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Smart Specialisation in the EU: Is it a Bridge between Innovation and Cohesion?

Pessoa, Argentino - 2014

Current innovation policy is the result of decades of research about the nature and role of innovation in economic … growth. Such investigation has contributed to redesign our knowledge not only on the role played by innovation in economic … development but also about the relationship between innovation and territory. Although the huge literature examining the …

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Taxonomy of implemented policy instruments to foster the production of green technologies and improve environmental and economic performance

Crespi, Francesco; Ghisetti, Claudia; Quatraro, Francesco - 2015

, redirecting firms’ innovation activities towards ecological targets without hampering their competitiveness is of paramount … avoid sub-optimal commitment of resources to the innovation process and ensure the reduction of polluting agents emissions … chemical domain so as to draw useful insights on the effect of the policy aiming at redirecting innovation activities to …

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Regulatory push-pull effects on innovation: an evaluation of the effects of the REACH regulation on patents in the chemical sector

Ghisetti, Claudia; Quatraro, Francesco - 2015

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Credibility of the REACH Regulation: Lessons Drawn from an ABM

Arfaoui, Nabila; Brouillat, Eric; Saint Jean, Maïder - 2015

The present paper takes ground on an agent-based model presented in Arfaoui et al. (2014) to investigate the effects of credibility upon technology substitution such as stimulated by the REACH regulation (EC 1907/2006). The model is used to study how the perceived credibility by clients on the...

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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New firm survival: The interdependence between regional externalities and innovativeness

Ebert, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas; Brixy, Udo - 2015

benefit or even suffer from spatial concentration. On the contrary, highly innovative high-tech start-ups benefit from a …

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The trade-off between absorptive capacity and appropriability of the returns to innovation effort

Crowley, Frank; Jordan, Declan - 2018

A key concept in the economics of innovation is the 'public good' nature of knowledge. This generates a tension between …

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Technological coherence and the adaptive resilience of regional economies

Rocchetta, Silvia; Mina, Andrea - 2018

This paper explores the effect of different regional technological profiles on the resilience of regional economies to exogenous shocks. It presents an empirical examination of the determinants of resilience through panel analyses of UK NUTS III level data for the 2004-2012 period. The results...

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Technological diversification and the growth of regions in the short and long run

Rocchetta, Silvia; Iori, Martina; Mina, Andrea; … - 2023

implications for place-based innovation policies, reveal that technological relatedness has short-term effects on employment growth …

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The spatial diffusion of a knowledge base: Laser technology research in West Germany, 1960-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - 2010

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began, until 2005. Laser technology research has been nearly exclusively conducted in regions that are home to a university with a physics or electrical engineering department, an...

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