This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. …

relatively strong capabilities to advance 'innovation-driven development'. This book seeks to provide avenues for comparing it …

Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …

This paper reviews differences between countries in innovation, entrepreneurship, economic development and … innovation to catch up with USA and Asia with its fast rising industrial power. While areas as North Eastern Europe and Peoples … these differences with industrial production being located in China, but innovation, marketing and management in the Baltic …

industrial development in China. Third, we provide evidence on achievements in indigenous innovation—by which we mean …, we sketch out the implications of our approach for current debates on the role of innovation in China’s development path …