growth based on knowledge and innovation. Poland and its regions are in a specific socio-economical position characterized by … develop and maintain a competitive advantage is to trigger knowledge- and innovation-based entrepreneurship. Cohesion policy … funds open up great opportunities for innovation. Nowadays, when the programming period 2007 - 2013 came to an end, it is …

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey … (CIS) to provide empirical evidences to test our argument concerning this interrelation between innovation, productivity …

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 quantitative assessment of the innovation's role in explaining regional disparities and … convergence in Europe. The empirical part of the study bases on the regional GDP pc and innovation indicators on the EU-27 NUTS2 … level regions. Based on the selected set of initial innovation indicators for the 262 EU NUTS2 level regions and using the …

national innovation systems. We conclude with a broad consideration of what these may be for the varied and variably developed … business innovation capabilities found across the EU. …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …

articles is innovation. However, the question is whether innovation necessarily leads to growth. The aim of this research is to … investigate the relationship between high growth and innovation. Dataset for this research consists of 181 SMEs from Croatia … existence of innovation in the enterprise is not present among factors that influence growth. This research raises the question …