The role of innovation on growth has been analysed to some extent and has been relying mostly on research findings … undertaken in developed countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse whether innovation has any role at regional level for … innovation on economic growth at regional level. The results showed that innovation affects growth using a sample for Romania …

Regional development and innovation are vital processes for social and economic growth of Europe. In the current period … depends on its ability of innovation in products, services and commercial and social processes. This is the reason why … innovation has been placed at the heart of Europe Strategy 2020. Furthermore, health, energy supply, major climate changes …

is the approach to network pro-innovation structures from the urban and regional point of view. What makes a network work …

reasonable to expect that mandates would work well as an incentive for innovation? To address this question, we develop a partial … equilibrium model with endogenous innovation to examine the incentives for innovation in production under a mandate and compare …

” (federal states).Innovation is often mentioned as an important pillar of the development of rural areas. One part of Rural … Development Programmes, which explicitly addresses innovation, is LEADER: a bottom up-oriented, participatory approach with …- projects fostering innovation in very different fields. …

productivity by enhancing uptake of existing innovations. The productivity gains from innovation adoption are likely to depend on … operating environment. The influence of these factors on on-­‐farm innovation adoption is tested using an ordered probit model …. The relationship between innovative capacity, innovation adoption and productivity is then evaluated. The results suggest …