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The European Commission has recently approved a Directive proposal to promote repair. After review by the European Parliament and Council, we can assess the policy measures in light of their intended objective. Our analysis shows that the Directive proposal fails to address the most important barriers to repair – planned obsolescence, availability...
Se realiza un análisis crítico de los planes de EC de la UE, tanto de la concepción limitada de EC que está en su base como de la ejecución de los mismos.
Para analizar la Política de EC de la UE, expondremos primeramente el marco y principios generales de la misma, luego se detallan las principales medidas incorporadas en los dos Planes de Acción...
The European Commission has recently launched a proposal for a Directive to promote repair. In this paper we critically analyse the drafting process in order to understand the resulting policy options. We consider that although the ambition of the Directive was low from the beginning given the limited policy options, it became even worse during the...
Se analizan las relaciones complejas y contradictorias entre el proceso de globalización neoliberal -aceleradora del antropoceno- y las propuestas de una economía circular transformadora. El proceso de globalización neoliberal -guiado por las finanzas- de las últimas décadas expandió los flujos internacionales y, por lo tanto, el transporte en toda...
El desbordamiento de los límites ecológicos del planeta reclama una urgente y profunda transformación del actual modelo económico para caminar hacia una economía circular y sostenible, conscientemente respetuosa de esos límites.
Como economistas, debemos superar el corsé del discurso convencional aportando diagnósticos rigurosos de las causas de l...
Artículos La fiscalidad y la economía circular en España: situación actual y potencialidades del uso de los beneficios fiscales a sugeydejesus.lopez@usc.es b juanalberto.turnes@usc.es c xavier.vence@usc.es Recibido: 09/09/2022; Aceptado: 11/01/2023 Resumen La transición a la economía circular implica un cambio profundo en los patrones de producción...
Resumo Se estudian las actividades de reparación y mantenimiento como sector clave para la transición a la economía circular, por su importancia económica y social y por su papel en la prolongación de la vida de los bienes, la reducción del consumo de nuevos recursos y de generación de residuos. Se lleva a cabo un análisis empírico del sector de re...
The importance of repair and maintenance (R & M) activities that contribute to prolonging the lifetime of goods is highlighted as a key component in the transition to a sustainable circular economy (CE). The impact of Value-added Tax (VAT) on R&M activities is empirically analysed and a critical analysis of their tax treatment in the VAT Law (LIVA)...
Circular economy goals have made their way towards the very heart of EU policy, promising the delivery of both economic and environmental goals, but key to their achievement is the active involvement and participation of businesses. Scholarly literature has made considerable headway in describing the diverse CE business model archetypes and the ena...
This article examines the role of environmental taxation in mitigating environmental problems and contributing to sustainability in Mexico. It focuses on environmental tax revenues and tax expenditures since the 2014 Public Financial Reform (PFR), according to pro- or anti-environmental orientation. The research carried out combines the study of th...
Este libro realiza una aproximación crítica al concepto de Economía Circular que parece estar asentándose -no debería ser un nuevo envoltorio para la vieja política de residuos- y quiere redondear, completar, una interpretación avanzada de las políticas que pueden desplegar su efecto transformador y que, por ahora, acompañan de forma insuficiente l...
la puesta en marcha de una estrategia de transición a la EC que contribuya de forma efectiva a la sustentabilidad, a la configuración de un paradigma económico, productivo y de consumo compatible en el largo plazo con los límites ecológicos del planeta, requiere adoptar un enfoque de EC transformadora, que vaya mucho más allá de las versiones desca...
Redondear la Economía Circular, extraer todas las potencialidades de un concepto que se está asentando en el discurso oficial, pero para el que son precisas políticas ambiciosas que configuren un modelo económico sostenible, es el objeto de este volumen. La Economía Circular supone un cambio radical con respecto al paradigma de producción y consumo...
La Economía Circular supone un cambio radical con respecto al paradigma de producción y consumo lineales, con el objetivo de avanzar hacia una economía sostenible que respete los límites ecológicos del planeta. Ello requiere el desarrollo de nuevos patrones de producción orientados a minimizar el consumo de recursos no renovables y nuevos patrones...
This article addresses fiscal policy as a key instrument for promoting the transition to a circular economy. It is based on the hypotheses that (1) the current tax system penalizes circular activities, which are generally labour intensive, as opposed to new product manufacturing activities, which are generally intensive in materials and energy, hig...
