Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) constitute a major source of innovative knowledge for small- and medium …-sized enterprises. In regional innovation systems, KIBS play a crucial role in distributing innovations and improving the regionś … SMEs cooperating with various KIBS and discuss the implications for regional innovation systems from a policy …

majority of existing New Economic Geography models ignores the interdependence between spatial concentration, knowledge … Geography Growth models in the context of the existing geography of innovation literature. The first part of the paper … contributions to the geography of innovation literature in the course of time. For this purpose, the paper examines in a meta …

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out …In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools … that measures of the uncentered correlation of firm characteristics seem to fit actual knowledge spillovers best. Direct …

This paper analyses the influence of in-house R&D and external knowledge acquisition on the total factor productivity … with domestic partners. We do not find a significant effect for employing inventors with access to international knowledge … or for collaborating with international partners. International knowledge acquisition is only effective if conducted via …