The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over the last two decades, produced various … with respect to gross production, investment and employment generation. Meanwhile, one of the greatest public policy … firms located throughout the country, and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation …

-in maximizes the returns to local investment in R&D. …

regulations, the resulting decision by a polluting firm to upgrade its capital stock, and the impact of innovation on this … upgrade its capital stock. First, they construct a dynamic model of regulation driven investment by a polluting firm. Second …, they specify the conditions characterizing efficient investment. Third, they study the impact of an unanticipated increase …

. This paper addresses the issue of transborder investment in Eastern Europe by Western companies. The paper contributes … (Section 2). Furthermore, based upon a blend of applied studies, the paper explores empirically transborder investment in … Eastern Europe (Section 3). Particular attention will be given to barriers to this investment (Section 4). The paper proceeds …

. This paper addresses the issue of transborder investment in Eastern Europe by Western companies. The paper contributes … (Section 2). Furthermore, based upon a blend of applied studies, the paper explores empirically transborder investment in … Eastern Europe (Section 3). Particular attention will be given to barriers to this investment (Section 4). The paper proceeds …

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … means of the number of patent applications per million inhabitants. Given the geographical concentration and subsequent … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …

Portuguese strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy have, over the past two decades, produced various … respect to gross production, investment or employment generation. Meanwhile, one of the greatest public policy efforts was to … firms' contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts. For the purpose of this paper, innovation …

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) an aggregate economy of N>2 regions and (iii) an aggregate economy of N=2 …

series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …