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

managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold consequences for the innovation behaviour of plants, among others …

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 is a key driver of technological progress and growth in a knowledge-based economy. There are various motives … the firm's own products when the technology adopted is based on ideas from other industries. Firms can perform innovation …