Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...

The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the...

Als "Pluspunkte" Sachsens hob Prof. Dr. Oppenländer die "Dichte der Wissenschafts- und beruflichen Bildungseinrichtungen", die "Verfügbarkeit qualifizierter Arbeitskräfte" sowie die "Zugriffsmöglichkeiten auf produktionsnahe Dienste" hervor. Zu den Schwachstellen gehörten noch die sog....

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are strongly...