classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains … in the efficiency of innovation activities can be found. This variation is in correspondence with a center … differences in efficiency of regional innovation systems can be explained by differences in R&D-cooperation behavior. …

The EU's stagnation on many innovation indicators led to a number of efforts to spur a turnaround. One of most visible … innovation. But does this strategy address the right issues to promote innovation? Is Horizon 2020 right to ignore geographical … Horizon 2020 actually having on innovation in the EU? …

potential and, in particular when it comes to lack of risk capital, their innovation and R&D activity. Against this background …

We measure the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … spatial autocorrelation. -- Knowledge ; innovation ; spillovers ; patents ; regional analysis … second approach assesses regional differences within the framework of a stochastic frontier knowledge production function …

This paper examines the diversity of the types of links of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance …, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation performance, in particular with respect to innovations that are new to … of science links. -- Innovation ; cooperation ; patents ; forward citation ; science ; industrial innovation …