learning and collaborative innovation. Different forms of proximity include geographical, cognitive, social, institutional and …

approach in the research fields of innovation studies and economic geography. Secondly, to propose a broadened interpretation …, regions and time periods and for analytically integrating the cognitive, organizational and spatial dimensions of innovation … knowledge base approach in empirical innovation studies, regardless of industrial, geographical or temporal context. The paper …

This paper deals with institutional conditions in regional innovation systems; how institutions affect the organization … of innovation activities among firms, and in what ways regional policy initiatives can be supportive. The analysis draws … on data on innovation networks and activities in the life science, media, and food industries. The theoretical framework …

Since the seminal work of Archibugi and Michie (1995) on the globalization of innovation, several authors have tried to … understand the complex relationship between innovation and internationalization, mainly using firm or sectoral level data …. However, most of them tend to focus on just one form of globalization of innovation – exploitation of technology, research …

(education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the … gap between the existing literature on competences on the one hand, and the real world of innovation policy-making on the … competence-building in the innovation process from a perspective of innovation systems; it examines how governments and public …