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When we consider knowledge economy as the top level of innovative economical development and the basis for the scientific knowledge, there is a need to make a favorable environment that might provide its efficient function. Knowledge economy that follows postindustrial society includes the...
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Regions in Germany are facing an intensifying structural change towards the knowledge economy which is affecting spatial patterns of growth. . Features of such a change know many facets: fierce competition for skilled, mobile and motivated labor force, unemployment of non-qualified labor, longer...
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students per capita and the average number of education years for employees), science and innovation (number of researchers and …
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This paper deals with the relationship between knowledge, innovation and regional growth. The study is carried out … regression can be used for the identi...cation of spatial patterns. In this respect, we ...find a cluster of innovation …
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growth based on knowledge and innovation. Poland and its regions are in a specific socio-economical position characterized by … develop and maintain a competitive advantage is to trigger knowledge- and innovation-based entrepreneurship. Cohesion policy … funds open up great opportunities for innovation. Nowadays, when the programming period 2007 - 2013 came to an end, it is …
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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 …
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The role of universities for the innovation process of countries or regions had been widely explored. In lagged regions … analyses innovation and especially the interaction of firms with universities and research institutes, as strategy to face the … low internal investment capacity in innovation. Our focus is the ultra-peripheral region of Brazilian Amazon and it is …
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This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey … (CIS) to provide empirical evidences to test our argument concerning this interrelation between innovation, productivity …
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The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in rural regions across a number of OECD geographies. It argues that SME creation is especially important for rural economic development and identified lessons for national level...
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