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

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

studying the macroeconomic relationships between consumption of luxury, innovation and growth in the presence of non …

implications of trade and luxury, conceived as a kind of social innovation explaining the wealth of nations. During the first half … of the 19th century, the Classical economic approach was formed around the links between luxury, technical innovation and …

being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally … structure characterised by its extent of specialisation, competition and diversity, to yield innovation and productivity growth … (diversity) and Porter externalities (competition) that have provided alternative explanations for innovation and urban growth …

externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm … agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation. Accepted …

-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by means of the number of patent applications per million inhabitants. Given the geographical … concentration and subsequent diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take … of McDonald's restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a …

recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …