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Economic growth in an enlarged Europe: the human capital and R&D dimensions

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  • Alberto BUCCI

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Achieving the objective of making the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy is not an easy task, as it requires increasing levels of collaboration between academics and policy-makers. The Sapir Report (2004) represents an important step in this direction, showing how a solid, current-research-based European economic policy can be built. This paper highlights those factors that are potentially able to have a bearing on the private incentives to accumulate human and knowledge capital. It also suggests policies (complementary to the ones recommended in the Sapir Report) that can be put into use in order to accomplish the above-mentioned objective. Finally, the paper draws attention to some open questions (especially those related to the European patent policy), which probably require further reflection by both the economic profession and the policy-makers

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  • Alberto BUCCI, 2004. "Economic growth in an enlarged Europe: the human capital and R&D dimensions," Departmental Working Papers 2004-022, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano.
    • Handle: RePEc:mil:wpdepa:2004-022
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    Keywords

    Economic Growth; Enlarged Europe; Public Policy; Research and Development; Human Capital;
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    JEL classification:

    • E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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