This paper deals with the relationship between knowledge, innovation and regional growth. The study is carried out …

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 …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

labor intensive. The results of this study should be of interest to policy makers since they have the possibility to make … decisions that contribute to more productive regional environments. This is also of interest to company leaders since they have …

This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity … (TFP) in Europe. Regional patent stocks are used as a proxy for knowledge, and TFP is measured in terms of a superlative … periods. In order to estimate the impact of knowledge stocks we use a spatial autoregressive model with random effects, which …

extent knowledge flows depend on geographic proximity. We develop an econometric model, which is discrete in time and space … system. In conclusion, our results confirm that knowledge exchange attenuates with distance. …