Purpose: Regional development must heavily rely on innovation in order to be competitive and improve the standard of … living of its citizens. However, regional policies regarding innovation is often limited by decelerated decision making … order to continuously evaluate the progress of regions and assess different innovation indicators in shorter periods, a …

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 …

Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting … competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …

. Interest is affecting now the works dedicated to innovation process, links between science and industry, relations between … users and producers or sub-contractors, national systems of innovation, innovative milieus, about also local labour markets …