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

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 …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm’s employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm’s foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

-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 …

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 …

factors for innovation at the local level, based on micro survey information from firms. In seeking for prominent explanatory … variables for entrepreneurial innovation in various classes of European cities, a particular multivariate method - i.e., Regime … generates a wide range of interesting empirical results on innovation factors in European cities. …