Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …

Knowledge flows from universities to the regional economy can take different forms ranging from formal research … collaborations to consultancy and informal personal connections. One of the knowledge communication channels drawing substantial …. Empirical evidence suggests that Europe performs less successfully than the US in transferring knowledge from university labs to …

Regional knowledge spaces are heterogeneous, and the structure of these knowledge spaces can play a significant role in …

Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …

. The results suggest that interregional knowledge spillovers and their productivity effects are to a substantial degree …) produce interregional knowledge spillovers that have positive and highly significant productivity effects. The study, moreover …The objective of this study is to identify knowledge spillovers that spread across regions in Europe and vary in …

Specialisation strategies on the labour productivity of regional economies. We design an analytical framework that takes into account … Portal. The results show that Smart Specialisation strategies increase labour productivity as long as the priorities are set …

questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …

period between 1980 and 2007. The results partially refute traditional knowledge on the productivity of services. Contrary to …The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over …. Traditionally, productivity has been introduced as explaining factor of tertiarization processes in advanced economies, while it has …

The recent increase in R&D offshoring have raised fears that knowledge and competitiveness in advanced countries may be … which R&D offshoring is associated with productivity dynamics of European regions. We find that offshoring regions have … higher productivity growth, but this positive effect fades down with the number of investment projects carried out abroad. A …