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

have influenced the direction of innovation over the last four decades. Our findings suggest that the demography of …

The procurement of an innovation involves motivating a research effort to generate a new idea and then implementing … innovation is above a certain threshold, and handicaps the innovator in contract allocation when the value of innovation is below … that threshold. A monetary prize is employed as an additional incentive but only when the value of innovation is …

, amongst others, upon two innovation indicators, the volume of Patent applications and the number of Scientific journal …

The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation … activities. It is focused on R&D in the business sector as a crucial part of the innovation system. R&D expenditure can be seen … as the main precondition of successful innovation. However, the successful transformation of R&D investment into …