, determining an advantage for innovative regions and a challenge for lagging ones. We address the role of knowledge in shaping … increasing returns to knowledge, favouring the emergence of islands of innovation; regions with a high endowment of cognitive …

Socio-economic interrelationships among regions can be measured in terms of economic flows, migration, or physical … favour a similar economic performance among adjacent regions. Therefore, proper forecasting of socio-economic variables, such … particular geographic configuration of a system of regions. Several spatial econometric techniques have been developed in recent …

, determining an advantage for innovative regions and a challenge for lagging ones. We address the role of knowledge in shaping … increasing returns to knowledge, favouring the emergence of islands of innovation; regions with a high endowment of cognitive …

identified when estimating such model on a sample of 261 EU27 NUTS2 regions. Next, empirical results are interpreted in the light … patterns of connectivity between “islands” of innovation and other regions. On the basis of our empirical estimates, we claim … spatial innovation leaders and lagging regions. This situation may be characterised as targeting “hubs”, rather than “islands …

Because of heterogeneity across regions, economic policy measures are increasingly targeted at the regional level. As a … areas (regions) strongly interacting with each other. In such a situation, the application of traditional time … among regions. In this paper, we evaluate the ability of different statistical techniques – namely spatial lag and spatial …