consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building … on a recently developed cross sectional-time series data set of US innovation, private and university research and high …

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …