The MACROTEC (Integration of Macroeconomic and S&T Policies for Growth, Employment and Technology) project is funded under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme, through the first call of proposals in 1999 (Key Action Improving the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base, contract no. HPSE-CT-1999-00014). It began in April 2000 and will run for two years. There are 10 partner institutions from 9 European countries, plus advisers in several other countries. SPRU acts as the principal coordinator.
The project investigates to what extent macroeconomic and S&T policies in the wider Europe are mutually compatible, how (in)compatibilities between these two areas of policy affect employment, growth and technical change in selected European countries, and will suggest new policy approaches which should integrate macroeconomic and S&T policy in order to promote structural change. The project combines quantitative analyses of macroeconomic performance and technology, with national case studies on how the macroeconomic policies affect technological performance, especially in the context of policies for harmonisation with the EU. The case studies will also investigate how EU supranational policies, in particular macroeconomic policies which are now defined or harmonised at the EU level, impact on S&T across Europe and in individual member states.
The website gives details on the Work Programme as agreed at the project's outset, the participants, the report(s) to date, and some of the papers we have been formulating and discussing. It should be noted that none of the papers or data on the website are to be quoted without the author's express permission, since they represent work in progress.
Reports
Papers resulting from the MACROTEC Project
- Final report of the MACROTEC Project July 2003 (pdf, 554k)
- Attila Havas (2002) Does Innovation Policy Matter in a Transition Country? The case of Hungary. Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 380-402. Apreliminary version is available as a KTK/IE Discussion Paper, MT-DP 2002/5, at http://econ.core.hu/hirek/dp/mtdp0205.pdf
Papers from the Madrid workshop, 1-2 March 2002
- Growth, Innovation and Specialization Patterns - History and institutions in intermediate countries (pdf, 123k) Isabel Salavisa
- Public S&T Policy and Technological Innovation in Poland, 1989-2000 (pdf, 57k) Andrzej H Jasinski
- The impact of macroeconomic policy on investment, imported technical change and RTD in Greece (pdf, 140k) George Liagouras and Yannis Caloghirou with Artemis Koukounari
- Cumulative growth and technology-gap: complementary or alternative views? The empirical evidence for Spain, 1960-1997 (pdf, 132k) Fulvio Castellacci and Isabel Álvarez
- European Macro-economic Policy and Technological Development: the case of Greece (pdf, 83k) figures (pdf, 27k) tables (pdf, 116k) Ioanna Kastelli.
- Technical Change, Effect Demand and Economic Growth (pdf, 483k) Michael Landesmann and Robert Stehrer
- Industries, Costs and Macroeconomic Regimes in Central and Eastern European Countries: Towards Stylised Facts (pdf, 290k) Djuro Kutlaca and Slavo Radosevic.
Third periodic meeting - Athens 4/5 May 2001
- Agenda (pdf, 8k)
- Guidelines for Workpackages (pdf, 121k)
- Data from Mark Knell (pdf, 56k)
- Demand Growth as a Determinant of R&D Expenditures - Christian le Bas (pdf, 101k)
- How variations of economic activity can push or pull innovative activity - Christian le Bas (pdf, 38k)
List of Macrotec partners
Full details of each partner institute and participating academics can be found here.
SPRU, University of Sussex, UK
Nick von Tunzelmann (g.n.von-tunzelmann@sussex.ac.uk)
Dr Slavo Radosevic (s.radosevic@ssees.ac.uk)
Pari Patel (p.r.patel@sussex.ac.uk)
Djuro Kutlaca - SPRU Visiting Fellow
Centre Walras, Université de Lyon 2, France
Christian le Bas Alexandre Cabagnols
Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), The Netherlands
Huub Meijers
Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Yannis Caloghirou
Natasha Constantelou
Nicholas Vonortas
George Liagouras
WIIW, Vienna, Austria
Dr Mark Knell
Professor Michael Landesmann
Robert Stehrer
IE/HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Budapest, Hungary
Attila Havas
Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Dr Stanislaw Kubielas
Mieczyslaw Socha
Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Dr Rossitsa Chobanova
Prof Dsc Alexander Dimitrov
Dr Pavlinka Ileva
Dr Radostina Bakardjieva
Dr Vesselin Minchev
Irena Zareva
ECAP, Universidad de Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dr Antonio Fonfria Mesa
Isabel Alvarez-Gonzalez
BETA, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Patrick Llerena
Monique Flasaquier
Isabelle Terraz