research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation … associated with higher levels of knowledge creation, measured either by the number of patents applied for through the Patent …

new knowledge. We employ a panel of 20 European countries and we study the impact of the share of foreigners in the … skilled labour force on two measures of innovation, namely the number of patents and the number of citations of scientific … innovation. What underlined hypotheses may drive such result? First, skilled foreigners contribute to enlarge the size of the …

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

, concluding that it reflects human knowledge. It is argued that the increase of human knowledge and of its products is mirrored by …

knowledge-based societies does not only imply a process of higher education massification; this institute must become more …