districts) for the period 1976 to 2002. Obviously there is an increasing concentration of “white collar” employees relative to …

This paper examines the diversity of the types of links of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance …, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation performance, in particular with respect to innovations that are new to …

much of the cumulative innovation literature. When the research abilities of the firms differ, either the high ability firm …

an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …

variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining …The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …

localization can be expressed in terms of absolute and relative concentration and specialization measures. This helps understand …

and regions in the EU-15 since 1980. Localization, which nests concentration and specialization, is measured by a Theil …