data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …

, which only holds in the long-term but not in the short-term. Further, we find support for a moderating effect of innovation … in the long-term, innovation mediates the ESP-CFP relationship suggesting that innovation should be considered as a long …

effectiveness and efficiency of national and European innovation policies. Building on the literature on the knowledge production …

externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm … agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation. …

The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not … this controversy using a model of regional growth. The model also deals with the impact of local competition on innovation …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the links between innovation, the evolution of … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … been the former, while the continental Europeans have chosen the latter. The purpose the thirteen articles of Innovation …

, We show that, in presence of licensing, the incentive for innovation may also be stronger under decentralized unions …