This paper looks at the genesis of innovation in the United States from a territorial perspective. The analysis aims to … disentangle the impact of local R&D expenditure from other contextual conditions supportive of the process of innovation …. Particular emphasis is devoted to the role of socio-economic factors and systems of innovation conditions (‘social filter …

This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is … contrast, innovation is much more dependent on a combination of good local socioeconomic structures and investment in science …

An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …

This paper looks at the link between inter-regional mobility, innovation and firms' behavioural heterogeneity in their … firm-level data (providing information on firms' innovation inputs and behaviour) a robust identification strategy makes it … possible to shed new light on the geographical mobility-innovation nexus. The analysis of English firms suggests that firm …

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature. Existing studies have failed to reach a …' social capital - based on weak ties - can be identified as the key driver of the process of innovation while 'bonding' social … capital is shown to be negative for innovation. Instrumental variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal …

An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There …

other factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local ‘social filter’, taking also … into account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter’, good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …