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Innovation support measures in the EU are mostly designed to support product innovation in RD intensive sectors. To increase the still considerable contribution to regional employment and competitiveness from SMEs in traditional manufacturing industries a broader innovation policy mix is more...
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Our world is changing at dizzying speed. Globalisation, technological innovation, and demographic change are creating both new demands and opportunities. The Internet is fascinating and frivolously affecting our work and life. E-governance has become the order of the day. How do we respond? How...
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partner and thus, sometimes, access their technology, their Know-how, brand image, and, of course, less risky forms of …
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efficiency measure adopted naturally takes into account both the absolute changes in the technology indexes and the time delays … technology, and then deal with the problem of selecting a region of excellence in research to take gains of concentration …
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This paper addresses two research questions: How do learning mechanisms operate in different types of global value chains? What is the supporting role of the innovation system in GVC-driven learning and innovation processes? Empirical evidence is used from the authors' research as well as...
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Technology (S&T) policies, usually inspired by the so-called linear model and by neoclassical economics, are frequently …
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firms between 1998 and 2010. This study projects four findings: (i) The capacity growth of the solar photovoltaic technology … are higher for wind technology than for solar technology. Specially, these spillovers induce a higher learning rate for … the wind technology. These findings combine to show disparities in the learning trends in technologies across and within …
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Migrants from rural to urban areas in dvelopong countries are mostly young workers in their teens and twenties. Earlier migration is rational because migration involves investment in human capital. This study particularly addresses learning own ability. When one's own ability is unknown, larger...
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This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
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