Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

products from Portugal and Spain between 1930 and 1974. In the first part, we analyse the main structural alterations that …

During the second half of the twentieth century, the Spanish cork industry lost its hegemonic position to Portugal in … industrial cork district of Aveiro (Santa Maria da Feira) in the north of Portugal. It was there that the growth of the … of industrial investment in Portugal - the socalled Industrial Conditioning (Condicionamento Industrial) - did not …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and economic growth in the European Union. We … identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into economic growth. In an empirical … investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance is conducive to economic …

Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical … creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …