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Regional Clusters of Innovative Activity in Europe: Are Social Capital and Geographical Proximity the Key Determinants?

Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Groot, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Finding proper policy instruments to promote productivity growth features prominently on the Lisbon agenda and is central in many national as well as European policy debates. In view of the increased mobility of high-skilled workers in Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional...

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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9

Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...

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Science, Innovation and National Growth

Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014

This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic growth with the help of a GMM panel regression including 114 countries. Effects on productivity growth and capital and labor inputs are distinguished. Furthermore, different time...

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Knowledge Spillovers and Economic Growth

Stel, André van; Nieuwenhuijsen, Henry - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not straightforward which type of spillovers is most effective: intra-sectoral spillovers or inter-sectoral spillovers. We investigate this controversy using a model of regional...

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...

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Development, growth and decline in Europe: New patterns of economic convergence and divergence?

Cornett, Andreas P.; Soerensen, Nils Karl - European Regional Science Association - 2013

structural and R&D policy the aim of the current paper is to assess, to what extent they have supported regional convergence, not … measure the impacts on regional convergence in a European (country wise) and urban-rural perspective. The first part of the … developments and perspectives until 2020. The second part considers the impact on the process of convergence of the current decline …

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Micro-Evidence on the Determinants of Innovation in The Netherlands: The Relative Importance of Absorptive Capacity and Agglomeration Externalities

Smit, Martijn J.; Abreu, Maria A.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

This paper employs firm-level data to analyze the relative importance of firm characteristics and agglomeration externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to estimate the probability that a firm will introduce...

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Does Connectivity Impact Innovation Performance in Rural Regions?

Wassmann, Pia; Schiller, Daniel; Thomsen, Stephan - European Regional Science Association - 2014

There is a broad consensus in the literature in that R&D is a precondition for innovation and in turn, for economic growth. On the regional level, this implies that regions with a high stock of R&D should reveal better results when it comes to economic performance. This presumption has lead...

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Regional Effects of a Cluster-oriented policy measure. The Case of the InnoRegio program in Germany

Brenner, Thomas; Emmrich, Carsten; Schlump, Charlotte - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

This paper examines regional effects of the InnoRegio program, which was conducted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional...

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