Blog post
19 December 2014
High growth firms and job creation in Europe
While all forms of entrepreneurship play a critical role in the economy, a growing body of evidence has shown that it is the high-growth firms that ar
Blog post
19 December 2014
While all forms of entrepreneurship play a critical role in the economy, a growing body of evidence has shown that it is the high-growth firms that ar
Blog post
09 December 2014
Bruegel contributes to the stream of research on PATSTAT by providing two algorithms that try to minimize the amount of manual work tha
Event
02 December 2014
Growth & Innovation
Working paper
27 November 2014
This paper provides new evidence about the budgetary consequences – for patent offices – of the coexistence of the forthcoming Unitary Patent (UP) wit
Blog post
29 October 2014
The following graph shows the individual index of Google searches for "Uber" and the index of searches for "Taxi", both in Ge
Opinion piece
29 October 2014
The rising financing gap for SMEs as well as high growth firms is a serious concern for Europe battered by financial fragility. These firms, particula
Blog post
25 October 2014
Two recent LinkedIn analyses show some interesting facts about work-related migration in the 21st century and how this reshapes the world’s economic e
Blog post
30 September 2014
Uber, the innovative ridesharing service, has recently generated a lot of anger from the taxi industry because it enabled market entry for many privat
Working paper
28 September 2014
The inventors in PATSTAT are often duplicates: the same person or company may be split into multiple entries in PATSTAT, each associated to different
Event
16 September 2014
Finance Focus
Policy brief
28 August 2014
Crowdfunding is a growing phenomenon that encompasses several different models of financing for business or other ventures. We assess the potential ro
Blog post
11 June 2014
As sharing economy companies become valued in the billions, grand claims are being made for the future of these new providers. But the question remain
Video
11 June 2014
Policy brief
10 June 2014
Are R&D budgets being smartly used to address growth? How is the crisis affecting public Research & Development budgets across the EU?
Blog post
14 May 2014
The concept of “crowdfunding” has increasingly drawn attention, most recently for its possible role in providing equity funding to start-ups. While th
Blog post
01 May 2014
The Commission, in its role as regulator, should mandate standard-setting organisations to define the details of FRAND ‘contracts’ compatible with EU