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Determinants of convergence and disparities in Europe : innovation, entrepreneurship and the processes of clustering : 52th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2012 - Preliminary version

Innovation and entrepreneurship are key factors in current regional development initiatives, derived from the concepts … perspective. The impacts of innovation (measured by innovation scoreboard data) and entrepreneurship (GEM data etc.) on regional …

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An aggregate view of macroeconomic shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa : a comparative study using innovation accounting

Coleman, Simeon - 2004

This paper investigates the impacts and responses of macroeconomic shocks in some domestic economies in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1961-99; more specifically, it seeks to answer the question of whether there are any systematic differences in the responses of the CFA franc zones and the...

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Are the tasks of innovation intermediaries changing? : findings of an empirical study from Dunaújváros/Hungary : ERSA 2012 Congress, Regions in motion - breaking the path, 21st Aug...

Gajzágó, Éva - 2012

This paper focuses on the efficiency of innovation intermediary organizations and also reviews the connections of … intermediaries with regional and local actors emphasizing the human side of innovation. In the beginning I define the organizations … and the innovation process as a special market, specify their tasks and then analyze their regional and local impact …

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Impact of technological innovations for coffee production in adverse weather conditions

Bliska, Flavia Maria de Mello; Turco, Patricia Helena … - 2013

contribution of technological innovation to environmental, social and economic development of an agricultural activity. The system …

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Comparison of the optimal duration of clusters support in European Countries with different levels of innovation performance

Burger, Peter - 2012

program which provides this support. This paper deals with the influence of innovation performance of European countries …, which is measured with the composite index called "Summary Innovation Index", on the optimal length of clusters support … duration in these countries. The paper works with the assumption that the countries with higher levels of innovation …

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The impacts of urban location on the involvement of knowledge-intensive services in international innovation collaboration

Herstad, Sverre; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2012

Research on territorial innovation systems has traditionally put a very strong emphasis on intra-economy collaborative … based on localized knowledge assets, and as platforms for growth and internationalization. The locus of innovation is … therefore shifting away from individual firms, towards territorial economies and the distributed innovation networks by which …

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From creativity to innovativeness : micro evidence from Italy

Antonietti, Roberto - 2012

In this paper I assess the existence, and the magnitude, of technological externalities in the form of creativity spillovers that affect individual firms' innovative intensity. Relying on a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms, I first estimate a knowledge production function through a...

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Research collaboration and regional knowledge production in Europe : paper to be presented at the 52nd European Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), 2...

Hidas, Slavomir; Wolska, Martyna; Fischer, Manfred M.; … - 2012

The focus of this study is on regional knowledge production activities in Europe, with special emphasis on the interplay between agglomeration and network effects. As increasingly considered in economic geography and regional science in the recent past, regional knowledge production activities,...

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The approaches on supporting creativity as a stimulus of developing local economy

Bajusová, Dana; Špesová, Mária; Žárska, Elena - 2012

Creativity is a new paradigm of development, which connects society in its economic, culture, technological and social aspects at the macro and micro level. Creativity, knowledge and access to information are central points of this paradigm and are considered to be engines of economic growth in...

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Transformation of regional innovation systems : from old legacies towards new development paths : to be presented at ERSA Conference, Bratislava, August 21-26, 2012, forthcoming in...

Tödtling, Franz; Trippl, Michaela - 2012

Over the past 20 years, the innovation system approach has significantly enhanced our understanding of the innovation … process, stressing its non-linear, systemic, interactive and evolutionary character. The notion of regional innovation systems … explaining regional differences in innovation capacity. RISs can be conceptualised as the set of firms, organisations and …

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