Parent, Olivier; Riou, Stéphane - In: Journal of Regional Science 45 (2005) 4, pp. 747-775
This paper estimates the effects of knowledge spillovers on patent growth rates across 335 European regions over the 1989-1999 period. We propose a dynamic model based on an innovation production function. A Bayesian approach is used to take into account area-specific innovation and spatial...