The Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills is a framework for strategic cooperation to address short and medium-term skills needs in a given economic sector. This is the second wave of the Blueprint, which focuses on six sectors: additive manufacturing, green technology and renewable energ...
The purpose of this study is to analyse the factors which influence the location of economic activities which are typically concentrated in the Copenhagen region. Although there has been a substantial growth in manufacturing employment in the underdeveloped regions, this development has almost e...
We consider a standard result of customer market theory: if firms have stable customer relations and face financial frictions, they may keep prices relatively high on their locked-in shoppers to maintain short-term profits at the expense of future market shares in times of low demand and vice v...
This report presents the findings of the project ‘The State of University-Business Cooperation in Europe’. The project has been conducted during 2016 and 2017 by a consortium led by the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, Germany for the DG Education and Culture, European Commission. ...
The issue of employee financial participation is the focus of increasing attention across the European Union. There is, moreover, concern at European level that costs and administrative complexities have hampered the large-scale introduction of financial participation schemes. In an effort to mo...
InnovFin Science supports research and innovation (R&I) investments by research institutes, universities and research organisations (public or private), including the financing of buildings and other infrastructure directly related to R&I activity. The product is deployed directly by the EIB in ...
To support countries in reforming their research and innovation systems, the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission set up a Policy Support Facility (PSF) under the European Framework Programme for Research & Innovation ‘Horizon 2020’. It aims to suppor...
Companies devise strategies to successfully navigate the treacherous waters of an uncertain business environment. They need to tackle regulatory or market obstacles in order to succeed and eventually achieve strong growth performance. This study aims to better understand the complex relationship...
The seventh Impact Assessment Workshop of the contractual Public-Private Partnerships (cPPP), held in Brussels on the 17th of May 2017 gathered 185 external participants. A novelty of the 2017 edition was the changed format. In previous years, a separate workshop was held for each cPPP (Factorie...
Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed decisions. If going far beyond this, in particular if successfully influencing policy makers to unnecessarily tighten regulation or not opening already excessively regulated markets, i...
