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 …

It has been repeatedly shown that universities and public research institutes contribute to local innovation generation … empirical examinations are missing. We analyse the impact of universities and public research on regional innovation output … innovation generators or innovation facilitators. All analyses are conducted on German data. …

Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities …

The paper contributes to the debate on how to measure regions' innovation performance. On the basis of the concept of … regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global … measures. We argue for the use of a robust shared-input DEA-model to estimate regions' innovation efficiency in a global manner …

In the literature there is a controversy about the relevance of the spatial dimension in innovation collaboration. We … innovation projects. To this end, we introduce a social-psychological approach to the field of economic geography. The empirical … part is a longitudinal study of 49 inter-organisational innovation groups in Germany. We find that the share of regional …