dissemination of innovations in regions via spillover effect (NESTA Business growth and innovation, 2009). Fast-growing companies … may contribute more than 50% to GDP growth (Europe INNOVA Gazelles Innovation Panel, 2008). There are several works, that … exogenous factors (Delmar, Davidsson, Gartner, 2003). In our work we assume that regional innovation performance (as a share of …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

This paper presents conceptual and empirical reasons for moving from a thematically-regionally neutral innovation … policy to a thematically and regionally focused innovation policy, in line with the smart specialization approach of the new … cohesion policy framework. The paper starts by claiming that the pathways towards innovation and modernization are …

local spillovers. In particular, the paradigmatic jump in interpreting regional innovation processes lies in a conceptual … framework interpreting not a single phase of the innovation process, but the different modes of performing the different phases … of the innovation process, highlighting the context conditions (internal and external to the region) that accompany each …

Performance assessment of innovation infrastructure facilities might be seen as one of the most topical issues of … the enquiries of the stakeholders. The article discusses ways to evaluate the efficiency of innovation infrastructure … facilities in Russia. We assume, that innovation infrastructure can't be analyzed apart from the national innovation system it …