innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

In this paper we empirically analyze the effects of collaboration in innovation with universities on the firm …'s innovative performance. Using data from the Technological Innovation Panel dataset (PITEC for its acronym in Spanish) we have …

This paper focuses on the efficiency of innovation intermediary organizations and also reviews the connections of … intermediaries with regional and local actors emphasizing the human side of innovation. In the beginning I define the organizations … and the innovation process as a special market, specify their tasks and then analyze their regional and local impact …

This paper draws on a sample of innovative Catalan firms to identify the effects of the two main sources of innovation … regression techniques. Our results suggest the different patterns attributable to the two sources of innovation as we move up …

machinery industry. Nothing has received as much attention as innovation, which has been pinpointed as the fundamental driving … force for economic growth and welfare as well as a key factor in competitiveness. Therefore, innovation growth is seen as a … mechanism to influence economic growth, and therefore firms capable of increasing their innovation potential benefit from …

. Adopting new production technologies and realizing synergy effects might allow cost reduction, product innovation and product … upgrading. Even if GVCs represent a rich environment for innovation activities, the extent to which knowledge is created and … heterogeneous innovation capacities for the firms involved. Differences in the forms of governance underlying buyer …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

. Summarised considerations represent a scientific contribution to the new theory of problem solving and innovations in tourism …