'Innovation is the ability to take new ideas and translate them into commercial outcomes by using new processes …, products or services in a way that is better and faster than the competition' (Nedis & Byler, 2009). Innovation is considered … subject of policy intervention and regional development. The understanding of what innovation is has evolved in the past …

effective innovation performance. In this paper we develop a conceptual model of direct and moderated network effects on a firm …’s innovation. We test this model on a large sample of small and medium-sized firms from a posttransitional and developed economy …. We show that absorptive capacity moderates the relationship between networks and innovation outcomes, but with some …

The present paper analyses the perception of innovation of individuals in Spain and the factors associated with it … innovation perception, gender, age, educational level, and other socioeconomic and technical variables. The aim of this paper is … to determine the perception of innovation, in its different aspects, of Spanish people. To this end, several ordered …