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 …

innovation and technical change is, however, not much studied. The existing work on the effect of immigrants on innovation is … the innovation of the receiving countries, it has much less to say about the general effect of immigrants, or of low …-educated immigrants. In this paper, we make an attempt to partly fill the gap concerning the effects of overall immigration on innovation …

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 …

academic research is positively correlated with firms' innovation at the geographical level. There are two reasons that are …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …