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 … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …

sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance drivers. Thus, context-led views such as the innovative milieux approach …, innovation systems literature and the knowledge spillover view have tended to focus on diverse, informal and location …-facilitated sources of knowledge. Meanwhile, firm-led perspectives such as the innovator networks approach and the open innovation model …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

recognized in the literature that academic research is an important source of new knowledge to the innovative efforts of the … academic research is positively correlated with firms' innovation at the geographical level. There are two reasons that are … pointed out for this correlation. First, there are many ways in which knowledge generated by academic research can spill over …

The focus of this study is on regional knowledge production activities in Europe, with special emphasis on the … the recent past, regional knowledge production activities, on the one hand, still remain geographically bounded; on the … other hand, knowledge production activities have become increasingly interwoven and internationalized, emphasizing the …

This paper investigates the embeddedness of European regions in different types of inter-regional knowledge networks … dimension in regional knowledge production activities. The results reveal conspicuous differences between the knowledge networks … spillover effects of region-external factors on centrality in the co-publication network. Thus, the distinctive knowledge …

knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) to regional innovation has emerged. Most of these papers adopt a national …There is a rich debate in the innovation literature about to what extent innovation has become an international (or … fact that knowledge is commonly tied to personal capabilities; it has a clear geographical component. In the case of …

innovation process, namely knowledge networks and context costs, special dimensions that we associate with the efficiency of … activities associated with the development of its innovation process. Innovation is a highly complex process, very contingent and … onerously demanding. With innovation as a key source of high economic performance, it is important to understand to what extent …