Regions in Germany are facing an intensifying structural change towards the knowledge economy which is affecting spatial patterns of growth. . Features of such a change know many facets: fierce competition for skilled, mobile and motivated labor force, unemployment of non-qualified labor, longer...

This paper examines the impact of knowledge endowments on the economic growth of European regions by considering the channels through which they (labor productivity or employment) increase income levels (Per Capita GDP). A wide array of knowledge base indicators are considered here for...

This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...