4 Background This paper summarises a grant proposal to the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). The aim of … knowledge workers are key-persons in the innovation system, and second that we know surprisingly little about what is important … and industry labs belong to the innovation system. Second, a commercial environment, entrepreneurs and companies are …

relying exclusively on labour mobility, large firms involved in innovation activity are developing novel employment practices …

market (‘innovation’) and indicators of skills of employees (‘knowledge workers’). Using econometric analysis, we relate the … three factors ‘R&D’, ‘innovation’ and ‘knowledge workers’ to regional economic growth. We conclude that the factors … ‘innovation’ and ‘knowledge workers’ are more profoundly related to urban employment and productivity growth than the R …

, reveals students, capable of innovation activity for their further deep study of innovation practice, transfers the moment of … novation forming with further discussion the possibility of novation realization as an innovation into the educational process …, develops maximum person - independent procedures of innovation work groups forming a nd expert communities for evaluation of …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

(On the book by B. Milner and T. Orlova "Organization of Innovation: Horizontal Communication and Management") The …

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 …

decisions and bring innovation to the business, are convincing more and more entrepreneurs to implement this solution. The … of the information with state administrative structures datas that have to be available to business clusters in order to … administrative structures underlying the way that this adoption would support the activity of innovative and creative clusters. …