– proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation … these measures of innovation intensity and MFP growth. Innovation-specific policies such as R&D tax incentives, direct … forthcoming. A pervasive theme from the analysis is the importance of coupling policies aimed at encouraging innovation or …

In the past two decades, clusters have received widespread attention as an instrument for enabling firms to overcome … throughout time. In the 21st century a lot of work has been done towards the system approach of clusters and the policies that … organizational structure that will allow them to support the growth and spread of innovation by, for example, participating in a …

A common theory in current innovation literature, and one that this paper supports, is that spatially defined industry … clusters provide incubation for ‘competitive advantage’. It is the heightened interaction between ‘actors’, the intense … vertical integration and concentration of resources that creates enclaves of innovation within which activity is leveraged in …

cluster as opposed to those in non-cluster environments. The general claim is that clusters provide highly productive …

In today?s global economy innovation is presented as the key to economic development and sustainability. Only through … innovation can companies ensure their progress and their place in the market and can become strong enough to survive and prosper …. By creating a favourable environment for innovation, countries and regions can facilitate their industries and companies …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

(On the book by B. Milner and T. Orlova "Organization of Innovation: Horizontal Communication and Management") The …

to provide theoretical and empirical perspectives on innovation which give a greater role to the demand-side aspect of … innovation. The main question is how can policy make enterprises more willing to innovate? This task is fulfilled by identifying … what we consider the central or most salient aspect of a demand-side innovation-driven economy, which is the small and …