Technological learning within national innovation systems (NIS) stands at the core of
technological upgrading at the firm and economy level. The common understanding is that …

This essay is an interpretative survey that explores the post-socialist transformation in
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (EE&fSU) from a neo-Schumpeterian …

Motivation: The structural model proposed by Crepon, Duguet, and Mairesse (the CDM
model) in 1998 has been the workhorse of the empirical analysis of the relationship between …

The recent COVID-19 crisis, as well as the resulting international response, have
demonstrated the importance of medical innovation in meeting current and future health …

This article aims to reassess a stylized fact, increasingly well-established in the Comparative
Political Economy scholarship, that Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) economies exhibit …

We construct a simple model of a small, open economy with two macroeconomic variables
of interest, namely, wage and employment dynamics and two institutions, namely …

ABSTRACT Central and East European countries are “dependent market economies,”
aiming to escape the “middle income trap.” Develo** R&D is one of the potential solutions …

Countries and regions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have gone through several
challenges. They went through totalitarian and authoritarian communist regimes, gained …

Motivation: The structural model proposed by Crepon, Duguet, and Mairesse (the CDM
model) in 1998 has been the workhorse of the empirical analysis of the relationship be …

The offshoring-fuelled growth of the Central and Eastern European business services sector
gave rise to shared service centres (SSCs), quasi-autonomous entities providing routine …