chain. This study aims at creating conceptual framework for measuring innovation in services and for identifying different … innovation patterns in service sector. The need for the concept of innovation patterns in services results firstly from the … different character of the innovation process in services and in manufacturing and secondly from the high degree of …

In recent years, the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has evolved into a widely used analytical framework … generating the empirical foundation for innovation policy making. Yet, the approaches utilizing this framework remain ambiguous … on such key issues as the territorial dimension of innovation, e.g., the region, and the apparently important role played …