Innovation intensity and skills in firms across five European countries

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Colonic microbiota signatures across five northern European countries.

The composition of the colonic microbiota of 91 northern Europeans was characterized by fluorescent in situ hybridization using 18 phylogenetic probes. On average 75% of the bacteria were identified, and large interindividual variations were observed. Clostridium coccoides and Clostridium leptum were the dominant groups (28.0% and 25.2%), followed by the Bacteroides (8.5%). According to princip...

Comparing the Innovation Performance of Canadian Firms and those of Selected European Countries: An Econometric Analysis

Eco-innovation of enterprises operating in Poland against the background of European Union countries

Eco-innovation is any innovation that leads to sustainable development by limiting the negative impact of production activities on the environment, increasing the resilience of nature to loads or ensuring greater efficiency and responsibility in the use of natural resources. Eco-innovations are the opportunity for enterprises. Their introduction contributes to reducing the costs of doing busine...

The Organization of Firms across Countries

We collect original data on the firm organization in several thousand firms located in the US, Europe and Asia. Specifically, we focus on the autonomy of production plant managers from their Corporate Headquarters in their decisions over hiring, investment, production and sales. We find that American and Northern European firms are much more decentralized than those from Southern Europe and Asi...