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The regional significance of university locations in Lower Saxony
Stöver, Britta - 2019
-side contributions of the university locations within Lower-Saxony using a combination of multiplier analysis and spatial econometrics on … or a selected university location but gives a complete picture of the importance and significance of all university … results give a complete and reproducible impression of the importance and significance of the different university locations …
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The contribution of universities to growth : empirical evidence for Italy
Carree, Martin Anthony; Della Malva, Antonio; … - 2011 - Version: October 21, 2011
New entrepreneurial ventures may represent a viable and effective mechanism to transform academic knowledge into regional economic growth. We test this notion for the Italian provinces between 2001 and 2006. We evaluate three outputs of academic activities: teaching, research and Intellectual...
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Enhancing skills to boost growth in Hungary
Machlica, Gabriel - 2017
Skill requirements in the labour market have significantly changed over the past two decades. The restructuring of the economy is making the labour market increasingly knowledge-based. The education system has reacted to this structural change, but as the pace has been relatively slow, many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700145
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Regional Growth in a Dual Economy : Marshall-Arrow-Romer Externalities and Firm-Ownership in Hungary
Lengyel, Balázs - 2013
Using census-type data of Hungarian firms, we test the Marshall-Arrow-Romer (MAR) hypothesis on the impact of agglomeration economies on regional economic growth. The results suggest that MAR type of local knowledge externalities have a significant positive impact on TFP growth. However, initial...
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Estimating the long-term economic impacts of the Spanish universities on the national economy
Pastor, José Manuel; Peraita, Carlos; Pérez García, … - 2015
their local economy. Taking as a case study the Spanish University System, it proposes a methodology for estimating the … effects of university activity on the Spanish economy in terms of its contribution to the increase of human capital, of …
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Can the university save Europe?
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012
Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...
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Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility
Bautista, Maria Angelica; González, Felipe; Martinez, … - 2021
Pinochet. After democratization, children with a parent in the affected cohorts are also less likely to enroll in university …
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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024
We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction...
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More publicly funded research, more knowledge spillovers, more economic growth? : an empirical analysis for German regions
Eberle, Jonathan; Brenner, Thomas; Mitze, Timo - 2018
differentiating between public research activities conducted by universities, technical colleges (Fachhochschulen) and non-university … between the publication rate of non-university research institutes and regional investment and employment rates. Furthermore …
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The Brazilian regional development funds and economic growth : a spatial panel approach
Cravo, Túlio A.; Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2015
The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...
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