values, and lacks a sense of initiative, creativity and innovation. This, supposedly, is why the rural world is lagging … for a better understanding of rural innovation based on the recognition that rural people and communities are creative and … innovations they put in place in response to multifaceted rural development challenges. Rural innovation is much more than …

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … circumstances in which there is either too much or too little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) the aggregate economy of N>2 …

There is a broad consensus in the literature in that R&D is a precondition for innovation and in turn, for economic … of R&D as an instrument to foster the regional innovation performance. However, the relation between regional R&D and … regional innovation. Thus, empirical evidence shows that some regions perform well in economic terms, irrespective of their …

Current innovation policy is the result of decades of research about the nature and role of innovation in economic … growth. Such investigation has contributed to redesign our knowledge not only on the role played by innovation in economic … development but also about the relationship between innovation and territory. Although the huge literature examining the …

innovation and technical change is, however, not much studied. The existing work on the effect of immigrants on innovation is … the innovation of the receiving countries, it has much less to say about the general effect of immigrants, or of low …-educated immigrants. In this paper, we make an attempt to partly fill the gap concerning the effects of overall immigration on 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 …

The economic crisis and the declining competitiveness of Europe, led to the orientation of cohesion policy for smart … growth based on knowledge and innovation. Poland and its regions are in a specific socio-economical position characterized by … develop and maintain a competitive advantage is to trigger knowledge- and innovation-based entrepreneurship. Cohesion policy …

encountered during the creation process, developing innovative end products, and fostering a general context for innovation. …