Measuring the innovation performance of regions or nations has been repeatedly done in the literature. What is missing … in the literature is a discussion of what innovation performance of a region means. How do regions or nations contribute … really to the innovation output of firms? And how can this contribution be investigated in an empirically sound way? We argue …

Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) have existed in Poland for almost ten years and in this period they have been … Regional Innovation Strategies with particular consideration of their influence on the growth of region innovativeness level in …

The article evaluates support of innovation in four countries - Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. It … concentrates on creation of regional innovation strategies in these countries and compares the proposed measures to the theoretical … background. The paper has two main parts - theoretical background contains examples and reasons for innovation support as well as …