Absorptive capacity denotes an organisation’s ability to recognise, assimilate and apply external knowledge for commercial or social value. It comprises two interlinked dimensions: potential ...

While expanding public investment can help filling infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling up too much and too fast often leads to inefficient outcomes. This paper rationalizes this outcome looking at the ...

Is the nation’s “absorptive capacity†enabling the country to achieve its full potential for growth? Are investment decisions making the economy more efficient? These two questions have an ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is looking at how to improve the absorptive capacity of the different government agencies to maximize the early release of the ...

In development, stabilization, and peace building, donors increasingly recognize the importance of being sensitive to the local contexts of their efforts. Yet the use of “blueprints” remains ...

EU leaders brought in more transparency for future Council meetings and sealed 'absorption' as the new rhetoric joker on enlargement at the EU Summit. The concept of ‘absorption capacity’, which was ...

The "no" results in the May-June 2005 referenda in France and the Netherlands on the European Union's proposed constitution were followed by predictable statements that the EU was in a condition of ...

Henderson, Rebecca M., and Iain Cockburn. "Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery." Journal of Industrial Economics 46, no. 2 (June 1998): ...

This article, by Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform, argues that the absorption-capacity debate has so far only looked at the negative side of the enlargement balance sheet. This ...