detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

Innovation research has become an important topic in regional science analysis. Yet the modelling base of much … innovation research is still feeble. This paper aims to map out the research potential of recent approaches in quantitative … space-economy. The urban context of European innovation processes is used as an empirical background. The paper addresses …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level … ; innovation ; cultural diversity ; knowledge spillovers ; linked employer-employee data ; Netherlands …