The aim of this paper is to estimate the impact of urbanization economies on the innovativeness of firm. Using a representative micro dataset derived from pooling two waves of Community Innovation Survey in the Czech Republic, we quantitatively assess the hypothesis that the local milieu...

Innovation arises from multilevel interactions. Many factors at various levels of aggregation chip in. Not only individual characteristics, resources and capabilities of firms, but also framework conditions within which they operate matter for their success in the innovation process. Admittedly...