, We show that, in presence of licensing, the incentive for innovation may also be stronger under decentralized unions …

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …

Portuguese strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy have, over the past two decades, produced various … firms' contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts. For the purpose of this paper, innovation … the present performance of Portuguese firms located throughout the country and to explore those innovation determinants …

effectiveness and efficiency of national and European innovation policies. Building on the literature on the knowledge production …

this controversy using a model of regional growth. The model also deals with the impact of local competition on innovation …The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not … competition is important particularly for economic growth in industry sectors (manufacturing and construction), while diversity, a …

structure characterised by its extent of specialisation, competition and diversity, to yield innovation and productivity growth … (diversity) and Porter externalities (competition) that have provided alternative explanations for innovation and urban growth …Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally …

This paper extends Hotelling's model of price competition with quadratic transportation costs from a line to graphs. I … of graph models of price competition is that spatial discontinuities in firm-level demand may occur. I show that the …