Social Capital, Innovation and Economic Growth

Multidisciplinary innovation is the engine of growth of an increasing number of economies. Innovation output depends increasingly on information sharing and cooperation between creative agents. Sharing and cooperation requires the existence of generalised trust. Social capital consists of trust and trust-based networks. Our main goal is to illustrate theoretically the importance of social capital to the growth of an innovation economy.

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Thompson, Maria
Institutions:	Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas (NIPE), Universidade do Minho
Subject:	Innovation \| Social Capital \| Economic Growth

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	NIPE Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 3/2015
Classification:	o00 ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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