The present paper studies the determinants of regional innovation in Europe through a knowledge production function approach that combines factorial analysis and regression. Our dependent variable are the patents while we used initially 21 explanatory variables that were converted--by a factor...

This book begins with a theoretical examination of regional innovation systems, agglomeration economics and knowledge spillovers, before going on to examine the same concepts within an empirical framework. Special emphasis is given to the importance of proximity in the formation of regional...

This paper analyses the pick-up rate in the Spanish production structure of the low interest credits for R&D projects, offered by the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology. The profiles of these firms, based on association tests and a logistic regression model, are...