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(EC) Regulations 2081/92 and 2082/92, replaced by Council Regulations (EC) 510/2006 and 509/2006, respectively, are an important contribution to establishing the foundations of European Policy on agri-food quality. They include the protection of agricultural as well as food product designations...
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In recent years Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) inflows towards Eastern European countries have progressively increased, further stimulated by the entry of some countries into the European Union. However, the empirical literature finds mixed evidence for the actual occurrence of spillover...
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Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world relying specifically on the increase and strengthen of its human capital and technological endowments. However, given the presence of localized externalities in the knowledge...
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the successful translation of innovation into economic growth. It is suggested that generating a development strategy …
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(EC) Regulations 2081/92 and 2082/92, replaced by Council Regulations (EC) 510/2006 and 509/2006, respectively, are an important contribution to establishing the foundations of European Policy on agri-food quality. They include the protection of agricultural as well as food product designations...
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The concept of an innovation system was launched two and a half decades ago, and since then has exercised great … influence on relevant academic literature and on policy-making. This paper reviews four of today s most influential innovation …, technological and regional systems of innovation. It is argued that the four concepts, developing separately, may serve as a joint …
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the regional growth dynamics of economic, research, innovation and educational activities affect each other …
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Over the past 20 years, the innovation system approach has significantly enhanced our understanding of the innovation … process, stressing its non-linear, systemic, interactive and evolutionary character. The notion of regional innovation systems … explaining regional differences in innovation capacity. RISs can be conceptualised as the set of firms, organisations and …
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The paper aims to examine the role of academic institutions in the development of the ICT cluster of the Waterloo Region in Ontario, Canada. The regional economic impact of clusters as well as academic institutions relies heavily on its ability to innovate. The ICT sector with its analytical...
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While it is clear that there has been a 'regional inversion' in American patent activity over the past 25 years (i.e. relative rise of the Northwest and Southwest at the expense of the traditional invention hotbeds of the Northeast and Midwest), the reason is still open to speculation. Intuition...
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