the creation of innovation or interpret regional development forms based on innovative activities inside a region. However …, many researchers suggest that businesses instead of regions are those that produce innovation, combining in their research … innovation in less developed regional business ecosystems, focusing on the integration of business’ strategy, technology and …

externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm … agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation. …

This paper presents evidence on the spatial distribution and effects of urban agglomeration on firm innovation. It uses … a unique dataset that consistently defines city boundaries and identifies firms' innovation-related activities across 25 … developing countries in Asia. We find firm innovation to be highly concentrated at the city level. We also find substantial gains …

innovation activity. …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

The paper focuses on the concept of clusters, which have become an important element of innovation systems at the …

constant relative risk aversion preferences, there are negative externalities in innovation, and there are three kinds of …

constraints on the translation of innovation into economic growth. The paper suggests that policies targeted primarily on the …

We examine how financial market development affects technological innovation. Using a large data set that includes 32 … development of equity markets and credit markets affects technological innovation. We show that industries that are more dependent … on external finance and that are more high-tech intensive exhibit a disproportionally higher innovation level in …