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 …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

can offer a broad analysis of product innovation dynamics in Europe which should be the basis for not only better supply … communication in relation to product innovation dynamics. Moreover, the approach provides new important arguments in favor of the … TTIP negotiations between the US and the EU and it suggests a broader analytical link between trade, FDI, innovation …

trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although … knowledge production function has to be considered in order to analyze FDI and innovation dynamics - and this can then be linked …. Time series data analysis for Germany indicates additionally that FDI induced higher innovation dynamics will raise output …