Current innovation policy is the result of decades of research about the nature and role of innovation in economic … growth. Such investigation has contributed to redesign our knowledge not only on the role played by innovation in economic … development but also about the relationship between innovation and territory. Although the huge literature examining the …

the area of innovation by helping to assess the sustainability for businesses of new business models in an area …

use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …

entrepreneurial activity in innovation and regional growth within a spatial semi-endogenous growth model in the spirit of Jones (1995 …

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 …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …