Άμεσες ξένες επενδύσεις, διάχυση γνώσης και εργασία στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση

Βαρδαβά, Κυριακή

Foreign direct investments, knowledge spillovers and labor market in the European Union

Master Thesis

Author

Βαρδαβά, Κυριακή

Date

2015-10

Abstract

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. The results of 23 European countries for the period 1985 - 2004, give us indications for the positive and statistically important effects of the GDP of the host country, of the GDP of U.S.A and of the patents of U.S.A, referring to the American investments for Research and Development as well as for important statistics, but negative effect of the factor distance.

Postgraduate Studies Programme

Οικονομική και Επιχειρησιακή Στρατηγική

Department

Σχολή Οικονομικών, Επιχειρηματικών και Διεθνών Σπουδών. Τμήμα Οικονομικής Επιστήμης

Number of pages

124

Language

Greek

URI

https://dione.lib.unipi.gr/xmlui/handle/unipi/8683

Collections

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