higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national …

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. … research more on societal problems, while being better empowered and enabled by Governments. Universities must show leadership …

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 …

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 …

perspective taking into account different channels of external, internal and wage flexibility determined by both the institutional … permanent and temporary jobs, working time adjustment, wage flexibility and active and passive labour market policies. The paper … internal flexibility. At the same time, however, it appears that the crisis has – at least in some cases – contributed to a …