This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

dissemination of innovations in regions via spillover effect (NESTA Business growth and innovation, 2009). Fast-growing companies … may contribute more than 50% to GDP growth (Europe INNOVA Gazelles Innovation Panel, 2008). There are several works, that … exogenous factors (Delmar, Davidsson, Gartner, 2003). In our work we assume that regional innovation performance (as a share of …

Innovation is crucial to regional economic competitiveness and to productivity growth. A salient feature of the Indian … economy is the geographic concentration of both, economic activity and innovation, as measured by patent activity. Theoretical … turn drives innovation. The literature also posits that the presence of human capital is critical to the generation of new …

, development and innovation. Smart specialization is an important instrument for creating a strategy for the development of … innovation at the state and regional level as well as for defining and building the knowledge-based economy. This paper presents … specialization is helping to focus development of innovation in areas consistent with their endogenous potentials. The aims of the …

in regional clusters. This challenge is even greater for its critically important innovation activities, including … approach of 'paper trail' of the industry's innovation process as revealed in patents and scientific publications. By using … networks, a detailed picture of the photovoltaic industry innovation and its constituent regional clusters is constructed. This …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …

Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting … competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …

. Interest is affecting now the works dedicated to innovation process, links between science and industry, relations between … users and producers or sub-contractors, national systems of innovation, innovative milieus, about also local labour markets …