Globalization, specialization and innovation dynamics -- Savings, investment and growth : new approaches for macroeconomic modelling -- Economic integration, technological progress and growth -- Impact of the real exchange rate on trade, structural change and growth -- Macroeconomic aspects of opening up, unemployment, growth and transition -- Productivity shocks, innovations, stock market dynamics and growth -- Innovation dynamics and optimum growth -- Trade, structural change and growth in an open monetary economy -- Innovations in the digital economy : promotion of R & D and growth in open economics -- EU innovation policy : analysis and critique -- Financial market integration, interest rates and economic development -- Natural resources, oil prices and innovation dynamics.