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Smart Specialisation in the EU: Is it a Bridge between Innovation and Cohesion?

Pessoa, Argentino - 2014

Current innovation policy is the result of decades of research about the nature and role of innovation in economic … growth. Such investigation has contributed to redesign our knowledge not only on the role played by innovation in economic … development but also about the relationship between innovation and territory. Although the huge literature examining the …

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Knowledge accumulation in cities: The role of imitation and innovation

Assmann, Dirk; Stiller, Johannes - 2014

The aim of this paper is to develop a spatial model that explicitly incorporates the different types of knowledge spillovers taking place in cities and to show how they affect the migration decision of individuals and the size of cities. We use a static general equilibrium framework with two...

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An inside look into a problem of innovation in selected Priority Axis of Innovative Economy Operational Programme 2007 - 2013 for Lower Silesia Region

Zaleska, Marta; Mogiła, Zbigniew; Knap, Joanna - 2014

growth based on knowledge and innovation. Poland and its regions are in a specific socio-economical position characterized by … develop and maintain a competitive advantage is to trigger knowledge- and innovation-based entrepreneurship. Cohesion policy … funds open up great opportunities for innovation. Nowadays, when the programming period 2007 - 2013 came to an end, it is …

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Effects of Government Research and Development Support Policies on Local Firms' Innovative Performance

Cho, Deokho; Choi, Kyunghee - 2014

This study basically focuses on the analysis of the net effect of the government R&D support program on the local firms' technology development and its performance. And then it examines whether and how much R&D raises the effects of local firms' technology development and its performance. It...

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Mapping innovation in the global photovoltaic industry: a bibliometric approach to cluster identification and analysis

Geenhuizen, Marina Van; Stek, Pieter - 2015

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 …

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Crisis and conversion of industrial port complex: the case of Gdansk (Poland)

Lorek, Maria - 2015

development of innovation on the local level in the former centrally planned countries. The purpose of this paper is to highlight … the strong links between the institutional and organizational decentralization and development of innovation on the local … innovation. To justify our approach, we combine the institutional approach and the evolutionary approach to explain the formation …

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The effects of knowledge and innovation on regional growth: Nonparametric evidence

Sanso-Navarro, Marcos; Vera-Cabello, Maria - 2015

This paper deals with the relationship between knowledge, innovation and regional growth. The study is carried out … regression can be used for the identi...cation of spatial patterns. In this respect, we ...find a cluster of innovation …

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Long-lasting Labour Market Consequences of German Unification

Möller, Joachim; Blien, Uwe; thi Hong Van, Phan; … - 2015

managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold consequences for the innovation behaviour of plants, among others …

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Rural entrepreneurship and Innovation: some successful women's initiatives

Pato, Lúcia - 2015

Although rural entrepreneurship is an emergent field of study and has emerged as one of the most noticeable ways to promote rural development, the few studies concerning the theme are still incipient. Moreover, a lot of studies focus on farmers and rural entrepreneurs as a whole and little...

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An assessment of innovation profiles of telecom operators: a longitudinal comparison between BT and Orange from 2004 to 2013

Vialle, Pierre; Beltran, Samuel; Whalley, Jason - 2015

A large body of research has focused on measuring innovation and the innovativeness of firms. One option frequently … characterising the innovation profile of telecom operators over time. It combines quantitative and qualitative analysis and relies on … to enable linking the observed innovation patterns. For example the innovation patterns observed can be related to …

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