This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

The importance of knowledge and innovation in modern economies justifies the in-creasing interest that scholars are … topic into three key conceptual dimensions: (i) knowledge; (ii) inno-vation and (iii) spatial proximity. The major …. -- KIBS ; knowledge ; innovation ; spatial proximity …

-tech countries - such as the U.S. or Germany. Large CSP potential is not a sufficient condition for innovation, only developed …. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … more activity - a pattern closely resembling the R&D support path. R&D and innovation are concentrated in few high …

their own technologies with those of specific key industries. -- Innovation ; Proximity ; Diversity …