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Towards a new growth model in CESEE : convergence and competitiveness through smart, green and inclusive investment

Gereben, Áron; Wruuck, Patricia - 2021

This paper focuses on the growth and convergence of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE). We argue that the factors behind the pre-crisis growth model of the region - skilled yet affordable labour force, foreign direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing...

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New insights on EU-US comparison of corporate R&D

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro - 2010

the US in corporate R&D performance, especially in the following three main aspects: (i) dynamics of the economic … structures and the cause of the R&D intensity gap; (ii) R&D performance and company demographics and (iii) financial availability …

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Young leading innovators and EU's R&D intensity gap

Cincera, Michele; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2010

Innovation in the European Union remains weak according to a number of key "input" indicators, especially R&D investment by the business sector, and there are relatively few signs of progress. From a firm-level perspective, Europe's innovation gap relative to the US results from an inappropriate...

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Intangible resources : the relevance of training for European firms' innovative performance

Ciriaci, Daria - 2011

This paper assesses whether European firms' innovative performance is impacted by investments in training directly …

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Absorptive capacity, innovation cooperation and human-capital : evidence from 3 European countries

Franco, Chiara; Marzucchi, Alberto; Montresor, Sandro - 2012

The paper aims at extending the analysis of the firm's absorptive capacity (AC) by taking stock of its manifold nature. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending on the kind of partner. Human capital is claimed...

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Multinationality, R&D and productivity evidence from the top R&D investors worldwide

Castellani, Davide; Montresor, Sandro; Schubert, Torben; … - 2015

The paper investigates the impact that the multinational scope of firms' activities can have on their productivity. First, we argue that such an impact is both direct and indirect, and that the latter is channelled through higher incentives to invest in R&D. Second, we posit that the composition...

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EU corporate R&D intensity gap : what has changed over the last decade?

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro - 2016

This paper contributes with new findings to the literature on corporate research and development (R&D) intensity decomposition by examining the effects of several parameters on R&D intensity and investigating its comparative distribution among top R&D firms, sectors and world regions/countries....

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Design, innovation and performance in European firms

Montresor, Sandro; Vezzani, Antonio - 2017

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … of introducing product/process innovations, but that the ensuing economic performance is rather associated to the role of … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

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