Portugal, it is shown that even when controlling for potential endogenous factors associated to attendance and academic …

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 …

technological innovation, and to adopt and to implement efficiently technology from abroad. However, the role of human capital as a …

In this paper, we study human capital effects on economic growth of Portugal from 1960 to 2001. By using VAR and … cointegration analyses, we obtain 0.42 long-run estimate for human capital elasticity, 0.30 long-run estimate for internal knowledge … between human capital and innovation capability. These estimates seem to confirm that human capital and indigenous innovation …

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical …