refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues, impacts and implications of the innovation clusters policy. To do this … cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster "potentiates", by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these …

Our study of the regional dimension of China's innovation system has in essence yielded five main findings. Firstly … et al. (2008), quoted in the last OECD report (OECD, 2010). In summary, our regional analysis of the Chinese innovation …

In light of its importance of innovation on the political agenda it is necessary to provide guidance to decision makers … how innovation can effectively be fostered in practice and to disentangle and evaluate the effects of the determinants … suggested by the literature. This thesis focuses on the causal evaluation of three determinants of innovation that can all be …