La estructura y la tendencia del sistema fiscal reflejan la orientación del modelo de desarrollo que ha seguido México y determinan su modelo futuro y su capacidad para hacer frente a los retos de la sociedad (desarrollo, equidad, bienestar, sostenibilidad ambiental, etc.). El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer la dimensión relativa, la estructura...
This paper analyses the role of consultancy services in the transition towards a Circular Economy (CE). To this aim, the paper brings together two different strands, the emergence of a new Circular Economy paradigm as a complex innovation process which faces many barriers and the innovative role of Knowledge Intensive Services (KIBS). Among KIBS, c...
We carried out an evaluation of the impact of the ERDF-Innterconecta programme (developed within the framework of the Technology Fund 2007-2013) on the main indicators of business innovation in Galicia. Among the different lines of action designed, we focused our analysis on the first two rounds of the Galician ERDF-Interconnecta programme belongin...
The socio-economic structural conditions for the transition towards a circular economy (CE) are little explored, as most of the research is concerned with technical and organizational aspects. The few studies addressing the matter focus on the estimation of GDP growth and job creation potential of certain "circular activities” (CA). These CA are as...
El presente trabajo lleva a cabo la estimación del saldo de la balanza fiscal de Galicia para el período 2011-2013, empleando como base de datos para la imputación del gasto el SICOP, y llevando a cabo una comparativa con el saldo estimado en el Sis-tema de Cuentas Públicas Territorializadas. Como principal novedad, y a diferencia de otros trabajos...
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been a key driver of industrial and technological development, as the experience of many countries shows. The main aim of this chapter is to analyse the role that can play the SOEs as innovation inducers.
This chapter provides a theoretical approach to study the role of SOEs, based on the innovation system frame...
In recent decades many structural and institutional changes have reshaped the economic and social European landscape. The ongoing industrial restructuring from the seventies, the new technologies, the globalization process, the neoliberal paradigm and the European integration were major drivers of this reshaping. One of the intriguing trends along...
The circular economy (CE) defines a new paradigm of production and consumption that seeks to reduce resource consumption and to extend the useful life of products and services through various strategies and closed loops, by trying to avoid waste generation as much as possible or by using waste as a resource for new processes. As such, innovative bu...
Avalíase o impacto en Galicia da implementación do Programa Operativo para e polo beneficio da I+D+i empresarial-Fondo Tecnolóxico 2007-2013, que constituíu un instrumento singular das políticas de innovación financiado polos Fondos Estruturais da Unión Europea e dirixido ás comunidades autónomas españolas do Obxectivo Converxencia da Unión Europea...
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In recent years, the shift to a circular economy (CE) has become an increasingly important component of the European Union's development strategy. However, no consensus has yet been reached on the depth of the transformation this implies, nor on the most appropriate strategy for its measurement. In 2018, the European Commission presented a monitori...
Recibido, Octubre de 2017; Versión final aceptada, Abril de 2018. PALABRAS CLAVE: Gasto público, Infraestructuras, Beneficios, Territorio, Flujos interterritoriales no explícitos. KEY WORDS: Public expenditure, Infrastructure, Profits, Territory, Non-explicit interterritorial flows. Clasificación JEL: H00, H50, H54 RESUMEN: El gasto público y de fo...
p>Eco-innovation is defined as any directed/oriented innovation aiming at reducing environmental impacts. Eco-innovation is not only a technology change; it also embraces organisational, social and system innovations. This systemic and complex thinking is necessary to understand the role of eco-innovation as an enabler of Circular Economy (CE). Cir...
Eco-innovation is defined as any innovation aimed to get a reduction of environmental impacts. Eco-innovation is not only a technology change; it also embraces organisational, social and system innovations. This systemic and complex thinking is necessary to understand the role of eco-innovation as an enabler of Circular Economy (CE). Circular Econo...
Análisis crítica de la aportación de Schumpeter al estudio de la innovación y el desarrollo económico capitalista. Papel del empresario innovador, las oleadas de innovadores y el ciclo económico. El papel del monopolio en la dinámica innovadora. La destrucción creativa y el proceso de innovación endógeno. La endogeneización de la innovación por las...
Análisis detallada de estos aspectos en los Grundrisse, los Manuscritos de 1861-63 y 1863-65 y en El Capital (Libro I y Libro III).
Fresh pasteurized milk consumption is evaluated from environmental and socio-economic perspectives. Two different supply chains are analysed: traditional supply chain and vending machines—a circular business model based on a short supply chain. Milk vending machines show that consuming milk in proximity, eliminating intermediaries between producers...
Neste traballo analízase a importancia do proceso de terciarización do sector
agrario galego e as súas características en relación co modelo agrario rexional. É un
fenómeno que recibiu pouca atención na literatura e, porén, é unha realidade dunha
importancia crecente para entender o desenvolvemento agrario e o desenvolvemento
rexional. A distribuci...
EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY FUND 2007-2013 ON THE GALICIAN R&D&I INDICATORS
ABSTRACT
The aim of this document is to conduct an assessment of the impact on R&D indicators provided by the Operational Programme for
the benefit of R&D&i for Companies- Technology Fund 2007-2013 in Galicia, Convergence territory of the EU. A detailed analysis...
IMPACT ON R&D&I INDICATORS OF PARTICIPATING COMPANIES IN THE 2ND GALICIAN ERDF-INNTERCONECTA PROGRAM OF THE TECHNOLOGY FUND 2007-2013 IN GALICIA
ABSTRACT
We analyze the most relevant indicators in the behavior of the companies that make up the innovative Galician fabric throughout the European programming period 2007-2013. This study shows the res...
The servicising approach in vineyard protection is considered a valid alternative to achieve decoupling between the economic and environmental performance of viticulture. In this paper, a policy package is designed to promote the uptake of a servicised model of vineyard protection in an area of smallholding viticulture. In doing so, a specific meth...
The adoption of a servicizing approach to pest control has been pointed out as a strategy to reduce the environmental impact of the agricultural sector. However, and especially in smallholding agriculture, the adoption of crop protection services is quite limited and the "calendar" approach is still dominant. The objective of this paper is to defin...
In this paper the importance of the tertiarisation of the Galician agricultural sector and its main features in relation to the regional agricultural sector are analysed. It is a phenomenon that has received scarce attention in the literature, though it is a reality that deserves attention in order to favour the understanding of the agricultural an...
The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence and findings about the relationship between innovation and export behaviour at micro-level (firm). The study is based on the general hypothesis that innovation has a positive effect on firm competitiveness (opening new markets; increasing productivity; creating new products ...). Moreover, it is also...
El fin del presente documento es realizar una evaluación de las redes empresariales que se conforman en el tejido innovador gallego a través del programa Feder-Innterconecta del Fondo Tecnológico 2007-2013. Un análisis detallado de las interacciones producidas como el aquí propuesto, permitirá no sólo comprobar qué sectores económicos son los premi...
Servicizing has been identified as a business strategy that may contribute to the improvement of the environmental performance of economic activities. This paper analyses the organisational and environmental effects of servicizing in the farming sector. In particular, a case study of three Galician dairy farms which become members of cooperatives t...
This document aims to make an assessment of the first two calls of the ERDF-Innterconecta
Program belonging to Technological Fund 2007-2013, as part of innovation policies
implemented in Galicia. The study focuses on the analysis of the participation of companies,
and the smart specialization strategy designed by regional authorities becomes the co...
El objeto del presente documento es realizar una evaluación del programa FederInnterconecta
II del Fondo Tecnológico como parte de las políticas de innovación
llevadas a cabo en Galicia, Comunidad Autónoma con objetivo Convergencia de la
Unión Europea en el período 2007-2013. Se propone poner el foco de atención en las
fugas de actividad producidas...
Objectives/Rationale: The spread use of pesticides in agriculture, at
least in the more intensive models of production, has important
consequences in the environment and in people’s health. The
challenge of environmental sustainability in the agricultural sector
may be faced through different practices, with organic farming being
one of the most re...
Objectives/rationale: This paper explores the barriers to adopt a
servicized model of crop protection in viticulture, basing on grape
wine growing in the Designation of Origin Rías Baixas (Galicia, Spain).
Servicizing in the agricultural sector has rarely being studied
although some existent works indicate the potential to reduce the
environmental...
A través de una revisión bibliográfica este trabajo busca analizarla efectividad de los instrumentos de política ambiental, en particular los demando y control, instrumentos de mercado y planes voluntarios, que promuevenla ecoinnovación. Este trabajo analiza la información presentada en 40 artículosde investigación publicados en revistas con proces...
In this paper we conduct a systematic literature review with the aim of understanding the effectiveness of environmental policy instruments, in particular, command and control, marketbased
instruments and voluntary schemes, in promoting eco-innovation. This study analyzes the information presented in selected papers, mainly from peer-reviewed journ...
