competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting …

, which will be analyzed in another paper, intend to explain technological trajectories, absorptive capacity and learning … processes. These concepts are essential to understand the innovation in the economy and in the neo-schumpeterian thinking. …

greatest explosion of financial innovation the world had ever seen. Financial fragility grew until the economy collapsed into … the global financial crisis. At the same time, we saw that much (or even most) of the financial innovation was directed … attention to increasing funding of the innovation process. For that reason, we will look not only to Minsky’s ideas on the …

the more institutionalized finance allocation in credit-based systems would give them an advantage in cumulative learning … de-linked the performance of firms on the financial markets from the determinants of firm-level growth and innovation …, financialization has contributed to compress and somewhat degrade the specific properties of the finance-innovation nexus of both …

Technological changes are understood as part of a learning process. Even if a share of knowledge is built outside … technological trajectories, absorptive capacity and learning process. After reading both parts (1 and 2), it is clear the importance …

to provide theoretical and empirical perspectives on innovation which give a greater role to the demand-side aspect of … innovation. The main question is how can policy make enterprises more willing to innovate? This task is fulfilled by identifying … what we consider the central or most salient aspect of a demand-side innovation- driven economy, which is the small and …

The innovation systems (IS) approach — developed by Richard Nelson, Christopher Freeman and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, amongst … others — has become perhaps the dominant approach in the academic literature for the study of innovation. It has also exerted …

Early stage innovation can benefit from cooperative pooling of distributed information and other innovation resources … in order to discover entrepreneurial opportunities (what Allen and Potts (2016) call the ‘innovation commons'). The … innovation commons is a private ordering, but social welfare losses arise when innovation commons fail to form, or are small and …