queuing theory to firstdemonstrate that when allocating goods publically, a case can be made for favoring a particular groupof …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …

this paper have implications for both theory and policy. …

obstacles and consequences. For the purpose of this paper, innovation has served as a major contributor for the previously … and explores those innovation determinants that have been detected by region. The analysis defines a set of regionalized … firms' behavioural patterns towards innovation. Methodologically, the Logistic Biplot is applied to an extended sample of …

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … circumstances in which there is either too much or too little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) the aggregate economy of N>2 …

detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …