language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …

difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers and … empirical evidence regarding the spatial dimension of investment, entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers, and features both …, innovation, economic growth, economic integration and regional development will find this book to be of great interest. It will …

detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …

Knowledge triggers regional growth. Evidence suggests that skilled labour force concentrates in islands of innovation … increasing returns to knowledge, favouring the emergence of islands of innovation; regions with a high endowment of cognitive …, determining an advantage for innovative regions and a challenge for lagging ones. We address the role of knowledge in shaping …