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 …

knowledge base complexity and the international geography of innovation with particular emphasis on understanding catch … empirical results also offer some theoretical insights about the dynamics of geographical patterns of innovation. In the last …

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 …

We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The … distinguishing two dimensions of regulation, i.e. design and intensity, and their effects on innovation. The patent data is based on …

The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

the area of innovation by helping to assess the sustainability for businesses of new business models in an area …

representative micro dataset derived from pooling two waves of Community Innovation Survey in the Czech Republic, we quantitatively … innovation milieu, significantly boost the innovativeness of firms operating in that region, while several aspects of … differences mediate impact of firm-level predictors, namely the age of firms. Younger firms benefit from the innovation milieu …

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 …