Measuring the innovation performance of regions or nations has been repeatedly done in the literature. What is missing … in the literature is a discussion of what innovation performance of a region means. How do regions or nations contribute … really to the innovation output of firms? And how can this contribution be investigated in an empirically sound way? We argue …

The focus of this study is on regional knowledge production activities in Europe, with special emphasis on the … measured in terms of patent counts at the regional level in the time period 1998-2008, using patents applied at the European … Patent Office (EPO). The independent variables include an agglomeration index, measured in terms of population density, and …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from … technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …