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 … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

fact that knowledge is commonly tied to personal capabilities; it has a clear geographical component. In the case of … knowledge-intensive services (KIS) most of analyses come to the same conclusion: distance is particularly relevant when … knowledge (mainly of a tacit type) is diffused. Starting from this premise, a burgeoning literature on the contribution of those …

clusters to better coach them. The theoretical ground for our artefact lays in the intersection between the body of knowledge …

This paper deals with the relationship between knowledge, innovation and regional growth. The study is carried out …