This paper investigates the embeddedness of European regions in different types of inter-regional knowledge networks … dimension in regional knowledge production activities. The results reveal conspicuous differences between the knowledge networks … spill-over effects of region-external factors on centrality in the co-publication network. Thus, the distinctive knowledge …

This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic … as well as less and more developed countries are studied separately. The results confirm the effect of innovation output … on productivity for more developed countries. Simultaneously, innovation output is found to have negative impacts on …

The regional or national innovation performance has been repeatedly measured in the literature; but it has so far not … been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is the contribution of a region to innovation … output? The usual approaches implicitly assume that higher innovation outputs per inhabitant, employee, or R&D employee can …

This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services …

substantiates this claim showing that collaborative R&D subsidies impact regions' innovation growth when providing access to related … variety and embedding regions into central positions in cross-regional knowledge networks. …

It has been repeatedly shown that universities and public research institutes contribute to local innovation generation … empirical examinations are missing. We analyse the impact of universities and public research on regional innovation output … innovation generators or innovation facilitators. All analyses are conducted on German data. …

Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities …

The paper contributes to the debate on how to measure regions' innovation performance. On the basis of the concept of … regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global … measures. We argue for the use of a robust shared-input DEA-model to estimate regions' innovation efficiency in a global manner …

the regional growth dynamics of economic, research, innovation and educational activities affect each other … instantaneously and over time in five different industries. Referring to the type of industry and its knowledge base, expectations are … derived on how industry-specific growth processes unfold. Knowledge on the causal relations among the various activities in …

In the literature there is a controversy about the relevance of the spatial dimension in innovation collaboration. We … innovation projects. To this end, we introduce a social-psychological approach to the field of economic geography. The empirical … part is a longitudinal study of 49 inter-organisational innovation groups in Germany. We find that the share of regional …