Innovation and investment are critical to economic growth. In this article, we address the complex task of evaluating … the capacity of regional innovation to increase investment and generate spillovers in regions of the European Union (EU … spatial competition, both in terms of the distribution of investments and in terms of the diffusion of short-term innovation …

regional innovation and the importance of local inputs in innovative performance. However, most of the studies use data from … innovation measured by patents, and, similarly, a relation between patenting activity of the firms and local academic research …. With the purpose of evaluate which externality is more important to innovation in Brazilian regions, marshallian or …

their ability to convert local academic research into local commercial innovation. We develop and test the hypothesis that … the presence of a large, local, R&D-intensive firm an anchor tenant enhances the regional innovation system such that …

The aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of research externalities across space, in generating innovation. We do … would increase the innovation of the region itself by 80-90%. Given the small size and the limited range of diffusion, we …

In this paper, we investigate innovation factors and their role in regional economic performance for a sample of 261 EU … innovation factors on economic performance. The spatial analysis indicates that both regional in- novativeness and regional … Europe. We assessed the impact of innovation factors and their spatial counterparts on economic performance using a spatial …