This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of whether and to what extent the organisation of industrial activity influences innovative output in investigating the European regional landscape. After a review of the related literature we build a model based on firstly, different...

This paper aims at investigating interregional knowledge spillovers. After a review of the related literature, we construct a regional knowledge production function that allows for extra regional innovation-generating inputs. Accounting for regional specific "social capability," this knowledge...

This paper aims at investigating the innovation process of European regions in taking into account potential feedback relations between university and private business research and development (R&D). After a review of the related literature, we construct a simultaneous equation model based on a...