Creative and inventive individuals are the principal inputs for the generation of ideas which ought to imply the presence of a strong “scale effects” in the production of new ideas. Identifying the relationship between population size and idea generation is difficult at the level of national...

At the regional scale, human capital and agglomeration forces are assumed to shape innovative capacity, but there are likely to be more direct channels like the development and commercialization of new products. This article examines the relationship between inventive activity and productivity...