This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic … as well as less and more developed countries are studied separately. The results confirm the effect of innovation output … on productivity for more developed countries. Simultaneously, innovation output is found to have negative impacts on …

substantiates this claim showing that collaborative R&D subsidies impact regions' innovation growth when providing access to related … variety and embedding regions into central positions in cross-regional knowledge networks. …

It has been repeatedly shown that universities and public research institutes contribute to local innovation generation … empirical examinations are missing. We analyse the impact of universities and public research on regional innovation output … innovation generators or innovation facilitators. All analyses are conducted on German data. …

The paper contributes to the debate on how to measure regions' innovation performance. On the basis of the concept of … regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global … measures. We argue for the use of a robust shared-input DEA-model to estimate regions' innovation efficiency in a global manner …

the regional growth dynamics of economic, research, innovation and educational activities affect each other … instantaneously and over time in five different industries. Referring to the type of industry and its knowledge base, expectations are … derived on how industry-specific growth processes unfold. Knowledge on the causal relations among the various activities in …

In the literature there is a controversy about the relevance of the spatial dimension in innovation collaboration. We … innovation projects. To this end, we introduce a social-psychological approach to the field of economic geography. The empirical … part is a longitudinal study of 49 inter-organisational innovation groups in Germany. We find that the share of regional …

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

Measuring the innovation performance of regions or nations has been repeatedly done in the literature. What is missing … in the literature is a discussion of what innovation performance of a region means. How do regions or nations contribute … really to the innovation output of firms? And how can this contribution be investigated in an empirically sound way? We argue …