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 …

n this paper, we develop two hypotheses: First, regional innovation efforts have a positive impact on regional … particular, our results suggest that innovation efforts have an indirect effect on economic performance via entrepreneurship …. This indirect effect is neglected in existing empirical studies focusing on the direct effect of innovation on economic …

In this paper, we develop two hypotheses: First, regional innovation efforts have a positive impact on regional … particular, our results suggest that innovation efforts have an indirect effect on economic performance via entrepreneurship …. This indirect effect is neglected in existing empirical studies focusing on the direct effect of innovation on economic …

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 …