Benchmarking analysis facilitates the formulation of competitiveness and innovation strategies. It also helps in the …

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 …

particular relevance for policymakers designing regional development strategies around innovation issues: is it more important to … focus on attracting creatives through "place investments" so that potentials for innovation are boosted, or to make sure …

A review of the types of Innovation System identified in the literature points to different models. Besides the very … well-known National, Regional, Local, sectorial, and technological innovation systems, combinations of the previous can be … identified, proposing sub-models such as National Open Innovation Systems, Regional Open Innovation System, as well as Regional …

We investigate how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant … innovation, we expect that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new … technology. However, we also expect that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often …