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 …

(EU) is starting to acknowledge the importance of spatially targeted regional policies and to understand how crucial a … context we analyse the impact of FDI on growth and development of European regions, discussing the role of different … assessment of the impact that various types of FDI can have according to the characteristics of the country they come from …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

There is a rich debate in the innovation literature about to what extent innovation has become an international (or … knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) to regional innovation has emerged. Most of these papers adopt a national …-intensive services (KIS) in the European regions. For so doing we employ the data provided by the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS …

drivers of that competitiveness, especially if considering the impact on economic development and social progress. Innovation … regions' innovativeness in different European regions and to evaluate the nature of the innovation process and the … competitiveness of a region is reflected in its innovation capacity or innovation dynamic. The literature review regarding regions …

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European … effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. By looking at country and sector level … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …