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The BBVA Foundation awards AQR project.
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Date: 12/12/2014
The BBVA Foundation awards one of its five grants for research projects in the area of socioeconomics to a team of researchers from the AQR research group. The project "Redes de colaboración tecnológica e innovación. Determinantes y efectos sobre la competitividad de las empresas españolas" – Technology collaboration networks and innovation. Determinants and effects on competitiveness of Spanish firms" has been one of the 5 projects selected for funding under the call of the BBVA Foundation Research Grants on Socioeconomics. The number of applications in that area exceeded one hundred. AQR members in the project team are R. Moreno, as PI, J.Ll. Carrión, E. López-Bazo, R. Ramos, V. Royuela, J. Suriñach and E. Vayá. It also includes the participation of R. Crescenzi (LSE), E. Miguelez (Univ. Bordeaux) And S. Usai (CRENoS-Univ. Of Cagliari).
The overall objective of the project, to run over the next two years, aims to provide robust evidence about the role of technological collaboration and participation in global innovation networks in the success of the innovative activity of Spanish companies and the effect that it has on both business results, especially in terms of international competitiveness, and employment generation and income inequality.
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