In the Europe 2020 Strategy, the Member States and the European Commission recognised that increasing innovation is a key to respond to the challenge offered by globalisation and more specifically by the crisis. According to the Strategy, "The crisis has wiped out years of economic and social...

The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European regions. Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the cause of differences in the speed by which follower regions converge and catch-up with...

What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the major cause of differences in the speed by which following regions converge and catch-up with the most advanced ones. In addition,...

The implementation and enforcement of internal market rules, the Single Market Programme, is likely to foster innovation adoption, and to reap the benefits and the innovation potential of the large European domestic market. In this context, the main aim of the present study is to analyze the...