facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related … strategies that are related to innovation. Training is also greater where a firm emphasizes quality and a comprehensive human …

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 …

obstacles and consequences. For the purpose of this paper, innovation has served as a major contributor for the previously … and explores those innovation determinants that have been detected by region. The analysis defines a set of regionalized … firms' behavioural patterns towards innovation. Methodologically, the Logistic Biplot is applied to an extended sample of …

innovation support systems in Portugal. Using a web-based inventory of R&D and innovation agencies, an extensive data base is … (leading to Voronoi mappings) in order to design a systematic typology of innovation clusters in the main regions in Portugal …. A striking result is the significant difference in innovation systems at regional level in Portugal. The paper is …

language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …