countries in innovation. In order to assume new responsibilities and to prepare for the competition with other European … development; it is about innovation, without which competitiveness is unthinkable. Romania is part of the "catching-up" group of … analyze the situation of innovation at EUlevel and to see at what chapters our authorities must to work harder to equalize the …

transition economy context but which is of particular importance for the modernization of the transition economies: knowledge … relationships (networks) of the firms in question and how they are used for knowledge acquisition. We find that overall Romania … engaging in virtually no collaboration in the area of innovation, and others engaging quite intensively with academic partners …

firms in question and how they are used for knowledge acquisition, and barriers to innovation. We find that overall Poland … transition economy context but which is of particular importance for the modernization of the transition economies: knowledge … National Innovation System, with particular attention devoted to the question of finance and policy initiatives. We then turn …

knowledge acquisition, and barriers to innovation and development. In spite of a relative lack of government support, we find … transition economy context but which is of particular importance for the modernization of the transition economies: knowledge …

, we investigate how the emergence of fintech start-ups and their financing is shaped by new regional knowledge creation …. While we find that knowledge generated in the IT sector is much more salient for fostering new fintech start-ups than … knowledge generated in the financial services sector, we also find an increasing (decreasing) importance of new knowledge …

positively related to innovation activity. More importantly, this relationship depends on the mode of innovation, where companies … owners affect whether or not absorptive capacity can mediate between external knowledge and firm-level innovativeness. …

accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3 … arose through agglomeration economies and localized knowledge spillovers. To support this claim, we provide evidence … the same society had higher similarity in patenting, suggesting that social networks facilitated spatial knowledge …

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …

' access to new and better capital goods depends on the knowledge gap, i.e., the wedge between the firm's technical knowledge … knowledge diffusion subsequently leading to declining business dynamism. Our findings indicate that only when knowledge … markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …