Cuidado com os subsídios

Por um lado este texto, "Research: When Losing Out on a Big Opportunity Helps Your Career", de onde sublinho:

"We examined more than 1000 early-career scientists in the U.S. who had narrowly won or just missed winning a key grant, and found that, in the longer run, the near-miss researchers ended up producing higher-impact work, on average, than their narrow-win peers."

Neste outro texto, super-interessante, "The IT revolution and southern Europe's two lost decades", de onde sublinho:

"Since the middle of the 1990s productivity growth in southern Europe has been much lower than in other developed countries.
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Some papers argue that the large capital inflows that southern Europe received during the first decade of the euro have mostly been captured by low-productivity firms, depressing aggregate productivity through a composition effect. Others claim that inefficient management practices have kept southern European firms from taking full advantage of the IT revolution
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many salient long-run features of southern European economies can be explained by a single factor: inefficient management.
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We have also analysed southern Europe's policy interventions. Subsidising IT adoption actually lowers southern productivity even further. Likewise, subsidising education has negative effects, as it is effectively becomes a transfer to the north through high-skilled migration. These surprising results are due to the fact that, in our model, low IT adoption and low education are a symptom, rather than the cause, of low productivity growth in southern Europe."