alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are specified. One is based on patent applications, the other on numbers of …

lens of the regional knowledge capital model (KCM). The objective is to estimate the impact of region-internal and region … manufacturing industries. We explain TFP - starting from the regional KCM - by region-internal and region-external knowledge stocks … patents granted by the Chinese patent office. In estimating the effects, we implement a panel version of the standard SDM that …

. -- Cultural diversity ; innovation ; knowledge production function ; Germany … investigates the significance of cultural diversity of the workforce on innovation output for a cross-section of German regions …, education levels are also important. Diversity among highly qualified employees has the strongest impact on innovation output …

The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not … this controversy using a model of regional growth. The model also deals with the impact of local competition on innovation …

crucial importance of region-external knowledge sources for a region's knowledge production capacity. The objective of the … measured in terms of patent counts at the regional level in the time period 1998-2008, using patents applied at the European … Patent Office (EPO). The independent variables include an agglomeration index, measured in terms of population density, and …

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography … innovative firms. Migration costs, however, limit the concentration of economic activities in the most productive region …

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … measures constructed from innovation survey data appear to work reasonably well while measures of the Euclidean technological …