Akcomak, Semih; ter Weel, Bas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
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 …