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 …

objective written in the Research, Development and Innovation Strategy 2014 to "reaching until year 2020 the critical mass of … and qualitative human resources in research, development and innovation" (R&D Strategy, 2014). …

territorial component of the national innovation system is still underdeveloped. Moreover, research and development activity might … new hardships on the Romanian innovation system. Following a significant rise in research and development funding prior to … hierarchy. The convergence of the regional R&D and innovation system is as an essential component of successful regional …

entrepreneurial activity in innovation and regional growth within a spatial semi-endogenous growth model in the spirit of Jones (1995 …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

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 …

innovations as well as a higher innovation intensity. Interestingly, the results are of equal magnitude in the manufacturing and … services industries. The results support the view that big data analytics have the potential to enable innovation. …

particular relevance for policymakers designing regional development strategies around innovation issues: is it more important to … focus on attracting creatives through "place investments" so that potentials for innovation are boosted, or to make sure …