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Innovation and regional absorptive capacity: the labour market dimension

verfasst von: Stephen Roper, James H. Love

Erschienen in: The Annals of Regional Science | Ausgabe 2/2006

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In 2003, Eurostat published an ‘experimental’ dataset on regional innovation levels derived from the Second Community Innovation Survey. This dataset, part of the European Innovation Scoreboard, also contains a range of regional labour market indicators. In this paper, we report an exploratory analysis of this data, focussing on how the labour market characteristics of regions shape regions’ absorptive capacity (RACAP) and their ability to assimilate knowledge from public and externally conducted R&D. In particular, we aim to establish whether labour market aspects of RACAP are more important for innovation in prosperous or lagging regions of the European Union (EU).

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Titel: Innovation and regional absorptive capacity: the labour market dimension
verfasst von: Stephen Roper
James H. Love
Publikationsdatum: 01.06.2006
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in: The Annals of Regional Science / Ausgabe 2/2006
Print ISSN: 0570-1864
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-0592
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-006-0068-4

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