There is a rich debate in the innovation literature about to what extent innovation has become an international (or … knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) to regional innovation has emerged. Most of these papers adopt a national …-intensive services (KIS) in the European regions. For so doing we employ the data provided by the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

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 … been simultaneously assessed that services display lower productivity levels and growth rates than other economic …

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. redefinition of industrial, regional and innovation policy to characterise and stimulate the economies along a new growth path. It … the history and the way forward of European industrial policy. As regional and innovation policy are fully intertwined … the role of clusters for the new growth path and the contribution of green innovation, especially in the energy sector, to …

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firmlevel data for 16 European … effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. By looking at country and sector level … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …

Economic convergence is a major aim of the EU. Innovation and investment in economically weaker regions are key steps … member states and increase economic disparities • Pact for Innovation: structural funds with a strong focus on innovation …