Regional Linkages Through European Research Funding1

Regional Linkages through European Research Funding 1

We use cluster analysis to describe the regional linkages that arise through funding of research contract networks in the EU. We nd ve signi cantly di erent kinds of networks, that we label as follows: 1) Technological development, 2) Basic research, 3) Quasi-elite, 4) Elite and 5) Southern. These networks are described in terms of three basic dimensions: quality, type of partners, and size com...

European Innovation Policy through the European Regional Development Fund

Policy Linkages Through Trade

The previous chapter has presented a brief picture of world agriculture from an international perspective. Decisions on policy are taken generally at a national level, but nations are cennected internationally by trade. This both constrains and enlarges the scope for national action. In this chapter we begin to develop an analytical framework for looking at intercountry interdependence. The foc...

Landscape linkages and biodiversity in European landscapes

Linear features are structuring landscape elements. We change our landscapes and rebuild them into new linkages, and landscapes are even constructed around these linkages. Landscape linkages are important for species migration and dispersal on a large scale and a small scale: storks, bats and badgers. There is, however also diversity within landscapes and landscape elements: plants species, ins...

Growth Through Intersectoral Knowledge Linkages

The majority of innovations are developed by multi-technology (or multi-sector) firms. The knowledge needed to invent new products is more easily adapted from some sectors than from others. Here, we study this network of knowledge linkages between sectors and its impact on firm innovation and aggregate growth. We develop a general equilibrium model of multi-sector firm innovation in which inter...