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 … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …

goods represents its national innovation capacity, which is at the same time a key determinant of countries' economic … postulates on which this concept is based, as well as calculating the Innovation capacity index by which it is possible to … predict progress in building innovation capacity of individual countries and mutual comparison with other countries according …