and innovation systems. We look at both conceptual and empirical approaches that figure prominently in scholarly work on … regional innovation systems. Based on a critical review and discussion of the literature we shed light on a large number and … variety of barriers and weaknesses that may hamper regional innovation and industrial change. It is shown in this paper that …

Recent literature on firm innovation emphasize the importance of combinations of different knowledge sources in … innovation processes. Moreover, the literature on firm collaboration has evolved stepwise: (1) knowledge networks tend to be … important. By using data from a survey on innovation and collaboration of 636 firms in the county of Jönköping, Sweden, we find …

RÉSUMÉ :L’objectif de cet article est le classement des régions européennes en fonction de leur niveaud’innovation … indicateurs d’innovation classiques, d’un outil destatistique descriptive multivariée :l’Analyse en Composantes Principales (ACP … matière d’innovation. Les résultats obtenuspour chacune des périodes étudiées sont cohérents avec d’autres études menées sur …

This paper analyses the aspects of spatial economics that deals with innovation, regional specialization and dynamic … systems of functional regions and in particular the contributions made by the economist Börje Johansson. The innovation aspect … consists of innovation networks, knowledge sources and knowledge sinks, cost and innovation of product characteristics and …

and product innovation for a sample of Irish firms. The key contribution is to provide an empirical test of the relative … effects on the probability of innovation, while engaging in both national and international interaction has no effect. The … findings support hypotheses on the importance of both geographically proximate and distant interaction for innovation, though …

This paper introduces a new measure to test whether more frequent interaction has a positive effect on innovation by … increases innovation likelihood, with the probability increasing at a diminishing rate. Distant interaction is more valuable …