ABSTRACT
The goal of this chapter is to analyse the contribution made by research networks and the labour and geographical mobility of inventors to the process of knowledge creation. To this end, we extend the typical regional Knowledge Production Function (KPF, hereafter) to include such features of the local labour market, which are likely to explain the spatial heterogeneity in patent production across 287 European regions, in a multivariate econometric model. In this way, we can measure the elasticity of new knowledge to intra-regional and extra-regional knowledge flows. To the best of our knowledge, the contribution of these features to spatial differences in regional innovation is still poorly understood.
