the economic effects of this decentralization policy on the level of innovation and its spatial distribution in the … during the past eight years. These measures of innovation, together with data documenting the decentralization of university …, suggesting that the decentralization has affected regional development through local innovation and increased creativity. We also …

first in the early 1990s that Krugman brought the subject into the stage light. The scientific interests of cluster and … at various education levels. The importance of cluster and clustering has also been recognized at a national, regional … and local level and cluster policies are becoming a major part of political thinking. These policies are however often …

regions. How such innovations are created and how successful innovation processes can be initiated are therefore extremely … has been termed regional innovation systems. The actors in the regional innovation systems include customers, producers … innovation systems has focused on high-tech clusters in large metropolitan regions well equipped with a broad spectrum of all …

understanding the span of innovation networks over regions, and how these could develop in response to policy initiatives. …

Recent debate has focused on the importance of corporate governance, localization of headquarters, foreign direct … investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

insights have also been gained as to how entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge are interrelated. Yet, a comprehensive … understanding is still lacking concerning the interface of all of those variables: knowledge, innovation, entrepreneurship and … commercialization through innovation, and the role of the entrepreneur in the growth process. The policy implications of recent research …

consistent with the model. First, the modeled innovation process imply a persistent distribution of heterogeneous firms. Second …-dependent stochastic innovation process. …

This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation … innovation. Against the background of a changing global economy, the purpose of the paper is to make an overview over the role … and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic …