The focus of this paper is on pre-competitive R&D cooperation across Europe, as captured by R&D joint ventures funded by the European Commission in the time period 2002-2006, within the 5th Framework Program. The cooperations in this Framework Program give rise to a collaborative network, with...

1 Theory and History of Regional Science -- 2 Location and Interaction -- 3 Regional Housing and Labor Markets -- 4 Regional Economic Growth -- 5 Innovation and Regional Economic Development -- 6 Regional Policy in Emerging Markets -- 7 New Economic Geography and Evolutionary Economic Geography...

This paper uses Bayesian model comparison methods to simultaneously specify both the spatial weight structure and explanatory variables for a spatial growth regression involving 255 NUTS 2 regions across 25 European countries. In addition, a correct interpretation of the spatial regression...