with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge … as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation …

and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the … innovation in the large urban agglomerations in the old and in new industrialized countries with their concentrations 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 …

(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …