Using an Italian questionnaire not specifically designed to study geographic phenomena, the potential and limitations of the régionalisation of innovation information is analysed. There were difficulties involved in introducing the territorial dimension into the existing questionnaire and...

The empirical target of this article is two-fold: exploring the variety of regional innovative patterns in Italy; and assessing whether innovation systems can be found, and how they operate, at a sub-national scale. The empirical analysis is based on an in-depth analysis of the data provided by...