Social Capital and regional development in Europe : a close examination
Rizzi, Paolo; Pianta, Roberta - 2011
The study of the Social Capital and its relationships with the development is a topical subject. The theme has not an exactly definition yet. Some proofs at national and regional levels in Europe show interactions between the Social Capital and the economic growth and the labour market. From...
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Spatial mobility and location choices of highly skilled workers : European Regional Science Association Conference, August-September, 2011, Barcelona
Miguélez, Ernest; Moreno, Rosina - 2011 - Very preliminary version, First draft: February 2010, This draft: March 2011
The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the determinants of geographical mobility and location choices of skilled individuals across the European regions. The most talented workers, e.g. inventors, move for a number of reasons, contributing in this manner to the geographical diffusion...
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