Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting … competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …

particular relevance for policymakers designing regional development strategies around innovation issues: is it more important to … focus on attracting creatives through "place investments" so that potentials for innovation are boosted, or to make sure …

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey … (CIS) to provide empirical evidences to test our argument concerning this interrelation between innovation, productivity …

contribute to the cooperation and innovation (Staber, 2007) of these rural clusters. According to Staber (2007) some recent OECD …

The role of ICT accessibility in enhancing regional innovation through knowledge and information exchange is a recently …

This paper focuses on the efficiency of innovation intermediary organizations and also reviews the connections of … intermediaries with regional and local actors emphasizing the human side of innovation. In the beginning I define the organizations … and the innovation process as a special market, specify their tasks and then analyze their regional and local impact …