Innovation is a crucial driver of urban and regional economic success. Innovative cities and regions tend to grow … population surveys for European regions and US Cities, the paper finds, after controlling for other potential factors, good … evidence of a link between innovation and inequality in European regions, but only limited evidence of such a relationship in …

OECD countries and their regions are ageing fast. In principle, the negative impact of ageing on the growth rate of per … capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth … concentrated in urban areas. One possible explanation is that cities specialise in sectors, such as tradable services, where the …