The paper investigates the effects of agglomeration and specialization of technological activities on regional productivity growth, applying the notion of pecuniary knowledge externalities. The latter are indirect interdependencies between firms mediated by the price system. Pecuniary knowledge...

1. Structural change and the knowledge-based economy : an international overview -- 2. Structural change and the long-run dynamics of economic growth -- 3. The economics of technological knowledge -- 4. Structural change and knowledge structure : an integrated framework -- 5. The implementation...

The Europe 2020 Strategy has identified the key goal of smart, more inclusive and sustainable growth. In this direction, redirecting firms' innovation activities towards ecological targets without hampering their competitiveness is of paramount importance. The double externality issue related to...