using 241 NUTS-2 regions covering the EU-25 member states. The dependent variable, knowledge production activity, is … participations of a region in R&D joint ventures funded by the European Commission under the heading of the EU Framework programs …

The recent growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) has led to a proliferation of scholarly efforts to analyse the … economic effects of FDI inflows in the economy of the host countries, whereas the second studies the economic factors …/conditions in the host countries that pull in FDI flows. The purpose of this paper is to add to this latter dimension of the …

The focus of this paper is on cross-region R&D collaboration funded by the 5th EU Framework Programme (FP5). The …

externalities refer to the relationship between accumulated or prior period knowledge and current levels of innovation, where past … learning-by-doing makes innovation positively related to cumulative production over time. Our empirical specification allows …

participating in projects of the 5th EU Framework Programme (FP5). The data for carrying out this study is taken from a survey among … FP5 participants and the EUPRO database. 23 EU member countries (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta and Rumania are excluded) plus … generation, which is essentially a consequence of how the Framework Programmes had been set up. Similarly, crossing EU-15 …