The Investment Plan for Europe aims at fostering investment to trigger income and employment growth in a slowly recovering European economy.
But which investments are more likely to mobilise private resources? Two Italian economists, Daniele Archibugi (Italian National Research Council, (CNR) Rome, and University of London, Birkbeck College) and Andrea Filippetti (CNR, London School of Economics), argue that not all public investment has the same multiplying effects and that investing in areas of growing technological opportunities is likely to have greater impact than in traditional sectors. Their recent research explores to what extent the sectoral dimension of investment in innovation affects economic development and employment creation.
Have countries that have been prioritising knowledge intensive activities actually managed to achieve a better economic performance?
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