creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …

The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not … this controversy using a model of regional growth. The model also deals with the impact of local competition on innovation …

pharma should either build a critical mass of disease area knowledge or diversify projects over different DA’s in order to … obtain higher success probabilities. Projects in which a firm has built a critical mass of disease knowledge (through at … interpret this finding as knowledge spillovers from external to internal projects, as the limited number of external projects …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

-technology industries and into new emerging knowledge-based industries. In other words, it involves innovation, industry evolution and their …The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the links between innovation, the evolution of … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment …

, We show that, in presence of licensing, the incentive for innovation may also be stronger under decentralized unions …

recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …