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On the other hand and above all our evidence reveals significant positive (direct plus indirect) total effects on regional productivity induced by KIBS on other industries due to their important role in creating knowledge spillovers. Thus, our results call for economic policies grasping and strategically guiding the advancing structural change towards services, and fully exploiting the potential of KIBS as drivers of knowledge spillovers and productivity dynamics. 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