Firms investing in environmental issues often suffer from increased operating costs and
reduced profits. Therefore, rigorous environmental legislation is required to motivate firms to …

Human capital is identified as one of the main determinants of economic growth and plays
an important role in the technological progress of countries. Nevertheless, existing studies …

This paper provides empirical investigation of the effects of environmental innovations (EIs)
on environmental performances, as proxied by the environmental productivity (EP) measure …

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature on demand-driven
innovation, using a generic national innovation ecosystem map as a unifying framework. We …

This paper elaborates a view on knowledge as a result of a combinatorial search activity, so
as to investigate its effects on economic growth at the regional level. Empirical estimations …

The relationship between innovation and productivity growth has received a lot of attention
in recent decades. Many countries are facing economic structural changes in the form of …

This paper contributes to the analysis of the persistence of innovation activities, as
measured by total factor productivity (TFP), and explores its internal and external …

abstract The article investigates the effects of the agglomeration of technological activities on
the growth in regional productivity, applying the notion of pecuniary knowledge externalities …

Europe has witnessed a considerable labour productivity slowdown in recent decades.
Many potential explanations have been proposed to address this productivity 'puzzle' …

This paper studies the relationship between the innovation performance of European
regions and their resilience. By exploiting a novel dataset that includes patents and …