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 …

innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …

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 …

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 …

The innovation systems perspective is primarily concerned with the knowledge flow and diffusion and its positive impact … of stimulating economic growth. In innovation systems observed at the regional level there is a tendency of … this paper the relation between innovation and knowledge is illustrated by the high-technology cluster of Campinas. It also …

activities associated with the development of its innovation process. Innovation is a highly complex process, very contingent and … onerously demanding. With innovation as a key source of high economic performance, it is important to understand to what extent … the current economic crisis is to constrain the innovation of firms and thus, the process of wealth creation. The main …