The competitiveness of firms, regions and countries greatly depends on the generation, dissemination and application of new knowledge. Modern innovation research is challenged by the need to incorporate knowledge generation and dissemination processes into the analysis so as to disentangle the...

Introduction -- A Research Agenda -- The Role of Banks in the Schumpeterian Innovative Evolution - An Axiomatic Set-up -- Generalized Barriers to Entry and Economic Development -- Inventing Together: Exploring the Nature of International Knowledge Spillovers in Latin America -- Formal and...