of industrial policies towards innovation. In line with this trend, the European Union significantly increased its … economic growth. Regional innovation policies display divergent returns according to different institutional conditions and … results show that better performing innovation strategies require the following factors: clear choices of locally congruent …

? Introducing the ‘innovation paradox’ as the main challenge to the West and the notion of ‘knowledge democracy’ as key to …). It is a vital reading for all those questioning what kind of democracy positively impacts innovation as the force whose …, Universities and Research on national innovation policies and is affiliated with the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. He is …

Public investments in innovation and research assets have been recently perceived by policy makers as an effective tool … imbalances can be corrected by market forces and what is, eventually, the role that regional innovation strategies can play … within cohesion programmes. In the second we will discuss the so called ‘regional innovation paradox’ and the problems of …