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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Although conceptual support for the relevance of social capital as an antecedent of innovation has received much … general terms, a linear positive relationship among some components of social capital and innovation. Yet some studies also … on the social network theory of innovation, this paper seeks to contribute some insights to this stream of research by …

Innovative capacity has a decisive and crucial role in determining who is prospering in the global arena. Innovation is … efficiency, its national culture, and its innovation framework. This paper reflects upon the factors that influence national … innovative capacity, based on the European Innovation Scoreboard database. The aim is to reflect and evaluate the factors with …