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Investigating the Impact of the Innovation Union (I3U)
Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,
Innovation has been placed at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy aimed at facing major structural changes, the increase of global competition and the current crisis, and to tackle major societal challenges such as climate change, energy and resource scarcity, health and ageing. The Innovation Union has the main objective to strengthen the European innovative potential, and sets 13 general objec ...
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Productivity, Non-Tariff Measures and Openness (PRONTO)
Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,
The latter half of the 20th century saw a successful international effort to reduce tariffs. These achievements, however, were undone by the subsequent proliferation of non-tariff measures (NTMs) to limit international trade and investment. These measures take a variety of forms and include safety regulations, environmental standards, and corporate tax incentives, all of which influence both trade ...
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Smart Public Intangibles (SPINTAN)
Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,
The SPINTAN project aims at discovering the theoretical and empirical underpins of public intangible policies. It widens previous work carried out by Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005, 2009) including the public sector in their analytical framework in different complementary directions that can be summarized in the following three objectives: (1) to build a public intangible database for a wide set ...
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Growth-Innovation-Competitiveness: Fostering Cohesion in Central and Eastern Europe (GRINCOH)
Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,
GRINCOH addresses two issues affecting Central and Eastern European economies: the disjuncture between fast productivity growth and poor performance in developing innovative capacities for longer-term sustainable growth; and the pronounced economic, social and environmental territorial disparities resulting from accelerated growth. The project objectives are to: (a) establish development scenarios ...
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Impacts Quantification of global changes (Global-IQ)
Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,
World societies experience today large transformation processes both in the social, economic and environmental dimensions. These transformations are usually described under the heading of ‘global change’, to emphasize the increasing interactions between them. The objective of the proposal is three-fold: (1) to provide significant advances in the estimation of socio-economic impacts of global chall ...
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Challenges for Europe in the world of 2030 (AUGUR)
Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2013,
Our challenge is to capture, within a set of scenarios, the characteristics and implications of a variety of patterns that may occur in 2030 in all domains, be it political, economic, social, environmental or technological in Europe and in the world. The project wants to take stock of long term trends identified in demography, environmental changes as well as to feature some of the effects of like ...
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"Globalization, Investment, and Services Trade" (GIST)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,
"Services are currently of great interest and importance to both policy-makers and businesses in Europe, and are a major factor in maintaining European growth and competitiveness over the coming decades. Previously, data relating to the interactions between trade flows, regulatory regimes and the European political economy has been inconsistent and fragmented. Now, thanks to the efforts of the EC, ...
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World Input-Output Database: Construction and Applications (WIOD)
Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,
How has the increase in Chinese exports of textile products affected the employment of low skilled workers in German retail trade? What would be the effects of a change in the European Union’s agricultural policy on global CO2 emissions? Economic and environmental policies are designed at a detailed level of industries and products, while production is characterized by an interdependent structure. ...
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