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 …

Along time the European Union (EU) has been pointed as the most succeeded example of regional integration. Now, this … solution, and the recurrent EU proclamations of "policies to restore European growth", the crisis in the EZ looks more and more … credibility of the EU integration process and will inevitably impact on the spreading of the integration model to other regions of …

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 …