Έρευνα και διάχυση γνώσης στην Ευρώπη.
Research and knowledge spillovers in Europe
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Διαχείριση γνώσης ; Knowledge management ; Ευρώπη ; Έρευνα ; ΑνάπτυξηAbstract
Nowadays, more than ever, many countries rely on the creation, dissemination and
exploitation of scientific and technological knowledge, as a means of betterment
(improvement) of economic growth and productivity. In the knowledge economy and in the
knowledge society, investing in Research and Development is an option of high priority.
Expenditures in Research and Development, as a factor of economic development, express
one country’s effort to create knowledge to spread it and as a result to exploit it economically.
One of the basic policies of European Union for the improvement of competitiveness is the
investment in Research and Development. Therefore, the financing of it, is considered as a
prerequisite for the promotion of innovation, growth of the economic performance of
countries and the greater improvement of living standards.
Numerous studies have been done relating to the Research and Development. A major part of
bibliography has to do with the influence of the investments in Research and Development to
the economic development of a country as well as with the increase in competitiveness. Other
studies have focused to the diffusion of knowledge and technology that can be created by the
Research and Development.
The present study was done, having, as main target to examine, how certain factors, as the
GDP of the host country, the GDP of U.S.A., the population density, the employment in the
Industry, the employment in Services, the exporting activity, the importing activity, the cost
of transactions, the distance, the patents in U.S.A., the patents in E.U., the tendency and the
Index “Beri”, which measures the risk for one country’s companies, define the American
Investments, in Research and Development, in European Countries where they are addressed
to.