Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature due to the lack of consensus on the most … variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal links between social capital and innovation, suggesting that …

A central feature of innovation systems is that innovation arises from interaction between organizational units. This … systems of innovation. …

the genesis of innovation in the regions of the European Union unveils nonlinearities and threshold effects, complex …

This paper looks at foreign Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) investing in the UK and at their impact on the innovation …-level information the paper develops a direct measure of capital inflows at a three-digit industry level. In order to capture innovation … Innovation Survey (CIS). The results suggest that domestic firms active in sectors with greater investments by MNEs show a …

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 …

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 …

innovation. It employs an analysis of three types of embedding: institutional embedding, which is often localized, structural …. It employs results from earlier research in organizational learning and innovation, and in the management of inter …

This article studies density and strength of ties in innovation networks. It combines issues of ‘competence’ with …