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 …

The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

Innovation is a key driver of technological progress and growth in a knowledge-based economy. There are various motives … the firm's own products when the technology adopted is based on ideas from other industries. Firms can perform innovation …

innovation and technical change is, however, not much studied. The existing work on the effect of immigrants on innovation is … generally limited to the role played by highly educated immigrants, generally immigrants with at least tertiary education, and … the innovation of the receiving countries, it has much less to say about the general effect of immigrants, or of low …

importance for the EU 2020 innovation strategy. New activities are to be nominated at the regional level that aim at exploring … specialisation is about defining a method to help policy-makers identify desirable areas for innovation policy intervention [Foray … regions: leaders and less developed regions in the field of innovation and R&D. The main objective of the paper is to assess …

A review of the types of Innovation System identified in the literature points to different models. Besides the very … well-known National, Regional, Local, sectorial, and technological innovation systems, combinations of the previous can be … identified, proposing sub-models such as National Open Innovation Systems, Regional Open Innovation System, as well as Regional …

potential. However, the level of innovativeness of Polish clusters is a difficult subject to clear assessment. Innovation …

Innovation development is declared as one of the key objectives of social and economic policy in Russia. The purpose of … the work was to identify regions with the highest innovation capacity and developed regional innovation system, where … support of innovation activities would be the most effective. The hypothesis was that innovation capacity can be expressed as …

This comparative study aims to highlight new opportunities emerging for public sector innovation while raising …