series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

accepted by Kamalini Ramdas, entrepreneurship and innovation.</i> …

, entrepreneurship and innovation.</i> …

yielding a valuable innovation. Finding the complementary piece requires ideas to circulate, which creates appropriation risks … provides new insights into the structure of innovation-driven clusters such as Silicon Valley. <i>This paper was accepted by …

being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally … structure characterised by its extent of specialisation, competition and diversity, to yield innovation and productivity growth … (diversity) and Porter externalities (competition) that have provided alternative explanations for innovation and urban growth …

externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm … agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation. Accepted …

-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by means of the number of patent applications per million inhabitants. Given the geographical … concentration and subsequent diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take … of McDonald's restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a …

recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …