generates very poor gross domestic products. To reverse this trend, African countries must build innovation-based economies …

occupations are also a fundamental, but overlooked, driver of innovation. Theory also suggests cities are important for both … the links between creative industries, occupations, cities and innovation at the firm level. This paper addresses this gap … driver of innovation. We find no support for the hypothesis that urban creative industries firms are particularly innovative …

competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting …

United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation ? A model is introduced in which … equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The …

's Network held in Campinas (Brazil), the authors carried out an initial exploratory study on sources of learning and … accumulating knowledge for innovation in Argentine auto parts businesses in the immediate aftermath of the crisis (2002-2006). As a … result of this analysis, we created a typology of firms according to the sources of learning and knowledge accumulation. A …

processes of learning and knowledge accumulation and the related innovation performance. Finally, we present the main … required skills and methods of learning processes in the automakers and auto parts suppliers. The local automakers permanently …, the overall objective of this work is to investigate in an exploratory way, sources and forms of learning and the …

sample of 25 OECD countries from 1988-2007. Controlling for a wide range of innovation predictors, we report that governance …-than-average per-capita GDP, governance scores and economic openness. Secondly, the relationship between market power and innovation … power tends to have an offsetting effect that weakens the positive relationship between governance and innovation. These …