with incremental innovation typical for the mature stage of the industry life-cycle, while ties are increasingly … interregional to accommodate experimental recombination and discontinuous innovation in the decline and inception stages of the …-climbing) and the innovation network partnership (and thereby capability discovery search). To understand which technology search …

, the link between institutions and innovation remains a black box. This paper aims to shed light on how institutions shape … innovation. In particular, low quality of government becomes a fundamental barrier for the innovative capacity of the periphery … of the EU, strongly undermining any potential effect of any other measures aimed at promoting greater innovation. The …