With high profile Multinational Enterprise (MNE) job losses being a regular news feature in Ireland of late, beginning largely with the first big announcement of the transfer of the production facility of Dell in Limerick ...

For a number of decades, a significant amount of resources have been devoted to supporting Irish industrial policy interventions. There has, however, been a distinct lack of evaluation of such interventions. Evaluation ...

Tourism plays an important role in many countries around the globe by creating foreign exchange and generating employment, and by contributing to a more balanced spread of economic activity in areas with few alternative ...

Evaluation is one of the buzzwords of current day parlance in Irish policymaking circles. It is one of those words (like sustainable development a number of years ago) to which everyone claims allegiance, but few actually ...

Firm performance is important for a number of reasons related to job creation, firm survival, innovation, competiveness and overall economic performance; motivating a large body of research on its determining factors. It ...

Dementia is a progressive syndrome causing cognitive decline and functional impairment. The economic burden of dementia is greater than that of stroke, heart disease and cancer combined: however, resources allocated to ...

Governments everywhere are under pressure to deliver service to the community in a situation where the expectation of the population is growing and the public finances are static or falling. To address this problem many ...

China’s economic achievement over the past three decades has been remarkable. It has managed to maintain a sustained period of unprecedented growth since its reform and “opening-up” policies of 1978. As China is now as ...

Developing countries have recently been emulating innovation policies implemented by developed countries with the firm conviction that it will improve their economic development prospects. Nevertheless, the specificities ...