GROWINPRO participated at the event organised by Forum on Inequality and Diversity aimed at presenting a set of policy tools to tackle the challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis On December 13, 2020 GROWINPRO’s principal investigator, Andrea Roventini, participated at a policy debate within the final session of the “OpenForum DD”. Open Forum DD was […]
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Working from home and the explosion of enduring divides: income, employment and safety risks
Why are there so many non-teleworkable occupations? Is teleworking only a matter of ICT usage or does it also reflect the division of labour and the underlying hierarchical layers inside organizations? What does it happen to those workers not able to telework in terms of socio-economic risks, and how does the gender dimension interact with […]
Value creation and distribution in the digital era
The first GROWINPRO annual conference, jointly organised with the OECD, will be held online on January 27/28, 2021. Among the participants, the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz “Value creation and distribution in the digital era” is the theme at the core of the GROWINPRO’s first annual conference, to be held online on January 27/28, 2021. […]
The socio-economic consequences of the pandemic, a GROWINPRO conference
The event, held on December 2, 2020, presented the latest research outputs developed by the consortium developing analyses and policy guidelines to tackle the Covid-19 crisis On 2nd December 2020 GROWINPRO project organised a major conference dedicated to the analyses of the socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and to the policy tools that governments […]
The private spillovers of mission-oriented R&D programs
A new GROWINPRO study shows that mission-oriented funding of research and development strongly crowds-in privately financed R&D at the macro-regional level and fosters employment in high-tech sectors The paper, Does mission-oriented funding stimulate private R&D? Evidence from military R&D for US states, focuses on defense-related R&D funded by the US government as a relevant example […]
The macroeconomic modelling of research and innovation
GROWINPRO participates to the conference organised by the Directorate General of Research and Innovation of the European Commission, to be held on September 7 and 8 GROWINPRO’s Giovanni Dosi and Andrea Roventini are among the speakers at the European digital conference “Moving the frontier of the macroeconomic modelling of Research and Innovation”, to be held […]
The beneficial effects of R&D grants
A GROWINPRO research found that direct government funding of private R&D is effective in sustaining the innovative efforts and performance of small and medium enterprises Direct public grants to finance the research and development (R&D) efforts of private firms lead to positive and sizable effects, a GROWINPRO research found. The paper, The causal effects of […]
COVID-19, a new section on the website
GROWINPRO partners are investigating the economic, social and scientific consequences posed by COVID-19 at a global level. Following the economic and social crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, governments have to intervene in their economies in unprecedented ways. The EU is negotiating a recovery fund to tackle the consequences of COVID-19. “While this immediate response […]