1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices. Since then, environmental policies, and, more recently, climate … policies, have accelerated the pace of innovation. The data also indicate that innovation is highly concentrated in three … countries-Japan, Germany, and the United States-which together account for 60 percent of total inventions. Surprisingly, the …

The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …