This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …

We analyze information and knowledge transfer in a sample of 16 German regional innovation networks with almost 300 …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …

Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may … innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new ideas may be born by the exchange of heterogeneous and complementary …

characteristics of gatekeepers within regional innovation systems by applying social network analysis based on patent data for four …

The regional or national innovation performance has been repeatedly measured in the literature; but it has so far not … been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is the contribution of a region to innovation … output? The usual approaches implicitly assume that higher innovation outputs per inhabitant, employee, or R&D employee can …