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Innovation And The Economy, Mario Pianta, J. Michie, C. Oughton Jun 2002

Innovation And The Economy, Mario Pianta, J. Michie, C. Oughton

Mario Pianta

Unemployment has remained at relatively high levels across most European countries for a generation now. There have been a number of suggested explanations for this, with correspondingly different policy implications. Two of the major hypotheses relate, first, to the impact on the European economies from increased international competition, and `globalisation’ more generally, and, secondly, to the effects of new technology and innovation. The effects of both globalisation and technology on growth and employment in Europe have been researched over the past two years through an EU-funded project, the results of which, relating in particular to innovation, are reported in this …


Profitable Portale Durch Prozessorientierte Content- Und Kanalintegration - Beispiel Telekomunikation, Hubert Oesterle Dec 2001

Profitable Portale Durch Prozessorientierte Content- Und Kanalintegration - Beispiel Telekomunikation, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Employment Effects Of Product And Process Innovations In Europe, Mario Pianta, Tommaso Antonucci Dec 2001

Employment Effects Of Product And Process Innovations In Europe, Mario Pianta, Tommaso Antonucci

Mario Pianta

This paper develops a model of the employment impact of innovation considering, on the one hand, the interactions with demand and labour costs and, on the other, the variety of patterns of technological change. Different technological strategies are considered. First, a search for technological competitiveness is based on product innovation and productivity rooted in quality advantages; second a strategy of active price competitiveness has productivity growth rooted in process innovation-based restructuring; third a passive price competitiveness strategy is pursued by noninnovators relying on cost-cutting. The new European innovation database drawn from the Community Innovation Survey 1994-96, merged with structural and …


Betriebliche Anwendungen Mobiler Technologien: Ubiquitous Commerce, Elgar Fleisch, Friedemann Mattern, Hubert Oesterle Dec 2001

Betriebliche Anwendungen Mobiler Technologien: Ubiquitous Commerce, Elgar Fleisch, Friedemann Mattern, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.