knowledge emerging from diverse external sources. Different research traditions have stressed both formal (FSK) and informal … sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance drivers. Thus, context-led views such as the innovative milieux approach …, innovation systems literature and the knowledge spillover view have tended to focus on diverse, informal and location …

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 …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

Firms productivity is crucially influenced by knowledge spillovers generated either by other firms located nearby or by … efficiency-enhancing knowledge diffusion, which can be exploited by local firms to extract relevant information on consumer …

When we consider knowledge economy as the top level of innovative economical development and the basis for the … scientific knowledge, there is a need to make a favorable environment that might provide its efficient function. Knowledge …, knowledge and high technologies production as well as production of innovations and qualitative services. The human capital has …

This paper presents a new framework for modeling the fine microstructure of knowledge creation dynamics. Our focus is … on the creation of working nowledge used in innovation, for example, the knowledge used by a researcher in the economics … operational structure of working knowledge? How are specific new ideas, research papers, and patents created by a research worker …