using the four variables identified under the World Bank's knowledge economy index (KEI) and seven financial intermediary …This paper assesses the relevance of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the knowledge economy (KE)-finance nexus …

questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …