force for economic growth and welfare as well as a key factor in competitiveness. Therefore, innovation growth is seen as a … mechanism to influence economic growth, and therefore firms capable of increasing their innovation potential benefit from … machinery industry. Nothing has received as much attention as innovation, which has been pinpointed as the fundamental driving …

This paper deals with the relationship between knowledge, innovation and regional growth. The study is carried out … share of innovative ...firms plays a more relevant role in explaining regional growth than R&D expenditures. Further, inward … FDI turns out to be a robust growth determinant. Our results also suggest that the effects induced by these variables are …

development of innovation on the local level in the former centrally planned countries. The purpose of this paper is to highlight … the strong links between the institutional and organizational decentralization and development of innovation on the local … innovation. To justify our approach, we combine the institutional approach and the evolutionary approach to explain the formation …

photovoltaic clusters' innovation growth pattern, in so far as they can be revealed by bibliometric indicators. In order to select … in regional clusters. This challenge is even greater for its critically important innovation activities, including … approach of 'paper trail' of the industry's innovation process as revealed in patents and scientific publications. By using …

growth based on knowledge and innovation. Poland and its regions are in a specific socio-economical position characterized by … develop and maintain a competitive advantage is to trigger knowledge- and innovation-based entrepreneurship. Cohesion policy … funds open up great opportunities for innovation. Nowadays, when the programming period 2007 - 2013 came to an end, it is …

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 role of universities for the innovation process of countries or regions had been widely explored. In lagged regions … analyses innovation and especially the interaction of firms with universities and research institutes, as strategy to face the … low internal investment capacity in innovation. Our focus is the ultra-peripheral region of Brazilian Amazon and it is …

perspectives of entrepreneurship and innovation. However, despite many common touching grounds these strands of research are rarely … conceptually intertwined. Research on the role of the academia within the innovation process of knowledge-based economies highlight …, entrepreneurial experience, re-innovation processes etc.) is added by yet others within the network. The presented concept describes …

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey … (CIS) to provide empirical evidences to test our argument concerning this interrelation between innovation, productivity …

The paper focuses on quantitative assessment of the innovation's role in explaining regional disparities and … convergence in Europe. The empirical part of the study bases on the regional GDP pc and innovation indicators on the EU-27 NUTS2 … level regions. Based on the selected set of initial innovation indicators for the 262 EU NUTS2 level regions and using the …