academic research is positively correlated with firms' innovation at the geographical level. There are two reasons that are …

regional innovation and the importance of local inputs in innovative performance. However, most of the studies use data from … innovation measured by patents, and, similarly, a relation between patenting activity of the firms and local academic research …. With the purpose of evaluate which externality is more important to innovation in Brazilian regions, marshallian or …

innovation in micro-region of São Paulo can be affected for some territorial factors. In the literature, and assumed here, the … the regional diversification and regional specialization are mentioned as important factors in the innovation process. The … main results suggested that although the level of R&D investments were important for generating local innovation, ie, the …