crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …

series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally …-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically … structure characterised by its extent of specialisation, competition and diversity, to yield innovation and productivity growth …

externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm … agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation. Accepted …

particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In …-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by means of the number of patent applications per million inhabitants. Given the geographical … concentration and subsequent diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take …

recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …

development strategies. Despite different perspectives, most studies highlight knowledge creation and innovation as the major … drivers of change and growth. This consensus disappears, however, as soon as the complexity of innovation and knowledge are … connectivity in order to understand where and how strong the links are for innovation in Portugal, and to analyse the respective …