knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and …This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …

-based knowledge spillovers as one such factor (Audretsch and Lehmann 2005, Cassia et al. 2009). This paper extends this approach to … the regional innovator network, promoting region-specific knowledge spillovers. Two data bases are applied. First, patent …

literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable, especially when innovation is concerned. Also, we address the question …

analysis with evidence on innovation slowdown trends, looking at aggregate and compositional trends. We explore the innovation … occurrence. Eventually, we relate productivity and innovation slowdowns deriving tables of trends co-movements, weighted by input …