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The Role of Knowledge Intensive Business Services on Romania’s Economic Revival and Modernization at the Regional Level

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  • Cristian Busu

    (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 6 Piata Romana, 1st district, 010374 Bucharest, Romania)

  • Mihail Busu

    (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 6 Piata Romana, 1st district, 010374 Bucharest, Romania)

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Knowledge intensive business services have recently become one of the most important themes addressed by researchers in the field. Their interest in such a subject is due primarily to the impact they have in terms of growth rate, especially for the economies of emerging countries. The literature in the field brings a series of persuasive arguments about the role that these services have both at national and regional levels. In this paper, the authors make a radiography of the Romanian research system which is passing through a transition phase from the ruins of communism to the challenges of globalization. Moreover, the authors analyse the role of performance-based services in Romania’s regional development in correlation with the economic growth target at the national scale. Quantitative methods used during the present paper highlight the disparities between Romania’s geographic regions in terms of technological development and research. In addition, the econometric model developed in the study emphasizes the cohesion degree corresponding to the European Union Member States.

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  • Cristian Busu & Mihail Busu, 2017. "The Role of Knowledge Intensive Business Services on Romania’s Economic Revival and Modernization at the Regional Level," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-15, March.
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