cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster "potentiates", by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these …Criticisms vis-à-vis cluster policy are numerous, often confusing and really unhelpful; while some authors … refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues, impacts and implications of the innovation clusters policy. To do this …

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 way firms finance their investments can potentially explain the heterogeneity of firms in terms of their innovation … innovativeness. By applying a cluster analysis to group firms using information on their financing decisions, we investigate the link … between finance and innovation of EU firms. We identify seven financing clusters to show that the degree of innovativeness …