-ups from knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms with persistent R&D investments have a significantly increased … start in the same firm, indicating the importance of inherited related knowledge. The findings suggest that R&D intensive …

The link between proximity and innovation has been dwelled upon extensively in the literature. A regional economic … successful regional innovation system. In this paper it is proposed that the relevant link to be studied is rather that between … accessibility and innovation. Although accessibility is a key factor in facilitating the processes stressed to be important for …

regions. How such innovations are created and how successful innovation processes can be initiated are therefore extremely … has been termed regional innovation systems. The actors in the regional innovation systems include customers, producers … innovation systems has focused on high-tech clusters in large metropolitan regions well equipped with a broad spectrum of all …

-specific Poisson process, is assumed to be influenced by the firm’s past experience and cumulated knowledge assets. The model assigns a … consistent with the model. First, the modeled innovation process imply a persistent distribution of heterogeneous firms. Second …-dependent stochastic innovation process. …

destination. In the empirical analysis we examine how the arrival of innovation ideas varies across regions and how this variation …

influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …

the invariant character of regional development and innovation phenomena, such as long-term population growth, export …

that the arrival rate of innovation ideas to an individual firm is a function of each firm’s stock of varieties at every … firms remain. We make use of simulations to depict and assess the innovation dynamics of the proposed model. …