102(4), pages 385-405.<P> Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we … would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and … productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent discrepancies between knowledge inputs and …

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

The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over the last two decades, produced various … sample of innovative institutions in Portugal. Variables such as ‘Promoting knowledge’, ‘Management skills’, ‘Promoting R … firms located throughout the country, and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation …

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 …

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 …

possible to analyse the innovation gradient of each region in Portugal. Our paper presents and systematically investigates …Portuguese strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy have, over the past two decades, produced various … firms' contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts. For the purpose of this paper, innovation …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …

innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …