This paper concerns the regional innovation system approach. It deals with the characteristics of three regional …

This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success of firms. We complement the common practice of … availability of highly skilled labor and the proximity to suppliers matters for firms? innovation performance. Interestingly …, location factors obtained from the survey provide a more accurate explanation on how local milieus facilitate innovation. …

results confirm a complementary relationship: using both transfer channels contributes to higher innovation performance. The …

This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success in firms. We complement the common practice of … availability of highly skilled labor and the proximity to suppliers matter for firms' innovation performance. Interestingly …, location factors obtained from the survey provide a more accurate explanation of how local milieus facilitate innovation. …

This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level …. In a third step we investigate the impact of all four categories of cooperation on innovation performance. … in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation …

industries. The study is based on a new data source on subsidized R&D cooperation in Germany, which is presented in detail and …

innovation. However, we do not find a general positive association between collaboration, particularly with biotechnology … companies, and product innovation or between central network positions and product innovation. Therefore, these results require …

This paper examines the diversity of the types of links of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance …, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation performance, in particular with respect to innovations that are new to …

associated with their innovation performance. Using a sample of Flemish firms, we show that there exists considerable … heterogeneity in the type of links to science at the firm level. Overall, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation …