Knowledge investments, business R&D and innovativeness of countries: A qualitative meta-analytic comparison

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-384

  van Hemert, Patricia ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Evolutionary economic geography; Human capital; Innovation; R D; Rough set analysis; Social cohesion

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CAUSAL MODEL; COMPLEX DYNAMICS; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; ECONOMIC POLICIES; EUROPEAN UNION; EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS; HUMAN CAPITALS; INNOVATION INITIATIVES; INNOVATION SYSTEM; INNOVATIVENESS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT; INTERNATIONAL ARENA; KEY FACTORS; KNOWLEDGE CREATION PROCESS; KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY; MEMBER STATE; NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS; POLICY INTERVENTION; QUANTITATIVE EQUILIBRIUM; ROUGH SET ANALYSIS; SOCIAL COHESION; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; STRATEGIC ORIENTATION;

ADHESION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPETITION; COMPLEXATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; INNOVATION; INVESTMENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPETITIVENESS; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN CAPITAL; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; META-ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 75949085256     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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