The regional landscape in Europe has changed during the last decades. After a period of conversion, processes of …

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 …

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 …

local spillovers. In particular, the paradigmatic jump in interpreting regional innovation processes lies in a conceptual … framework interpreting not a single phase of the innovation process, but the different modes of performing the different phases … of the innovation process, highlighting the context conditions (internal and external to the region) that accompany each …

Innovation performance seems to rely on efficiently integrating and extending different pieces of various types of … 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 …

drivers of that competitiveness, especially if considering the impact on economic development and social progress. Innovation … regions' innovativeness in different European regions and to evaluate the nature of the innovation process and the … competitiveness of a region is reflected in its innovation capacity or innovation dynamic. The literature review regarding regions …