It has been repeatedly shown that universities and public research institutes contribute to local innovation generation … empirical examinations are missing. We analyse the impact of universities and public research on regional innovation output … innovation generators or innovation facilitators. All analyses are conducted on German data. …

The paper contributes to the debate on how to measure regions' innovation performance. On the basis of the concept of … regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global … measures. We argue for the use of a robust shared-input DEA-model to estimate regions' innovation efficiency in a global manner …

reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …

We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and … spatial sorting is important. A large portion of the regional differences in firm innovation rates is due to firm … localization on different types of innovation. However, once we include firm fixed effects and distinguish between manufacturing …

India. Growth in ethnic innovation is concentrated in high-tech sectors; the institutional and geographic dimensions are …

—promotes innovation. Firms with PhD CEOs produce more exploratory patents with greater novelty, generality and originality. PhD CEOs …

agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …

to fostering innovation. …