In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

academic research is positively correlated with firms' innovation at the geographical level. There are two reasons that are …

regional innovation and the importance of local inputs in innovative performance. However, most of the studies use data from … innovation measured by patents, and, similarly, a relation between patenting activity of the firms and local academic research …. With the purpose of evaluate which externality is more important to innovation in Brazilian regions, marshallian or …

This paper presents conceptual and empirical reasons for moving from a thematically-regionally neutral innovation … policy to a thematically and regionally focused innovation policy, in line with the smart specialization approach of the new … cohesion policy framework. The paper starts by claiming that the pathways towards innovation and modernization are …

local spillovers. In particular, the paradigmatic jump in interpreting regional innovation processes lies in a conceptual … framework interpreting not a single phase of the innovation process, but the different modes of performing the different phases … of the innovation process, highlighting the context conditions (internal and external to the region) that accompany each …

contribution of technological innovation to environmental, social and economic development of an agricultural activity. The system …