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 …

three stages. The objective of the first and the second stage was to compare innovation capacities of northern and other … innovations - by a logistic function from model for innovation diffusion. This work confirmed the hypothesis of high concentration … the method is in inadequate quality of Russian statistics. On the second stage, the authors identified innovation clusters …

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 …