The discussion paper summarizes the results of a workshop that focussed on the institutional foundations of innovation … in China's Business System', 'Recent Changes to Korea's Innovation Governance', 'Standardization and Institutional …

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 …

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …

This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

This paper explores the "black box" of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping … ownership and innovation in increasing the probability of exporting in electronics. Higher levels of skills, managers' education … innovation than the research and development (R&D) to sales ratio. Accordingly, technological effort in electronics in these …

innovation was important, there has been little research on opening up the black box of technology at firm-level in the PRC. This … paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC … using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovation proxy. Drawing on recent literature on innovation …

Relying on a recently developed decomposition framework, this paper explores spatial distribution of innovation … capability in China. It is found that at the regional level, China's inequality in innovation capability increased from 1995 to … inequality in innovation capability. Unbalanced development in high-tech parks exerts a growing explanatory power in driving …