dissemination of innovations in regions via spillover effect (NESTA Business growth and innovation, 2009). Fast-growing companies … may contribute more than 50% to GDP growth (Europe INNOVA Gazelles Innovation Panel, 2008). There are several works, that … exogenous factors (Delmar, Davidsson, Gartner, 2003). In our work we assume that regional innovation performance (as a share of …

Hall point it, as an important instrument for creating a strategy for the development of innovation at the state and … need for countries and regions to specialize as well as focus development of innovation in areas that are consistent with …

, development and innovation. Smart specialization is an important instrument for creating a strategy for the development of … innovation at the state and regional level as well as for defining and building the knowledge-based economy. This paper presents … specialization is helping to focus development of innovation in areas consistent with their endogenous potentials. The aims of the …

entrepreneurial activity in innovation and regional growth within a spatial semi-endogenous growth model in the spirit of Jones (1995 …

growth based on knowledge and innovation. Poland and its regions are in a specific socio-economical position characterized by … develop and maintain a competitive advantage is to trigger knowledge- and innovation-based entrepreneurship. Cohesion policy … funds open up great opportunities for innovation. Nowadays, when the programming period 2007 - 2013 came to an end, it is …

The role of universities for the innovation process of countries or regions had been widely explored. In lagged regions … analyses innovation and especially the interaction of firms with universities and research institutes, as strategy to face the … low internal investment capacity in innovation. Our focus is the ultra-peripheral region of Brazilian Amazon and it is …

perspectives of entrepreneurship and innovation. However, despite many common touching grounds these strands of research are rarely … conceptually intertwined. Research on the role of the academia within the innovation process of knowledge-based economies highlight …, entrepreneurial experience, re-innovation processes etc.) is added by yet others within the network. The presented concept describes …