There is a rich debate in the innovation literature about to what extent innovation has become an international (or … knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) to regional innovation has emerged. Most of these papers adopt a national …-intensive services (KIS) in the European regions. For so doing we employ the data provided by the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … 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 …

Over the past 20 years, the innovation system approach has significantly enhanced our understanding of the innovation … process, stressing its non-linear, systemic, interactive and evolutionary character. The notion of regional innovation systems … explaining regional differences in innovation capacity. RISs can be conceptualised as the set of firms, organisations and …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …

high investments in the areas of innovation and ICT infrastructures. This paper is based on the field work and on the … concerning mainly to technological innovation, neglecting other strategic political areas, such as the policies of governance and … state re-territorialization, the concept of innovation and social innovation, the role of democracy and citizenship and …

, development and innovation. Smart specialization is an important instrument for creating a strategy for the development of … innovation at the state and regional level as well as for defining and building the knowledge-based economy. This paper presents … specialization is helping to focus development of innovation in areas consistent with their endogenous potentials. The aims of the …

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 presents conceptual and empirical reasons for moving from a thematically-regionally neutral innovation … policy to a thematically and regionally focused innovation policy, in line with the smart specialization approach of the new … cohesion policy framework. The paper starts by claiming that the pathways towards innovation and modernization are …