The paper examines the long-run relationship between innovation and per capita economic growth in the 19 European … countries over the period 1989–2014. This study uses six different indicators of innovation: patents-residents, patents … cointegration technique, the study finds evidence of long-run relationship between innovation and per capita economic growth in most …

productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a … deceleration of TFP growth since 2000. However, the economies of New Europe exhibit a higher level of TFP growth overall and have … slowed less than those of Old Europe. In the new market economies of Central and Eastern Europe, we find both high TFP growth …