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European Global Transition Network on Eco-Innovation, Green Economy and Sustainable Development (green.eu)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

In the last two decades the world has experienced several crises. In light of these trends and to more effectively move towards sustainable development, several organisations and international actors have developed the concept of green economy as action-oriented approaches. Priority interventions are aimed at triggering technology adoption, and stimulate behavioural change. In fact, eco-innovation ...
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Modelling and evaluating the socio-economic impacts of research and innovation with the suite of macro- and regional-economic models (MONROE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

MONROE aims at developing a modelling toolkit that would allow a broad range of stakeholders such as European and national governments, academia, regional and local bodies to quantitatively evaluate the impacts of their specific R&I policies and programmes. The toolkit will assess medium and long-term impacts of R&I policies and programmes on economic growth, job creation, competitiveness, social ...
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Coordination and Assessment of Research and Innovation in Support of Climate Mitigation Actions (CARISMA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

The CARISMA project has two overall objectives. First, through effective stakeholder consultation and communication leading to improved coordination and assessment of climate change mitigation options, it aims to benefit research and innovation efficiency as well as international cooperation on research and innovation and technology transfer. Second, it seeks to assess policy and governance questi ...
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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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Step by step commitments for energy saving (STEP_BY_STEP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

At present, energy conservation campaigns provide households with a general awareness but do not provoke large scale behavior changes.The main goal of the STEP_BY_STEP is to maximize the number of households in a given area that significantly change their behaviour at home. Desired behaviour change includes reduced electricity consumption and the investment in energy efficient products and/or high ...
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Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance: Expectations, Constraints and Interaction of Agents (FINMAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The ability of financial markets to bear risk is central to economic welfare and stability. Growth and economic wellbeing is inhibited if financial markets are unable to transfer resources efficiently from the suppliers of liquidity to entrepreneurs. However, this proper functioning of financial markets has been distorted by levels of volatility considerably in excess of those implied by fundament ...
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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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Creativity for Innovation & Growth in Europe (CRE8TV.EU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Creativity is a fundamental transformative mechanism of the European economy. To study this mechanism, this project brings together 11 of Europe’s leading innovation research centres, and is structured around six themes: 1. Mapping and measuring the creative-cultural industries and their impacts; 2. Understanding and modelling creativity and design; 3. Entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics in ...
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Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe (WWWFOREUROPE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"The objective of this 4-year project is to provide the analytical basis for a socio-ecological transition in Europe: the change to a new growth path with smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as is envisaged in the EU 2020 strategy. In order to support the transition, we analyse the need, the feasibility and best practice for change, specifying the institutional changes needed at all policy lev ...
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Economic iNsTRuments to Achieve Climate Targets in Europe (ENTRACTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The ENTRACTE research project assesses the EU’s climate policy portfolio. While the EU ETS is key to promote the transition towards a low-carbon economy, ambitious GHG emissions reductions will be reached only if this scheme is improved and supported by complementary policies. A carefully considered policy design has to take into account existing market failures other than the climate externality, ...
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European Framework for Measuring Progress (e-Frame)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Within the framework of the Work Programme 2011 on Socio-economic Science and Humanities e-Frame project builds on the latest political directions of the European Commission, in particular the priorities identified in the Europe 2020 strategy. The project will focus on the following general objectives: stocktaking of available results and of ongoing research activities on progress measurement; fos ...
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Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability Expertise (LIAISE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Existing research points out that the full potential of Impact Assessment (IA) for delivering sustainable development is not being realised. Many tools to support IA are not yet being fully employed by policy makers. This is symptomatic of a large and deep gap between the two broad communities of IA researchers and IA practitioners. Practitioners tend to look for tools that are simple and transpar ...
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Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR (IMPACT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) assumes greater practical significance and political relevance in the EU. A central concern is the extent to which CSR delivers benefits for economies, societies and the environment, providing a business contribution to the EU’s policies for growth, competitiveness, better jobs (Lisbon Strategy) and sustainable development (Gothenburg strategy). By contrast th ...
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Prospective Analysis for the Mediterranean Region (MEDPRO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"In response to SSH-2009 – 7.1.2, the MEDPRO project will undertake a deep foresight analysis of the development issues in eleven countries in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean participating in the Barcelona process and in the Union for the Mediterranean. The project will undertake an analysis of the current state and prospective development in main areas of socio-economic development: Geopol ...
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The Impact of Service Sector Innovation and Internationalisation on Growth and Productivity (SERVICEGAP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

The primary objective of this research project is to produce a comprehensive study on the impact of market services on aggregate economic growth in the EU and its comparative performance relative to competitor regions, especially the US. The research is divided into three areas: Productivity and its drivers in service industries; Firm strategies in the knowledge-based economy and Internationalisat ...
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Indicators for evaluating international performance in service sectors (INDICSER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"The objective of the INDICSER project is to develop indicators which provide information on the performance of service sectors in the EU. At the heart of the project are concerns that such indicators should be valid in terms of concepts, measurement methods and feasibility but should also have value in terms of their usefulness for policy. Therefore the approach adopted is to include both an EU-w ...
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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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Spatial-economic-ecological model for the assessment of sustainability policies of Russia (SUST-RUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"The objective of the study is to develop and implement for Russia an integrated spatial-economic-ecological modelling approach, which represents the state-of-the-art in different areas of economic, transport, resource-use and environmental modelling, and can be used to assist policy makers in their choice of medium and long-term sustainability policies. This implies the following interrelated a ...
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INtegrating MainSTREAM Economic Indicators with those of Sustainable Development (IN-STREAM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"Though mainstream economic measures such as GDP are useful measures with great influence on both public and private decisions, they are flawed as measures of human welfare. In addition, they give little information as to whether the market is helping Europe make progress on its environmental goals and its commitment to sustainable development. There is a critical need in Europe for indicators and ...
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"Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures in Europe : Impact on innovation, employment growth, and competitiveness" (VICO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"The aim of the VICO project is to assess the impact of Venture Capital and Private Equity (VC/PE) financing on the economic performance of European innovative entrepreneurial ventures as they are reflected by their innovation output, employment, growth, and competitiveness, and the role VC/PE investors play in helping these firms bridge their resource and competence gap beyond the provision of fi ...
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Full Costs of Climate Change (ClimateCost)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

There is increasing interest in the economics of climate change to inform policy on a) long-term targets, b) the costs of inaction (the economic effects of climate change), and c) the costs and benefits of adaptation. The objectives of this study are to advance knowledge across all three areas, i.e. the full economic costs of climate change, through the following tasks: 1. To identify and develop ...
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"Competitiveness, Innovation and Intangible Investment in Europe" (COINVEST)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"We aim to understand the contributions of intangible investments to innovation, competitiveness, growth and productivity in Europe. Such a project is, we feel, vital to help EU policy formation and deepen our understanding of some of the most crucial questions facing EU economic policy. The reason is simple. Currently, (almost all) intangible investments are either not measured, or treated as an ...
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