This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …

factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local 'social filter', taking also into … account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter', good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …

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 … literature by combining in one model R&D, spillovers, and innovation systems approaches. A multiple regression analysis is …