Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse income inequality for a sample of 14 European countries and their composite regions using data from the Cambridge Econometrics regional dataset from 1980 to 2009. The purpose of the paper is to provide insight into the dynamics of regional and...

This paper analyses the importance of decisions to interact nationally and internationally on the likelihood of process and product innovation for a sample of Irish firms. The key contribution is to provide an empirical test of the relative importance of geographically proximate versus distant...

This paper introduces a new measure to test whether more frequent interaction has a positive effect on innovation by SMEs in the South-West and South-East of Ireland. Based on an original survey, it finds that more frequent interaction increases innovation likelihood, with the probability...