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 …

development of the producers is a direct consequence of the association of a number of factors such as innovation and technology …

The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross … desirability of the innovation process and its products. The work presents a review of the state-of-art scientific literature on … Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) together with a synthesis of theoretical and practical challenges faced by this new …

This paper attempts to give an economic perspective of the impact of the innovation industries. The estimation method …, as higher employment and wages/capita in innovation industries are accompanied by higher employment and lower … influence of research and development activities. All these effects point to the sustainability of innovation industries, which …

We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged … buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than … non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things being equal. However, innovation and R&D investments decline …

economies and, in light of the predictions of endogenous growth models, suggests that technological innovation is the only way … of innovation policies by studying a broad set of Science and Technology (S&T) indicators for the BICs, trying in this …