We investigated the role of public funding in cardiovascular device innovation across 31 countries in Europe. We rely … correlation across regions of Europe in our estimates of the KPF, we investigated the impact of two types of public funding … effective for promoting innovation in the medical device industry at the regional level. …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a; production function; of innovation for European regions …

Since the emergence of the innovation economy paradigm, innovation has been recognised as the key competitive factor … for enterprises and economies alike. In line with this recognition, recent years have seen a plethora of innovation …-existent. Drawing on data from the 2010 Community Innovation Survey, which has been executed among enterprises in 72 sectors over 31 …

framework for the interpretation of the existing relationships between innovation process and research activity in Europe and … economic disparities in Europe have been ascribed to peripherality and/or to a high level of dependence on declining sectors …

R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry explores the science & technology base and the … dynamic performance of the European "system of innovation" in the chemical industry, with particular attention to its … contribution to economic growth through innovation and competitiveness, and its ability to translate its research into commercially …

infrastructure and the regions. Most of the topics deal with the long-term integration process in Europe, with a particular focus on …