registered with the European Patent Office) of innovative firms located within and outside industrial districts, in order to … population of firms with their headquarters in the region which registered at least one patent with the European Patent Office …

innovation in micro-region of São Paulo can be affected for some territorial factors. In the literature, and assumed here, the … the regional diversification and regional specialization are mentioned as important factors in the innovation process. The … main results suggested that although the level of R&D investments were important for generating local innovation, ie, the …

While it is clear that there has been a 'regional inversion' in American patent activity over the past 25 years (i …

This paper studies the impact of universities on local innovation activity by exploiting a unique university expansion …, university expansion significantly increases universities’ own innovation capacity, which results in a dramatic boom of local … patents not related to universities. Second, the impact of university expansion on local innovation activities attenuates …

Using patent citation data for the U.S., we test whether knowledge spillovers in biotechnology are sensitive to …