importance to the study of the innovation process, only recently research has started to attempt to trace researchers …’ intersectoral mobility When looking for ways to improve the transfers from science to innovation, most of the attention in the … universities to innovation based growth, should take a long-term perspective for developing an industry-science eco …

South Australia is a small economy that faces a fundamental need to re-shape its approach to innovation. The … necessitates a re-think about how innovation happens and how the respective actors within an economy interact and engage with each … other. In effect, innovation relies on intersections between people, knowledge, information sharing, ideas, financial and …

In the past two decades, clusters have received widespread attention as an instrument for enabling firms to overcome … throughout time. In the 21st century a lot of work has been done towards the system approach of clusters and the policies that … organizational structure that will allow them to support the growth and spread of innovation by, for example, participating in a …

supporting this claim is scarce. Job-hopping is important in computer clusters because it facilitates the reallocation of talent …-hopping for college-educated men in Silicon Valley's computer industry than in computer clusters located out of the state …. Mobility rates in other California computer clusters are similar to Silicon Valley's, suggesting some role for features of …

A common theory in current innovation literature, and one that this paper supports, is that spatially defined industry … clusters provide incubation for ‘competitive advantage’. It is the heightened interaction between ‘actors’, the intense … vertical integration and concentration of resources that creates enclaves of innovation within which activity is leveraged in …

cluster as opposed to those in non-cluster environments. The general claim is that clusters provide highly productive …

In today?s global economy innovation is presented as the key to economic development and sustainability. Only through … innovation can companies ensure their progress and their place in the market and can become strong enough to survive and prosper …. By creating a favourable environment for innovation, countries and regions can facilitate their industries and companies …

to provide theoretical and empirical perspectives on innovation which give a greater role to the demand-side aspect of … innovation. The main question is how can policy make enterprises more willing to innovate? This task is fulfilled by identifying … what we consider the central or most salient aspect of a demand-side innovation- driven economy, which is the small and …

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical … of these issues the concept of a regional innovation system is presented in some detail and an overview of results from … recent research on regional innovation systems is given. The paper then discusses basic policy options and names a number of …