The geography of R&I and productivity: Regional disparities and dynamics

Lukas Borunsky (), Richard Deiss (), Roberto Martino () and Julien Ravet ()
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Lukas Borunsky: European Commission
Richard Deiss: European Commission
Roberto Martino: European Commission
Julien Ravet: European Commission

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Abstract: Productivity improvements rely on technological development, organisational progress and its broad deployment. An interplay of several additional factors result in a high complexity and dynamism of the innovation creation and diffusion process. These additional factors together with differences in effectiveness levels of local research and innovation (R&I) ecosystems result in investment in R&I not yielding the same returns everywhere. Apart from considerable time lags between the improvement of R&I systems and tangible economic outcomes, many other factors explain the underperformance of many less developed and transition regions as regards economic returns.

Keywords: Economics; regional policy; cohesion; productivity; innovation gap; territorial development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R10 R11 R12 R13 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2020-12
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DOI: 10.2777/10591

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