This paper investigates the concurrent effects on regional disparities ofthe speeds of innovation and of the spatial diffusion of knowledge. The aim is to investigatewhether an increase in the pace of innovation, identical in all regions, due toexogenous factors such as the «technological...

This article investigates the effect that the interaction between the creation and the spatial diffusion of technology brings on regional disparities. We will show that an increase in the pace of innovation, as it has happened with the "technological revolution" can engender regional income...