This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal … excessive (greater than first-best) R&D investment and output growth. -- legal system ; commitment ; flexibility ; innovation …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

determined by the industrial development triggered by changes in domestic demand, increases in FDI, intensive innovation efforts …

capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

The paper proposes a simple equilibrium model of venture capital, entrepreneurship and innovation. Venture capitalists … productive and active VC industry boosts innovation driven growth. …

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …