Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … to identify the "knowledge regions" in Europe and to examine their main territorial features. To this aim we first build … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted …

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 …

Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong … correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the … other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent discrepancies between knowledge inputs and economic performance …

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …

The focus of this study is on regional knowledge production activities in Europe, with special emphasis on the … the recent past, regional knowledge production activities, on the one hand, still remain geographically bounded; on the … other hand, knowledge production activities have become increasingly interwoven and internationalized, emphasizing the …

Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … designed to benefit all regions in Europe. …

Regional knowledge spaces are heterogeneous, and the structure of these knowledge spaces can play a significant role in …

knowledge, know-how and know-who for the DUI mode of innovation whereas the STI mode of innovation is said to rely on codified … knowledge, know-what and know-why. Based upon 81 in-depth interviews with German SMEs and regional innovation consultants, this …: product innovation, business process innovation & organizational routines and customer knowledge. However, the acquisition …

knowledge and ways of knowledge combination in innovation processes. Innovation Biographies allow capturing relationships …The paper presents the methodology of Innovation Biographies that has been designed to study the time-space dynamics of …, contextual settings and different kinds of knowledge and enable insights into the evolvement and development of innovations. By …