The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

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 …

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 …

We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and … spatial sorting is important. A large portion of the regional differences in firm innovation rates is due to firm … localization on different types of innovation. However, once we include firm fixed effects and distinguish between manufacturing …

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 …

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

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 …

at enhancing the innovation capacities of firms. In turn, increasing in innovation capacities give rise to new business … when significant business model innovation is at stake. Our paper discusses the role played by local institutions while … impediments as they act as innovation intermediaries. We base our research on the study of BRIO, a publicly funded collaborative …

In this paper we empirically analyze the effects of collaboration in innovation with universities on the firm …'s innovative performance. Using data from the Technological Innovation Panel dataset (PITEC for its acronym in Spanish) we have …