Innovation and entrepreneurship are key factors in current regional development initiatives, derived from the concepts … perspective. The impacts of innovation (measured by innovation scoreboard data) and entrepreneurship (GEM data etc.) on regional …

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 …

) competitiveness, innovation "smart growth" in the Lisbon and Euro 2020 strategy seems to have a build in effect toward economic … in the overall economic trends in Europe in a regional context. In addition, in influence of innovation on the …

? Based on data from the regional innovation scoreboard (RIS) is this issue addressed relative to the income level, previous … growth performance and convergence. In the first part of the paper, the innovation performance of the regions is modelled … and weaknesses of the innovation structure in different regions. In addition the issues of returns to scale will be …