Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35000 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3341
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance is conducive to per capita income growth and that social capital affects this growth indirectly by fostering innovation. Our estimates suggest that there is no direct role for social capital to foster per capita income growth in our sample of European Union countries.
Subjects: 
Social capital
innovation
economic growth
European Union
JEL: 
O1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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