innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies. In this column, the organization discusses the definition of innovation economics with …. The authors' reference the topic of innovation economics covered in a Business Week article, published earlier this fall …

In his recent discussion of regional innovation systems (RIS), Philip Cooke outlines the two starkly different … interpretations of regional innovation systems. (Regional Innovation Systems, Asymmetric Knowledge and the Legacies of Learning, Draft … 2007). He notes in his review, "Clearly, there are two kinds of regional innovation occurring in these examples. The first …

Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting … competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …

conclusively their structural effects on regional innovation networks. Focusing on the French cluster policy during the period 2005 …-2010, this study aims at evaluating how cluster policies influence the structure of local innovation networks following network … topologies that may be beneficial for regional innovation. Based on a panel data of four periods and 94 NUTS3 French regions, we …

The article evaluates support of innovation in four countries - Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. It … concentrates on creation of regional innovation strategies in these countries and compares the proposed measures to the theoretical … background. The paper has two main parts - theoretical background contains examples and reasons for innovation support as well as …

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 …

This paper explores the links between open innovation and the emergence of a phoenix industry - the low carbon vehicles … innovation" approaches in driving the sector, for example noting that smaller firms can sometimes innovate more quickly …

impact on the U.S. innovation system, catalyzing technology clusters around the country with accompanying increases in high …. In the aggregate, wartime R&D permanently changed the trajectory of U.S. innovation in the direction of funded …