Policy Brief 2008/03
Europe's R&D: Missing the Wrong
Targets?
This Policy Brief address two challenges: First, Europe is failing to live up
to the target set in the Lisbon agenda to increase public and private-funded
investment in R&D to 3 percent of GDP. Can Europe catch up? Second, since
countries have different industrial specialisations, do targets for business
funded R&D investment make any economic sense?
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THE
AUTHOR
Bruno van
Pottelsberghe [meet Bruno]
POLICY BRIEFS
A Tail of Two Countries[read it]
Europe's R&D: Missing the Wrong
Targets?[read it]
Is Structural Spending on Solid
Foundations?[read it]
Financing Europe's Fast Movers[read it]
Why Europe is not Carbon
Competitive[read it]
Why Reform Europe's Universities?[read it]
Is Europe Ready for a Major Banking
Crisis?[read
it]
Global Imbalances: Time for Action[read it]
A Better Globalisation Fund[read it]
Global Governance: An Agenda for
Europe[read
it]
A Primer on Innovation and Growth[read it]
Single Market Trails Home Bias[read it]
Farewell National Champions[read it]
Welcome to Europe[read it]
Last Exit to Lisbon[read it]
The Euro: Only for the Agile[read it]
Global Current Account Imbalances: How to
Manage the Risk for Europe[read it]
Globalisation and the Reform of European
Social Models[read
it]
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