particular relevance for policymakers designing regional development strategies around innovation issues: is it more important to … focus on attracting creatives through "place investments" so that potentials for innovation are boosted, or to make sure …

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 …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

initiatives within an effective food chain management. By utilizing basic concepts of innovation management techniques (IMTs), and … developing an innovative management (M.I.) process we have applied innovation in two enterprises of the same traditional food … chain for a three year period and evaluated the results based on the 12 different parameters developed by the innovation …

innovation efficiency process. The influence of the potential and realized absorptive capacity on new products is significant and … interesting to extend the research to another innovation metrics as new organizational methods, new processes, new designs or new … decision for the firm's innovation. Companies must be conscious that while suppliers and customers' cooperation are relevant …

as follows: • Evaluation of the impact of public R&D support on innovation in selected European countries; • Identifying … whether EU research and innovation programs have industrydriven priorities and address societal challenges, how they impact … innovation and to what extent SMEs are involved in these programs; • Evaluation of the advancement in the construction of …

. Interest is affecting now the works dedicated to innovation process, links between science and industry, relations between … users and producers or sub-contractors, national systems of innovation, innovative milieus, about also local labour markets …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative …