Andrés Rodríguez?Pose|Marco Di Cataldo
Quality of government and innovative performance in the regions of Europe
London School of Economics and Political Science|London School of Economics and Political Science
article aims shed light institutions shape innovative capacity focusing regional government quality affects innovative performance regions europe exploiting new data quality government assess government quality components control corruption rule law government effectiveness government accountability shape patenting across regions european union eu results analysiswhich robust controlling endogeneity institutionsprovide strong evidence link quality government capacity regions innovate particular ineffective corrupt governments represent fundamental barrier innovative capacity periphery eu strongly undermining potential effect measures aimed promoting greater innovation results important implications definition innovation strategies eu regions