The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

economic vitality caused by investments in domestic technology innovation in the formerly integrated national economy, national … innovation Along with the new innovation park infrastructure, the most important job creation strategy that the EDA could … implement is creating the new capital market infrastructure that targets investments to regional innovation opportunities. This …

The geography of innovation describes the importance of proximity and location to innovative activity. As part of what … sufficiently so that the discussion can be organized around certain stylized and commonly accepted facts: • Innovation is spatially …, and not easily amenable to measurement. • Local universities are necessary but not sufficient for innovation. • Innovation …

their ability to convert local academic research into local commercial innovation. We develop and test the hypothesis that … the presence of a large, local, R&D-intensive firm an anchor tenant enhances the regional innovation system such that …