'Innovation is the ability to take new ideas and translate them into commercial outcomes by using new processes …, products or services in a way that is better and faster than the competition' (Nedis & Byler, 2009). Innovation is considered … subject of policy intervention and regional development. The understanding of what innovation is has evolved in the past …

growth based on knowledge and innovation. Poland and its regions are in a specific socio-economical position characterized by … develop and maintain a competitive advantage is to trigger knowledge- and innovation-based entrepreneurship. Cohesion policy … funds open up great opportunities for innovation. Nowadays, when the programming period 2007 - 2013 came to an end, it is …

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 …

Scenario planning is a tool that can be used to project and promote innovation activities in organizations. The more … disruptive the innovation is, the more beneficial effects will be expected to come out of utilizing a scenario planning process …. This planning approach may be considered when discussing innovation in relation to regional development as well as in …

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 …

The paper focuses on quantitative assessment of the innovation's role in explaining regional disparities and … convergence in Europe. The empirical part of the study bases on the regional GDP pc and innovation indicators on the EU-27 NUTS2 … level regions. Based on the selected set of initial innovation indicators for the 262 EU NUTS2 level regions and using the …