income between the two regions. An improvement in infrastructure in the poor region has the exact reverse effect. In this …. Contrary to transfers and traditional regional policies, it is shown that a public policy that reduces the cost of innovation …

into account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two …Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European … controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what extent transport infrastructure endowment -- proxied by regional …

future of innovation? First-rate inventions in the 1990s, notably the web and user-friendly business productivity software … markets that welcome innovation, while Europe remains under the control of corporatist institutions that dampen competition …

of R&D that firms do and the amount of spillover they generate; between information sharing and research coordination …; between each of the latter and cooperation; between substitute and complementary research paths; between firms located in the … cooperation (different industries, complementary research, research design) while cooperation need not induce information sharing …

international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … for the 1990s. This paper documents the extent of this economic dilemma confronting Germany as well as the rest of Western …

This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure … accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so … that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France's regions over 1985-91 suggest that influence …

infrastructure to the transition process. In addition to the direct cost savings, infrastructure investment generates important … indirect effects, or transition impacts. The model shows that, by reducing transaction costs, infrastructure intensifies … model, infrastructure also increases the incentives for low-cost firms to restructure which generates additional efficiency …