innovation and technical change is, however, not much studied. The existing work on the effect of immigrants on innovation is … the innovation of the receiving countries, it has much less to say about the general effect of immigrants, or of low …-educated immigrants. In this paper, we make an attempt to partly fill the gap concerning the effects of overall immigration on innovation …

objective written in the Research, Development and Innovation Strategy 2014 to "reaching until year 2020 the critical mass of … and qualitative human resources in research, development and innovation" (R&D Strategy, 2014). …

use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …

regional innovation and the importance of local inputs in innovative performance. However, most of the studies use data from … innovation measured by patents, and, similarly, a relation between patenting activity of the firms and local academic research …. With the purpose of evaluate which externality is more important to innovation in Brazilian regions, marshallian or …

Diversity is considered key to research, innovation and growth. However, throughout the literature, the exact meaning … diversity and innovation directly. To fill in this gap in the literature, this paper offers an empirical analysis of the … relationship between technological diversity and the impact of innovation at the EU regional level whilst including different …

We investigate how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant … innovation, we expect that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new … technology. However, we also expect that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often …

Bailey et al.,1999). Hence, the question arises, whether FDI fosters innovation and networking activities in CEE, and in how … economic and innovation research. They measure the successful output of R&D efforts (see Carpenter and Narin, 1983, Griliches …, 1984, and Schmoch et al., 1988). In this paper, patent data are used, in order to measure innovation activities. As …