This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data … and industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work links to innovation, and we discuss factors that help …

investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

engaging in virtually no collaboration in the area of innovation, and others engaging quite intensively with academic partners …

National Innovation System, with particular attention devoted to the question of finance and policy initiatives. We then turn …

knowledge acquisition, and barriers to innovation and development. In spite of a relative lack of government support, we find …

, and non-monotonically, on the expected return on the risky activity, leading to three learning regimes including a …