This thesis aimed to identify concrete ways to develop scientific capacity in the Global South, and in linking those research efforts to national socio-economic objectives....

The digitalisation of business processes has led to the new opportunity of investigating process executions by using process mining. The complex preparation step of building an...

This study investigates the effects of an R&D subsidy scheme on participating firms’ net R&D investment. Making use of a specific policy design in Belgium that...

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm...

This paper examines the relationship between labour productivity growth in non-traditional sectors and "innovation policy" for a cross-section of countries. Innovation policy is...

This paper investigates states’ commitment to human rights, democracy and rule of law through ratifying Council of Europe treaties. We present a first comprehensive analysis of...

Abstract: Winter peaks in Belgian electricity demand are significantly higher than the summer peaks, creating a greater potential for imbalances between demand and supply. This...

This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German...

In practice, environmental policy is only moving slowly from a focus on promoting environmental technologies to a focus on greening socio-technical systems. Policy measures to...

This study builds on the economics and organization literatures to explore whether and how institutions and organizational structure complement or substitute each other to...

Abstract Africa is a continent facing severe, urgent, and often unique health challenges. At the same time, in most African countries, national research funding is very...

This paper combines general definitions of innovation applicable in all economic sectors with a systems approach, to develop a conceptual framework for the statistical...

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We...

The setting up of the science policy research unit (spru) at sussex university 50 years ago represented a “transformative change” in the research on science policy and the...

Background For immobile patients, a body wash in bed is sometimes the only bathing option. Traditionally, the bed bath is performed with water and soap. However, alternatives...

Owoo N. S. and Naudé W. Spatial proximity and firm performance: evidence from non-farm rural enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria, Regional Studies. The productivity of non-farm...

Background There is an increasing recognition that non communicable diseases impose large economic costs on households, societies and nations. However, not much is known about...

This paper investigates the focused information criterion and plug-in average for vector autoregressive models with local-to-zero misspecification. These methods have the...

This study aims to measure the robustness of multi-level models designed for three anthropometric indices – height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-age (WAZ) and weight-for-height...

This paper investigates the factors driving nanotechnology development in Chinese regions. Advanced regions of China have spearheaded the country’s rapid growth in...