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The Co-Evolution of Knowledge and Economic Structure: Evidence from European Regions

Francesco Quatraro

No 2012-16, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: This paper articulates an analysis of the co-evolutionary patterns of structural change in knowledge and economics. The former is made operationally through the analysis of co-occurrences of technological classes within patent documents, so as to derive the indicators of coherence, variety and cognitive distance. The latter is instead made operational in a synthetic way by implementing a shift share analysis, which allows to decomposing the growth in labour productivity in the effects due to the changing allocation of employment, those ascribed to intra-sector productivity growth and those due to the interaction of these two. The results of the analysis conducted on a sample of 227 European regions, show the existence of interesting lead-led dynamics between knowledge and economic structure that call for further investigation.

Keywords: Recombinant Knowledge; Coherence; Variety; Regional Structural Change; Shift Share Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2012-12
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