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English Français     Type:   Article Title:   The territorial
dynamics of innovation: a Europe–United States comparative
analysis Author(s):   Rodriguez-Pose, Andres (Author) Crescenzi,
Riccardo (Author) Storper, Michael - Centre de sociologie des
organisations (Author) In:   Journal of Economic Geography Date
issued:   2007-11 Volume:   7 Issue:   6 Pages:   673-709  p.
ISSN:   14682702 Abstract:   The United States and European
Union differ significantly in terms of their innovative
capacity: the former have been able to gain and maintain world
leadership in innovation and technology while the latter
continues to lag. Notwithstanding the magnitude of this
innovation gap and the political emphasis placed upon it on both
sides of the Atlantic, very little systematic comparative
analysis has been carried out on its causes. The empirical
literature has emphasized the structural differences between the
two continents in the quantity and quality of the m