In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

change: the improvement of best-practices via innovation, and the adoption of practices currently adopted by local or foreign … mostly due to innovation in best-practices (6.67 per cent), while best-practice adoption contributed by a mere 0.04 per cent …. Our findings also indicate that, over the period of our analysis, innovation of best-practices was attributable to …