innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

A review of the types of Innovation System identified in the literature points to different models. Besides the very … well-known National, Regional, Local, sectorial, and technological innovation systems, combinations of the previous can be … identified, proposing sub-models such as National Open Innovation Systems, Regional Open Innovation System, as well as Regional …

entrepreneurial activity in innovation and regional growth within a spatial semi-endogenous growth model in the spirit of Jones (1995 …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …

studying whether the relative regional importance of Mittelstand firms has an effect on regional innovation performance. Using …

We investigate how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant … innovation, we expect that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new … technology. However, we also expect that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often …