This paper looks at the link between inter-regional mobility, innovation and firms' behavioural heterogeneity in their … firm-level data (providing information on firms' innovation inputs and behaviour) a robust identification strategy makes it … possible to shed new light on the geographical mobility-innovation nexus. The analysis of English firms suggests that firm …

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature. Existing studies have failed to reach a …’ social capital – based on weak ties – can be identified as the key driver of the process of innovation while ‘bonding’ social … capital is shown to be negative for innovation. Instrumental variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal …

The debate on Russia’s innovation performance has paid little attention to the role of geography. This paper addresses … this gap by applying an ‘augmented’ regional knowledge function approach to examine the territorial dynamics of innovation … firms play a fundamental role as ‘global knowledge pipelines’. Different territorial dynamics of innovation are observed in …

This paper looks at the genesis of innovation in the United States from a territorial perspective. The analysis aims to … disentangle the impact of local R&D expenditure from other contextual conditions supportive of the process of innovation …. Particular emphasis is devoted to the role of socio-economic factors and systems of innovation conditions (‘social filter …

This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is … contrast, innovation is much more dependent on a combination of good local socioeconomic structures and investment in science …