'Innovation is the ability to take new ideas and translate them into commercial outcomes by using new processes …, products or services in a way that is better and faster than the competition' (Nedis & Byler, 2009). Innovation is considered … subject of policy intervention and regional development. The understanding of what innovation is has evolved in the past …

growth based on knowledge and innovation. Poland and its regions are in a specific socio-economical position characterized by … develop and maintain a competitive advantage is to trigger knowledge- and innovation-based entrepreneurship. Cohesion policy … funds open up great opportunities for innovation. Nowadays, when the programming period 2007 - 2013 came to an end, it is …

The paper focuses on quantitative assessment of the innovation's role in explaining regional disparities and … convergence in Europe. The empirical part of the study bases on the regional GDP pc and innovation indicators on the EU-27 NUTS2 … level regions. Based on the selected set of initial innovation indicators for the 262 EU NUTS2 level regions and using the …

articles is innovation. However, the question is whether innovation necessarily leads to growth. The aim of this research is to … investigate the relationship between high growth and innovation. Dataset for this research consists of 181 SMEs from Croatia … existence of innovation in the enterprise is not present among factors that influence growth. This research raises the question …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …

cover all the costs, including the costs of investment and innovation, to operate in an effective way, to "balance …