This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited … commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that … "knowledge filter" between new knowledge and economic knowledge and identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the …

drive innovation. -- Entrepreneurship ; Development; Stages of Growth ; Globalization ; Innovation ; Index ; Knowledge …

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason … for this is that the spatial dimension of knowledge production is still only partly understood in the empirical literature …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building …