knowledge and facilitate innovation. The paper draws on the notion of network resources, distinguishing two types: social … important source of innovation. Overall, firms investing more in the development of their inter-firm and other external … knowledge networks enjoy higher levels of innovation. It is suggested that an over-reliance on social capital forms of network …

utilisable in the pursuit of economic growth. Although there have been numerous studies assessing the economic and innovation … and innovation, but often these universities underperform in comparison with counterpart institutions in more competitive …

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 …

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