Economic research on innovation has long discussed which policy instruments best foster innovativeness in individuals … and organizations. One of the instruments easily accessible to policy-makers is innovation contests; however, there is … analyzing the effects of two different innovation contests on subjects ́innovativeness: a prize for the aggregate innovativeness …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …