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This report provides evidence on the inventive output of ICT R&D activity in the EU, the US and other regions and proposes an economic modelling framework for analysing the impact of the R&D processes. It uses patent statistics as a measure of output of the R&D process. According to the...
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Understanding and estimating the impact of fiscal incentives on innovation are crucial elements for policy evaluation …. This is so because innovation- be it of the product or the process type- is able to move the production frontier and hence … that innovation is the final goal of public policy, most studies look at the relationship between R&D expenses and fiscal …
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The globalisation of R&D activities has continued to grow as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has brought researchers and analysts to...
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This report presents the methodological set-up for the SIMPHS3 study, whose overall objective is the analysis of how Health Information Technologies (HIT) may facilitate integration in the provision of health and social care services in specific European regions and settings. To this end a...
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The 2013 "EU Industrial R&D Scoreboard" (the Scoreboard) contains economic and financial data of the world's top 2000 companies ranked by their investments in research and development (R&D). The sample contains 527 companies based in the EU and 1474 companies based elsewhere. The Scoreboard data...
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R&D intensity indicators are increasingly used not only for international comparisons, but also as targets for policies stimulating research. The two are of course intimately linked: it makes little sense to set a quantitative policy target when not knowing whether it is high or low compared to...
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The formulation of a macroeconomic model applied to the analysis of EU Research and Development (R&D) funding strategies in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) under the PREDICT 2 project stipulates a specification of the transmission mechanism of R&D funding policy on firms' R&D...
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The objective of the study is to document the existence of innovation gaps between the EU and its main competitors in … government policies in Europe’s future needs for innovation in information and communication technologies (ICT) through a … comparison with the USA and Asian countries. Our analysis shows that rather than there being a simple innovation gap with the EU …
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This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the … technological characteristics a firm has. In general, internal R&D leads to product innovation, while machinery acquisition leads to …
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of technological competitiveness (based on innovation in products and markets) or cost competitiveness (relying on … innovation in processes and machinery) and their impact on economic performances. We propose models for the determinants of … Pavitt classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out …
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