This paper uses obstacles to innovation to investigate the heterogeneity of Polish innovating firms. Based on the … distinguishes between two groups of innovating firms: those which introduced innovation in both periods covered by both CIS (called … persistent innovators) and those which introduced innovation either in CIS4 or CIS5 (occasional innovators). Two steps analysis …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

The way firms finance their investments can potentially explain the heterogeneity of firms in terms of their innovation … between finance and innovation of EU firms. We identify seven financing clusters to show that the degree of innovativeness …

use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …

conclusively their structural effects on regional innovation networks. Focusing on the French cluster policy during the period 2005 …-2010, this study aims at evaluating how cluster policies influence the structure of local innovation networks following network … topologies that may be beneficial for regional innovation. Based on a panel data of four periods and 94 NUTS3 French regions, we …

, innovation, productivity and export performance augmented to take account for the role played by spatial agglomeration … links R&D capital to innovation output; the third focuses on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) as determined by innovation …&D, while specialization impacts on TFP to complement innovation output. Finally, urbanization economies support TFP in driving …

The article evaluates support of innovation in four countries - Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. It … concentrates on creation of regional innovation strategies in these countries and compares the proposed measures to the theoretical … background. The paper has two main parts - theoretical background contains examples and reasons for innovation support as well as …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

the territorial product-service innovation system …