This paper analyses the role of infrastructure endowment and investment in the genesis of regional growth in the … interactions with innovation and local socio-economic conditions. The analysis accounts for spatial interactions between different … endowment on regional economic performance, but also the weak contribution of additional investment. Regions having good …

This paper looks at foreign Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) investing in the UK and at their impact on the innovation …-level information the paper develops a direct measure of capital inflows at a three-digit industry level. In order to capture innovation … Innovation Survey (CIS). The results suggest that domestic firms active in sectors with greater investments by MNEs show a …

This paper looks at the link between inter-regional mobility, innovation and firms' behavioural heterogeneity in their … reliance on localised external sources of knowledge. By linking patent data (capturing inventors' inter-regional mobility) with … firm-level data (providing information on firms' innovation inputs and behaviour) a robust identification strategy makes it …

The debate on Russia’s innovation performance has paid little attention to the role of geography. This paper addresses … this gap by applying an ‘augmented’ regional knowledge function approach to examine the territorial dynamics of innovation … firms play a fundamental role as ‘global knowledge pipelines’. Different territorial dynamics of innovation are observed in …

of the EU-25, including measures of R&D investment, proxies for regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three … approaches: a) the analysis of the link between investment in R&D, patents, and economic growth; b) the study of the existence …

contrast, innovation is much more dependent on a combination of good local socioeconomic structures and investment in science …This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …

factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local 'social filter', taking also into … account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter', good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …