Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of
regional innovation and growth, the role of the networks in these processes has been less …

Whilst the importance of internet-related technologies and digitization practices to economic
performance is well documented, little is known about the long-term effects of the early …

The need to better understand the mechanisms underlying regional growth patterns is
widely recognized. This article argues that regional growth is partly a function of the value …

Because support for entrepreneurship is often a core part of economic development
strategies, we investigate whether it is important for growth in lagging, rural US regions by …

The aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of
regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically …

This paper positions the concept of regional competitiveness within theories concerning
regional economic growth and stages of economic development. It examines the sources of …

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether and how different types of cross-regional
production linkages promote cross-regional collaborative innovations. Based on the …

This article presents some new estimates of the degree of returns to scale for European
regional manufacturing, for the period 1986—2002. To obtain these estimates, the article …

In recent years, increased attention has been given to role of inter-organisational knowledge
networks in promoting regional economic growth. Nevertheless, the empirical evidence …

In this paper we study the impact of regulatory complexity, a measure of institutional quality,
on the GDP, on per capita income and on the growth rate of the Italian regions. For …