the most controversial themes in the research of innovation systems, regional networks and new economic geography. While … contexts when knowledge is novel and the innovation endeavor is more radical while this effect is less pronounced for projects …

and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German …

A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper … openness on a sectoral level. -- R&D intensity ; Innovation ; Real Exchange Rate ; Volatility ; Exports ; OECD-Countries …

knowledge spillovers, as they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the … linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in … of respective institutions within innovation networks thereby reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do …

is, however, different for regions at different efficiency levels. -- Efficiency ; innovation ; spillovers ; patents …

In the past decades the role of profit sharing schemes (PSS) as a way to foster innovation in a principal-agent context …, and more generally of innovation in economic growth, have been widely acknowledged and studied. However, surprisingly … innovation in a pure knowledge economy: a "patent box" incentive and a tax incentive on compensation earned by agents as PSS. A …