Patuelli, Roberto; Vaona, Andrea; Grimpe, Christoph - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2008
the creation of new technological knowledge. The existing literature has typically addressed this question by employing a … knowledge production function based on firm-, regional- or even country-level data. Estimating the effects for the entire … level of NUTS-3 regions, we find different knowledge production functions for the East and the West. Moreover, we …