Growth, innovation and international competitiveness

Pursuing International Competitiveness in Iranian Wheat Policy

After the war with Iraq which ended in 1988, Iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on Five-Year National Development Plans. The main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. This paper investigates the extent to which Iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

Business Taxes and International Competitiveness

Around the world, policymakers are obsessed with the competitiveness of their domestic companies and domestically based multinational corporations (MNCs). Such concerns frequently influence policy, especially tax policy. In this paper, I develop a theory of how taxes affect the international competitiveness of businesses. I then use that theory to evaluate basic tax policy decisions, such as th...

Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Competitiveness and Innovation Policy

on behalf of the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry. INNO makers in adopting appropriate responses to emerging innovation needs, trends and phenomena. It is part of the European Commission's PRO INNO Eur focal point for innovation policy analysis and cooperation. The INNO monitoring (Lot 2) is carried out by empirica GmbH and ICEG European Cent Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köl...

The Chemical Industry: Regulation, Innovation, and Competitiveness

The effect of environmental regulation on innovation by firms and on competitiveness by countries has been a source of theorizing and debate for more than half a century. In particular, the chemical industry, which arose in Europe and the US at the end of the 19 century together with the second industrial revolution, has been accused of causing numerous large-scale accidents, which have had sig...

Balancing Between Competitiveness and Cohesion in Innovation