A fin do presente documento é realizar unha avaliación do programa Feder-Innterconecta I do Fondo Tecnolóxico como parte das políticas de innovación levadas a cabo en Galicia, Comunidade Autónoma con obxectivo Converxencia da Unión Europea no período 2007-2013, poñendo o foco de atención nas fugas de actividade producidas nesta convocatoria. Propon...
RESUMO A fin do presente documento é realizar unha avaliación do programa Feder-Innterconecta do Fondo Tecnolóxico tendo en conta a coherencia coa smart specialisation strategy, como parte das políticas de innovación levadas a cabo en Galicia-rexión obxectivo Converxencia da Unión Europea-. Empregaranse unha serie de obxectivos intermedios que serv...
El objetivo del trabajo es analizar el nivel y evolución de la intensidad tecnológica de los flujos comerciales bilaterales entre España y sus principales socios europeos (UE-15) durante el período 2000-2012. El estudio parte de la existencia de diferentes intensidades tecnológicas sectoriales que han sido destacadas en la literatura sobre la espec...
La Gran Recesión está poniendo de manifiesto las importantes y crecientes disparidades existentes en el crecimiento de las regiones europeas. Esta evolución desigual viene acompañada, a su vez, por notables disparidades en la especialización productiva, hecho que no resulta casual. Este trabajo aborda el debate de la convergencia/divergencia region...
The dramatic and continuous drop of the cow milk price paid to the dairy farmers has triggered new marketing channels, avoiding intermediaries in the supply chain. During the last 20-30 years, farmers were joined in co-ops to strengthen their interests. However, milk price has even decreased more in the last years. Recently, some farmers are joinin...
This paper explores the contribution of servitization practices to improve the environmental performance of economic activities. In particular, it focuses on the outsourcing of specific activities through cooperatives in the livestock farming sector. Therefore, the objective of the paper is twofold: firstly, we propose a conceptual framework to cla...
Servicizing has been defined as a shift from selling products to selling functionality. As an innovative business model, the approach tries to realize economic and environmental benefits at the same time. This paper focuses on how the servicizing approach may help small organizations to overcome structural and other barriers and to adopt complex su...
Els set anys de profunda crisi de les finances glo-bals, que està sacsejant tota la UE però sobretot la seva perifèria, obliguen a repensar obertament tant un model econòmic que té símptomes de fracàs i esgotament, com l'arquitectura instituci-onal i els principis que han estat guiant el procés d'integració comunitari. Una crisi tan profunda de les...
This paper analyses the location patterns of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in Europe in line with the most recent literature. Our main contribution is to provide new evidence about the location patterns of KIBS considering the European continent, as opposed to individual countries, as the unit of analysis. We first present the concen...
O obxectivo deste traballo é analizar a relación entre a desigualdade e a renda dispoñible equivalente a nivel rexional e contrastar o tipo de relación existente entrambas as dúas variables na Unión Europea (UE) no contexto do modelo de crecemento neoliberal. Neste traballo estimamos un modelo con datos de panel mediante o método de mínimos cadrado...
This paper analyses the emergence and development of the Medicon Valley biomedicine cluster from an evolutionary perspective. We focus on the co-evolution and synergies among the drivers of the cluster's emergence. Targeting biomed involves some challenges and complexities, which are particularly strong in this case, owing to its specificities (bi-...
The necessity of addressing the challenge of sustainability has brought forth in recent years several approaches to enable greener paths of development for economies. From the field of engineering and environmental sciences servicizing or product-service-systems (PSS) have been studied since the end of the 1990’s as an innovative strategy linked to...
Neste traballo analízase a dinámica de innovación nun sistema vitivinícola local, destacando o papel dos organismos reguladores das denominacións de orixe (DO), que velan pola protección da súa singularidade como un elemento máis do sistema local de innovación. A través do seu papel na innovación preténdese analizar en que medida a acción colectiva...
Analysis of the UE Economic and institutional crisis and proposals for a new European Project overcoming the neoliberal set-up
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between inequality and the equivalent dispo-sable income available at a regional level and to contrast the type of relationship between two variables in the developed world in the context of a standard neoclassical growth model. In this paper we will estimate a panel data model using the method o...
This paper analyzes the dynamics of innovation in a wine local system, emphasizing the paper of the regulatory organisms of Protected Designations of Origin (PDO) that guard over the protection of his singularity, as an important element of the local innovation system. Across his paper in the innovation it tries to be analyzed in that measured the...
