academic research is positively correlated with firms' innovation at the geographical level. There are two reasons that are …

regional innovation and the importance of local inputs in innovative performance. However, most of the studies use data from … innovation measured by patents, and, similarly, a relation between patenting activity of the firms and local academic research …. With the purpose of evaluate which externality is more important to innovation in Brazilian regions, marshallian or …

Innovation and technological progress are the key determinants of long-run economic growth and welfare. Therefore, an … important question is, how can public policy encourage more innovation? In this chapter, I review some of the empirical findings … from various recent studies on innovation and firm dynamics that can shed light on the design of innovation policy. The …