Innovation arises from multilevel interactions. Many factors at various levels of aggregation chip in. Not only … for their success in the innovation process. Admittedly this has been recognized for a long time in the various … ?contextual? perspectives on geography of innovation, including the concepts of innovative (or creative) milieu, technology …

The paper aims to assess how public support for innovation activities influences the economic performance of Czech … their innovation activities. The analysis was performed on the case of the Innovation Program, which was co-financed by the … European Regional Development Fund. The Innovation Program is the largest Czech program for innovation support and mainly …

Each region can be considered to be an individual regional innovation system. It is possible to distinguish various … and fragmentation, defines three types of imperfect regional innovation systems. The metropolitan regions are one of these … types. These regions can be characterized by above-average research, innovation and patent activity and they are considered …

Research and development represent an important source for the introduction of new innovation, in particular technical … innovation. Individual regions differ considerably in the level of their research activity and in their preconditions for it. The …