In the past two decades, clusters have received widespread attention as an instrument for enabling firms to overcome … throughout time. In the 21st century a lot of work has been done towards the system approach of clusters and the policies that … organizational structure that will allow them to support the growth and spread of innovation by, for example, participating in a …

A common theory in current innovation literature, and one that this paper supports, is that spatially defined industry … clusters provide incubation for ‘competitive advantage’. It is the heightened interaction between ‘actors’, the intense … vertical integration and concentration of resources that creates enclaves of innovation within which activity is leveraged in …

cluster as opposed to those in non-cluster environments. The general claim is that clusters provide highly productive …

In today?s global economy innovation is presented as the key to economic development and sustainability. Only through … innovation can companies ensure their progress and their place in the market and can become strong enough to survive and prosper …. By creating a favourable environment for innovation, countries and regions can facilitate their industries and companies …

Evaluation nutzt dabei zuerst Daten des Mannheimer Innovation Panel für die Untersuchung in Deutschland und später Daten der … Community Innovation Survey für die Untersuchung in Europa. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die drei verschiedenen Ebenen der …

We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patentholder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … market. The present scheme forawarding patents cannot judge when the issuance of a patent will lead tothe appropriate balance … between innovation and economic efficiency.Where a patent holder's invention uses an interface with adjacentproducts, the …

Using novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation … group affiliation is particularly important for innovation in industries that rely more on external funding and in groups … knowledge spillovers are not the main driver of innovation in business groups because firms affiliated with the same group do …

, United Kingdom, and United States). Byusing patents and patent citations at the United States Patent and Trademark Office we …

technological innovation performance of Chinese domestic firms as measured by the number of patents awarded to firms in 30 Chinese … patents from patents awarded to universities and research institutes. The dependent variable for regression analysis is the … positive factors in the domestic firms technological innovation performance. While the net impact of FDI on domestic firms …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …