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

The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over the last two decades, produced various … firms located throughout the country, and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation …. In our paper, innovation is used as a major contributor to the policy evaluation process referred to above. To provide a …

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …

In recent decades there have been an enormous number of studies about innovation systems, partly inspired by a great … development strategies. Despite different perspectives, most studies highlight knowledge creation and innovation as the major … drivers of change and growth. This consensus disappears, however, as soon as the complexity of innovation and knowledge are …

Portuguese strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy have, over the past two decades, produced various … firms' contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts. For the purpose of this paper, innovation … the present performance of Portuguese firms located throughout the country and to explore those innovation determinants …

Knowledge triggers regional growth. Evidence suggests that skilled labour force concentrates in islands of innovation … increasing returns to knowledge, favouring the emergence of islands of innovation; regions with a high endowment of cognitive …

of tourism development, in particular those related to the role of innovation and human resources. The final section …Editorial Introduction -- Part I: Socio-Economic Impacts of Tourism -- Part II: Innovation and Competitiveness in …

Preface -- Part A: Knowledge and Innovation in Space -- Part B: Human Capital and Regional Growth -- Part C: Spatial … evolution or global change. In the past decade, an avalanche of new regional economic growth and innovation models has been put …

Growth -- Part III: The Role of Public Policies in Fostering Innovation, Competitiveness and Growth … driven by knowledge and innovation. It offers novel empirical evidence on the underlying factors of the growth performance of … innovation in the development strategies of the dynamic growth regions? What are the risks and consequences of dynamic growth on …

assets and characteristics comprising inter alia creativity, knowledge, innovation forces and entrepreneurship. Access to and … perspective to help cultivate creativity, human capital development and innovation as well as entrepreneurial activity, with a …