research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

paper starts with the framing in the context of the knowledge based economy and its requirements concerning scientific …

An advanced economy relies on innovation activity for its further technology improvement. On the other hand a backward … economy depends on both imitation from the world technology frontier and innovation activities - innovation being more skilled … innovation-only regime to an imitation-innovation regime. I show that dependence on imitation activities rises and as a …

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the sources of entrepreneurship and its … consequences with regard to economic performance. This paper extends this theory and links it to innovation performance. We propose … that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into innovative products while it has no …

and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and c) the examination of geographical diffusion of regional knowledge … of the EU-25, including measures of R&D investment, proxies for regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …

innovation to maximize the social good. Knowledge is the key element of the innovation systems and the institutions which have an … important role in its development can be stated as: (1) Universities and academic institutions (develop and transfer knowledge …’ cooperation and links between each other is essential to acquire and diffuse knowledge for the knowledge-based economies …

regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical …