Theories of economic growth at the regional and national level, have expanded the traditional production function of the Solow model towards a wide function that collects conditioning factors of labour productivity, measured by R & D expenditure, the number of patents, the human capital, the...

V<sc>ieira</sc> E., N<sc>eira</sc> I. and V<sc>ázquez</sc> E. Productivity and innovation economy: comparative analysis of European NUTS-2, 1995--2004, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Innovation is the guarantee of perpetuation and improvement of productive cycles, as well as the improvement of the work of human resources. This paper...

This paper emphasizes the importance of the innovation input in the productive process, as a way to maximize the capacity and effectiveness of the labour factor and its productivity. This work describes some of the factors that are enunciated and that condition the existence of good levels of...

La industria y la construcción constituyen, en la amplia mayoría de las sociedades desarrolladas, el segundo sector de actividad que genera más valor añadido. A parte de la importancia que por sí sólo representa, este sector funciona como un importante catalizador de producción de riqueza...