innovation biographies. …

The Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs seeks to use knowledge and innovation in the context of the European Research … Area (ERA). To build the ERA the European Union (EU) implements – amongst others - regional innovation policy. Ample … scientific publications have investigated how innovation drives regional dynamics. Therefore, we assess the goals of European …

A merger between two innovation competitors is often suspected to reduce the variety of heterogeneous entities which … of “diversity” can be detrimental to innovation because it reduces the number of independent sources for possible future …

, innovation. This paper examines conceptually the role of proximity between actors for cooperation activities. Using theories and …

The paper focuses on the territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics as one of the driving forces for innovation … ongoing restructuring of global value chains and the changes in the organization of innovation ‘combinatorial knowledge … dynamics’ gain a more prominent role in innovation. Firms are facing an increasing need to combine heterogeneous knowledge …

In recent years, innovation processes involve more heterogenous actors inside and outside the firm. Little is known … however about the spatial impact of this organisational decomposition of innovation processes (ODIP): Does it lead to a … geographical dispersion of innovation activities as well? Furthermore, which parts of the innovation process are carried out …

and 2008 were analyzed in regard to the question to what extent and how the agencies assessed the innovation effects of … mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into … account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …