cover all the costs, including the costs of investment and innovation, to operate in an effective way, to "balance … sustainability of being viable, competitive in wider meaning: future orientation, ability to renew (development, imitation, synthesis …

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 …

opportunity to lay the foundations of a new governance to generate regional innovation systems that are more coordinated … relations, but also policies from different competence fields (e.g. innovation, education, employment, environment, etc.). The … from the combination of the traditional ones in innovation, education, employment policies. In the first chapter, an …

-intensive services (KIS) in the European regions. For so doing we employ the data provided by the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS …) 2009. This database provides information on the innovation performance across 194 regions of the European Union and Norway …There is a rich debate in the innovation literature about to what extent innovation has become an international (or …

The Baltic Sea region is one of the most socially, economically and technologically developed regions in the world. The … crisis; and has high unemployment and poverty rates. One of the most prosperous and sustainable macro-regions in the world is … which factors have promoted or hampered the growth of the regions (at NUTS3 level) of Baltic countries; and what areas of …

innovation and entrepreneurship. In these studies universities are seen as important actors within regional innovation systems …