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  1. The multiple facets of regional innovation
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Univ. of Innsbruck, Inst. für Finanzwiss., Innsbruck

    Measuring innovation activities involves critical decisions in selecting appropriate indicators and levels of observation. The present article contributes to the literature on this subject by addressing innovation measurement on the regional level.... more

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    Measuring innovation activities involves critical decisions in selecting appropriate indicators and levels of observation. The present article contributes to the literature on this subject by addressing innovation measurement on the regional level. The dimensionality of regional innovation is examined by applying a principal component analysis on seven innovation output indicators in European regions from the Community Innovation Survey and two traditional indicators, i.e. patent applications and R&D expenses. The analysis reveals that regional innovation indeed needs to be regarded as a multidimensional concept involving technological, commercial and service innovation. These distinct innovation activities exhibit clear regional patterns with both technological and service innovation concentrated in highly developed territories and urban areas displaying particularly strong innovation performance in services. In addition, commercially successful innovation appears clustered in backward regions and may thus be seen as imitation efforts and technology transfers from areas at the innovation frontier. Overall, the elaborated findings suggest that the selection of innovation indicators in empirical analyses demands appropriate motivation and theoretical guidance.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/101107
    Series: Working papers in economics and statistics ; 2014-19
    Subjects: regional innovation; innovation dimensions; Principal Component Analysis; patent applications; Community Innovation Survey
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  2. The effect of (mostly unskilled) immigration on the innovation of Italian regions
    Author: Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' enclaves), we find that the overall stock of... more

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    We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' enclaves), we find that the overall stock of immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high-skilled migrants shows that an increase of 1 percentage point in the share of low-skilled migrants on the population reduces patent applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous literature, but cannot be precisely estimated.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/93326
    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 7922
    Subjects: immigration; innovation; patent applications; regions; Italy
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