Essays about: "Lisbon Agenda"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the words Lisbon Agenda.

1. 6. The Swedish R&D Paradox – The Basis for its Existence and its Policy Implications

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Anne-Sophie Larsson; [2010]
   Keywords : Economic growth; GDP; GERD; Innovation; R D; R D Intensity; Swedish R D Paradox; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper explores the validity of assuming the existence of a Swedish R&D paradox based on the relationship between R&D expenditures and economic growth, and what implications the existence of such a paradox ought to have on policies that concern R&D expenditure. Consequently, in the first instance, the relationship between Gross Expenditure on Research & Development (GERD) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is de-obfuscated and empirically explored based on actual data from 2000 to 2008 for all EU countries as well as some other European and world leading economies. READ MORE

3. 7. 'New Europeans' for the 'New European Economy' : Citizenship Discourses and the Lisbon Agenda

   University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Sandy Hager; [2006]
   Keywords : European citizenship; Lisbon Agenda; EU transnational business; European Commission; critical theory; cultural political economy; neo-Gramscian IPE; discourse analysis; embedded neo-liberalism; neo-liberal communitarianism;

   Abstract : Combining insights from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and neo-Gramscian IPE theory, this paper puts forth a cultural political economy (CPE) perspective to analyse the discursive articulation of ‘European subjects’ in the context of the EU’s Lisbon Agenda modernisation strategy. It is suggested here that the transformation proposed in Lisbon to the new economic imaginary of the knowledge based economy (KBE), depends on ‘new subjects’ and thus new discursive constructions of identities to reflect the new economic and social formations it envisions. READ MORE

4. 8. The Role of the Information Sector in the Lisbon Agenda

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Svenja Friedrich; [2005]
   Keywords : Information Sector; Lisbon Agenda; legal uncertainty; legal inflexibility; non-uniform consumer structure; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Management of enterprises; Företagsledning; management; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This case study aims to analyse the contribution of the Information Sector to the success of the Lisbon Agenda. The Information Sector is here defined as covering the areas of information technology, telecommunications and digitised information (e.g. software, content). READ MORE