Innovation and investment are critical to economic growth. In this article, we address the complex task of evaluating … the capacity of regional innovation to increase investment and generate spillovers in regions of the European Union (EU … spatial competition, both in terms of the distribution of investments and in terms of the diffusion of short-term innovation …

developments, innovation and infrastructure endowment), the growth analysis accounts for spatial effects related to the existence … endowment, accessibility and innovation capacity explain both growth dynamics and cross regional differences. We do not find …

The aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of research externalities across space, in generating innovation. We do … would increase the innovation of the region itself by 80-90%. Given the small size and the limited range of diffusion, we …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, the productivity of its R&D and the existence of knowledge spillovers across regional boundaries. Here we develop a … model which, emphasizing "the demand pull" as a key exogenous determinant of long-run innovation across regions, allows us …