and evolution of the system of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS). This chapter presents the results of a … financial, personnel, and material potential of the agrarian knowledge and innovation sector. Bulgarian AKIS demonstrates low … sharing of knowledge and innovations, slow and uneven application of modern technologies, varieties, production and management …

general. While studies on market oriented product development have identified several general dimensions of market knowledge … used in product innovation, the nature of market knowledge that is specifically important in the chemical industry remains … unclear. Because firm-relevant knowledge resources are increasingly seen as being industry specific, filling this gap becomes …

clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … efforts linking the most perspective localized industries (ecosystems). The development of clusters has been determined as one …

effective knowledge exchange between regional actors, the latter are considered to provide regional systems with knowledge … diverse to their knowledge base. Our empirical analysis of 18 German regional innovation networks highlights the importance of … public research organizations for inter-regional knowledge exchange. The broker and gatekeeper function of public research …

regions with less developed innovation capacities as it fosters cooperation and knowledge transfer, which is known to be …