R&D subsidies on the knowledge-sourcing process increase firms’ innovation outcomes, thus making this policy … intervention effective in promoting innovation. By using panel data from Spanish manufacturing firms, this article presents … Spain also favor more firm innovation, measured by patent applications and new product launches. It is also documented that …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

the regional growth dynamics of economic, research, innovation and educational activities affect each other …

We investigated the role of public funding in cardiovascular device innovation across 31 countries in Europe. We rely … effective for promoting innovation in the medical device industry at the regional level. …

and maintain an innovation advantage in the same fields over time. Our analysis covers 24 disruptive technologies (e.g. AI … growing innovation advantage over non-pioneer regions. This advantage is most pronounced in "super-cluster" regions, which are … leaders in both science and related innovation. These findings highlight the importance of early scientific leadership for …