Specialisation strategies on the labour productivity of regional economies. We design an analytical framework that takes into account … Portal. The results show that Smart Specialisation strategies increase labour productivity as long as the priorities are set …-dependency in diversification choices. The findings deepen our understanding of regional development and innovation strategies, and …

productivity effects of spillovers were at best smaller than intramural R&D productivity effects. We also find that building on the … greater skills and experience of enterprises already undertaking R&D (intensity) raised labour productivity more than … firms could boost productivity either by abandoning extramural R&D or by doing much more. There were substantial differences …