This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data … and industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work links to innovation, and we discuss factors that help …

have influenced the direction of innovation over the last four decades. Our findings suggest that the demography of …

investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

their inward looking or exploitationʺ attitude in R&D and innovation. We argue that because of sunk costs and learning …. Among other things, this suggests that explorationʺ, which leads to the opening of new innovation trajectories, requires not …

relatively low innovation score, a feature reversing the trend observed in most European Union countries. Three empirical … scenarios, one for each innovation output, are defined and analyzed following a random-effects probit panel model separately …

role of the effect of pooling on downstream innovation. The focus of this paper is on downstream product development and … tacit knowledge and incomplete patents. -- Patent Pools ; Research and Development ; Innovation ; Tacit Knowledge …

analyzed the developments of robotics innovation. This paper closes this gap by analyzing how innovation in robotics is taking … located in the US, Europe, but increasingly also in the Republic of Korea and China. The robotics innovation ecosystem builds … significant role in supporting robotics innovation, in particular through funding, military demand, and national robotics …