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The Impact of Migration Movements on Innovation Activities in Croatian Counties

Innovation activities are one of the most important engines behind economic growth. Among factors that facilitate development of innovations particularly important place belongs to social and cultural diversity of particular geographic areas. Contributions within number of academic disciplines point to the positive impact of the heterogeneity of population on the generation of new ideas, knowledge diffusion, entrepreneurship and economic growth. However, the relationship between migrations and innovations at regional level has been investigated to lesser extent. This is particularly true when it comes to spatial effects of migrations on innovations that have not been addressed in the existing literature. The objective of this research is to explore spatial impact of migrations on innovation activities of Croatian counties in 2003. - 2011. period. Results obtained using spatial panel Durbin econometric technique point to positive impact of international migrations on regional innovation activity. Inter-county migrations have negative intra-regional but positive inter-regional impact on the generation of innovations. Increased innovation activity within individual regions has negative impact on same activity of neighbouring regions.

migration ; innovation ; regional analysis

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