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Call for papers – SmartEIZ Conference

Horizon 2020 Twinning project ‘SmartEIZ’ SmartEIZ Conference “Smart Specialization Strategies: Contemporary Challenges of its Design and Implementation” September 25–26, 2018 The Institute of Economics, Zagreb Background The global financial crisis was a trigger that had an influence on the economic policy on a national level all over the globe. EU sent a unique message to…

Visiting Training Session on Multilevel Modelling

Julia Korosteleva, Senior Lecturer in Business Economics at SSEES, University College London, delivered fourth SmartEIZ Visiting Training Session on multilevel modelling. The purpose of this course was to introduce EIZ staff to the key concepts and methodology of multilevel modelling (ML) and to illustrate various applications of ML modelling in empirical research, using STATA software.…

Visiting Training Session on Developing questionnaires/surveys and Household level survey data analysis

Second visiting training session was held from 11th to 15th December 2017 at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb. Prof Anthony Arundel from UNU-MERIT delivered an intermediate mini-course on survey design and implementation. The course provided instructions on how to design and implement a survey, from initial preparation to data editing. This course was followed by…

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First Visiting Training Session

Visiting Training Session (VTS) ‘Firm level data analysis’ was held from 9th to 11th October 2017 at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. This VTS included three lectures by Dr Micheline Goedhuys on Micro data sources for innovation and firm performance analysis, Innovation and performance: issues in empirical modelling and Impact evaluation of innovation policies, methods…

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Smart Skills Training Workshop for researchers and academics

Forthcoming two-day Smart Skills Training Workshop (TW) is going to be held on October  30 and 31, 2017 at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. This specialized TW will be related to upgrading Skills within Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) in Croatia. Key focus of this TW is exploring various aspects of skills policy (designing and implementing) related…