characteristics of gatekeepers within regional innovation systems by applying social network analysis based on patent data for four …

The regional or national innovation performance has been repeatedly measured in the literature; but it has so far not … been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is the contribution of a region to innovation … output? The usual approaches implicitly assume that higher innovation outputs per inhabitant, employee, or R&D employee can …

We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods … stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R&D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …

In this paper we investigate the determinants of cooperative innovation and put our main focus on the regional or … differential regional effects. The latter can be used to identify and evaluate the strength of regional innovation systems …. Applying this method to German patent data we find evidence that regional differences in the degree of cooperative innovation …

effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it … facilitates marketing innovation. …

The flow of knowledge through interaction between innovative actors is central to the systemic view of innovation. We …

This work deals with the determinants of cooperative invention and innovation within innovation systems. Several … proximity dimensions are used to identify the levels on which systemic innovation activities can be observed. To disentangle the … cooperative invention and innovation. Applying this method to German patent data shows that there are significant differences in …

Studies analyzing the importance of intra- and inter-regional cooperation for regional innovation performance are …