. redefinition of industrial, regional and innovation policy to characterise and stimulate the economies along a new growth path. It … the history and the way forward of European industrial policy. As regional and innovation policy are fully intertwined … the role of clusters for the new growth path and the contribution of green innovation, especially in the energy sector, to …

they matter. We first characterize YICs in the sample of innovation active firms. We show that firms that combine newness … financial constraints, both internal and external, as an important factor hampering their innovation activities, significantly … more so than other innovation active firms. This access to finance problem is an often used motive for government …