Realízase unha análise das ideas económicas centrais na obra de Valentín Paz-Andrade. Faise especial fincapé no papel clave do sector financeiro propio para o desenvolvemento económico do país e no papel do centralismo político-institucional como factores retardatarios e marxinadores do noso país.
Examining 2148 innovating service firms from the Spanish Technological Innovation Panel 2004, this paper utilizes Latent Class Analysis to appraise the scope of innovation cooperation in services in the Spanish economy, in accordance with the growing weight of external information flows throughout innovation processes. The empirical evidence indica...
The increasing interest in eco-innovation or environmental innovation as a strategy not only to address the serious global environmental problems but also as a source of competitive advantages for companies and for the emergence of new business areas, leads us to try to identify the different factors that act as determinants of its development and...
La actual crisis económica que está sacudiendo la Unión Europea ha puesto al desnudo la profunda inconsistencia de la arquitectura ins-titucional comunitaria y muy especialmente del euro, del BCE y del Pacto de Estabilidad y Crecimiento. La deriva de la crisis fi nanciera hacia la crisis de la deuda soberana puso de manifi esto de una forma defi ni...
Analísase a importancia que ten a actividade inversora das caixas sobre o tecido produtivo do seu entorno e, por conseguinte, sobre o crecemento económico da rexión. Para o que se fixo unha revisión do papel do sector bancario no desenvolvemento rexional en diferentes teorías, para logo aplicalo ao que foi o caso das caixas de aforros galegas. A pr...
Ensaios sobre a crise do capitalismo neoliberal de 2008.
Presentación
Crise Financeira/crise global do neoliberalismo
Crise dunha UE neoliberal
Caixas de Aforros: golpe de graza neoliberal
Crise e regresividade fiscal
Crise e conflicto de clase
Privatización e ataque ao estado de benestar
Modo de vida e crise ecolóxica
Medicon Valley is a bi-national life science cluster located in the √òresund region. This cross-boder region includes a Swedish side and a Danish one. The fact of being a bi-national cluster constitutes a remarkable singularity. This life science cluster is the third in Europe and among the top five in the world. Their outstanding strongholds ar...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between inequality and per capita income level, obtaining data at a geographic disaggregate level (European regions). The research paper develops a regional analysis applying multivariable techniques and using inequality indices and the equivalent disposable income. With regard to the empirical e...
El estudio de la innovación en el sector servicios ha generado una creciente literatura que destaca sus especificidades con relación a la innovación en el sector industrial. En este artículo intentamos acotar el alcance de esas especificidades al tiempo que examinamos la heterogeneidad de las actividades de innovación entre las diversas ramas del s...
The innovation in services has been historically ignored in the literature of innovation economics and all efforts made in order to categorize their innovation performance has reduced innovation services to a mode dominated by suppliers. In this context, some aspects such as innovation cooperation in services, and the importance of the external inf...
1. A vocación internacional do nacionalismo Todo nacionalismo ten unha decidida vontade de situar a nación no concerto de nacións do mundo. Esa é xustamente unha das diferencias fundamentais entre o nacionalismo e o rexionalismo. O rexionalismo ten por vocación a defensa do propio e dos intereses particulares dentro do marco estatal do que forma pa...
Resumo: Realízase unha análise dos trazos máis importantes da evolución do sistema galego de innovación ao longo da última década. Examínase a posición relativa de Galicia no cadro eu-ropeo con base nos indicadores sintéticos de innovación e examínanse as tendencias evoluti-vas con base nos indicadores de input e output das actividades de I+D e de...
This paper explores the main features of the Galician System of Innovation (GIS) and highlights the main trends in his evolution during the last decade. The relative position of Galicia in the European context is charted by using the innovation scoreboard of european regions. The analysis of the main input and output indicators of R&D and innovatio...
Se realiza un análisis de los rasgos más importantes de la evolución del sistema gallego de innovación a lo largo de la última década. Se examina la posición relativa de Galicia en el marco europeo con base en los indicadores sintéticos de innovación y se examinan las tendencias evolutivas con base en los indicadores de input y output de las activi...
Recently, literature on innovation in service activities has increased significantly. Much effort has been concentrated on understanding the importance of innovation for these activities, and on stressing innovative differences relative to the manufacturing innovation model. However, a deeper understanding is needed in three main areas: the degree...
Public enterprises have played a very significant contribution to drive innovation. In fact, we found several public enterprises among the firms with the highest levels of R& D or in areas of great economic, technological and social importance. So we can consider them as an instrument of technological policy. The process of privatizations can affec...
