, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature due to the lack of consensus on the most … variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal links between social capital and innovation, suggesting that …

Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical … literature by combining in one model R&D, spillovers, and innovation systems approaches. A multiple regression analysis is …

This article 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 …

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 …