knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and …This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …

assessing how the structure of actor-based knowledge networks is affected by such policies. We continue in that direction and … analyze how technology-based regional knowledge spaces structurally respond to the introduction of a cluster policy. Taking … the example of the German BioRegio contest, we examine how such knowledge spaces in winning and non-winning regions …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It … recombination of internal and external knowledge assets. To analyse the embedding of KM in a firm's internal system of innovation we …. Using data on KM and innovation success of 351 German firms of the manufacturing sector and knowledge-intensive services …

importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management … establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm’s total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when …

-based knowledge spillovers as one such factor (Audretsch and Lehmann 2005, Cassia et al. 2009). This paper extends this approach to … the regional innovator network, promoting region-specific knowledge spillovers. Two data bases are applied. First, patent …

effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect … Innovation System (RIS) approach. -- regional development ; regional effects of cooperative behavior ; knowledge ; related …The literature on "Innovation Systems" is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition …