-driven economic growth model with labor mobility and a demographic structure of overlapping generations. The model shows a natural … tendency for core–periphery structures to emerge in modern knowledge-based economies. …

-driven economic growth model with labor mobility and a demographic structure of overlapping generations. The model shows that there is … a natural tendency for core-periphery structures to emerge in modern knowledge-based economies. …

Market competition is central to innovative activity, the diffusion process and macro-economic productivity growth …. Productivity growth at all levels comes about through institutional reconfiguration in response to the ongoing market process …. Stable and sustained long-term growth in output requires the continuous creation of new technological and commercial …

context of a general equilibrium model of innovation-led growth. In the model, innovation comes from entrant firms creating …

incentive to accumulate knowledge. As a result, countries with large barriers experience lower income and growth. Our results …We study how barriers to business start-up affect the investment in knowledge capital when contracts are not … enforceable. Barriers to business start-up lower the competition for knowledge capital and, in absence of commitment, reduce the …

This paper develops an endogenous growth model with quality ladders where consumers heterogeneity is assumed and is … inequality, raises the intensity of research activities and the growth rate of the economy. …

Market competition is central to innovative activity, the diffusion process and macro-economic productivity growth …. Productivity growth at all levels comes about through institutional reconfiguration in response to the ongoing market process …. Stable and sustained long-term growth in output requires the continuous creation of new technological and commercial …

sectors industries. Firms' innovative persistence and the regional knowledge stock are also important. …

. Narrowing the gap in knowledge spillovers across regions raises growth, and reduces regional inequality by making firms more …, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the … endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial variations in knowledge spillovers lead to spatial concentration of more …

introduced into the market, patents, GDP growth, and so on. Second, the time lag between innovative efforts and performance is … argues that country- and sectoral-level approaches which emphasize the role that knowledge, spillovers and human capital play … in fostering economic growth trough innovation need to consider the fundamental role played by competition among …