Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques; Ozgen, Ceren - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …