knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …

-enhancing role of innovation and innovation policy. The analysis combines innovation variables with indicators linked to the … formation of adequate social conditions for innovation (the social filter), and spillovers for 31 Mexican states and the Mexico … not only from knowledge spillovers, but also from being surrounded by rich neighbors with good social conditions. The …

“cutthroat”capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …

innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labour has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer … to the technological frontier under the reasonable assumption that innovation is a relatively more skill intensive …

or in the knowledge sector, which designs new varieties. It is shown that if the elasticity of labor supply to the … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with …