This work deals with the determinants of cooperative invention and innovation within innovation systems. Several … proximity dimensions are used to identify the levels on which systemic innovation activities can be observed. To disentangle the … cooperative invention and innovation. Applying this method to German patent data shows that there are significant differences in …

This paper investigates the possible presence of three problems in regional innovation systems (RIS): intermediation …

This paper concerns the regional innovation system approach. It deals with the characteristics of three regional …

analysis with evidence on innovation slowdown trends, looking at aggregate and compositional trends. We explore the innovation … occurrence. Eventually, we relate productivity and innovation slowdowns deriving tables of trends co-movements, weighted by input …

topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany …-based innovation policies are receiving, it is worth answering two main questions. First, are firms with a relatively high level of … social capital likely to be more innovative? Second, do companies pursuing innovation in partnership innovate more? This …

ensuing innovation race, firms interact through information spillovers resulting from the imperfect appropriability of … behavioral regularities of agents who are engaged in innovation activities. As a key element we test to what extend relative … economic performance exercises a stimulating effect on the implementation of innovation and imitation strategies. …