This book begins with a theoretical examination of regional innovation systems, agglomeration economics and knowledge spillovers, before going on to examine the same concepts within an empirical framework. Special emphasis is given to the importance of proximity in the formation of regional...

The present paper studies the determinants of regional innovation in Europe through a knowledge production function approach that combines factorial analysis and regression. Our dependent variable are the patents while we used initially 21 explanatory variables that were converted--by a factor...

. En este trabajo se han desarrollado distintos modelos econométricos a partir de datos de empresas innovadoras para determinar si las ayudas públicas a la innovación provenientes de la Administración Central, las Comunidades Autónomas y otros organismos (básicamente ayudas europeas)...

Analyzes the innovation capacities of regions,using the Spanish R&D system to establish a typology of regional systems ofinnovation. The study uses a database of a wide range of indicators of elementsfrom science, technology, and innovation thatmake up innovation systemsof 17 autonomous...