R&D is good for economic growth.There is now compelling evidence that R&D is in particular good for local economic growth, since knowledge spillovers tend to be bounded by distance.But how local is local?This paper studies the role of proximity in innovation in the Netherlands, a small...

This paper is about the relationship betweeninnovation and geography. Much of theliterature on regional economics and innovationsuggests that knowledge spillovers are boundedby distance. But distance is a relative conceptand how local is local? Based on a uniquedataset of 1510 Dutch firms we...

In economic research technological progress is often regarded as a given factor and estimated as a residual constant in time. In this study, technological progress is considered as an economic problem in itself. This problem was investigated empirically for the Netherlands, using the numbers of...

Long-run per capita economic growth is driven by productivity growth. Major determinants of productivity are investments in education and research, and the intensity of competition on product markets. While these ideas have been incorporated into modern growth theories and tested in empirical...