innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting …Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation … technological development. The third step was an assessment of CEECs innovation and R&D policies, and their linkages with …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers …

South Australia is a small economy that faces a fundamental need to re-shape its approach to innovation. The … necessitates a re-think about how innovation happens and how the respective actors within an economy interact and engage with each … other. In effect, innovation relies on intersections between people, knowledge, information sharing, ideas, financial and …

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical … of these issues the concept of a regional innovation system is presented in some detail and an overview of results from … recent research on regional innovation systems is given. The paper then discusses basic policy options and names a number of …

importance to the study of the innovation process, only recently research has started to attempt to trace researchers …' intersectoral mobility. When looking for ways to improve the transfers from science to innovation, most of the attention in the … universities to innovation based growth, should take a long-term perspective for developing an industry-science eco …

summarizes key findings from the previous research papers on the role of clusters in the New Growth Path (MS47) and on a new … policy implications from this research. For clusters, these implications address both general practices of cluster …