We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

driving growth across the EU, such as knowledge-intensive services, are instead stagnating in Italy. Previous structural … an efficient innovation system or substantial R&D investments, were ignored. Going forward, governmental reforms should …

Economic convergence is a major aim of the EU. Innovation and investment in economically weaker regions are key steps … member states and increase economic disparities • Pact for Innovation: structural funds with a strong focus on innovation …

tape, bulky administrative procedures, slow courts, complicated taxes, and an inefficient knowledge transfer- remain …

perceived by their workers and suggest that technological innovation is perceived by active workers as a signal of firms' health …

research potential. To better take advantage of this, the country needs to expand its innovation system significantly. There is … greater added value in the medium term, the country has a chance of transforming itself into an innovation-driven economy. …