We investigate how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant … innovation, we expect that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new … technology. However, we also expect that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often …

) evolutionary approach of industrial processes and changes that are embedded in the systems of innovation approach. The aim of this …

students per capita and the average number of education years for employees), science and innovation (number of researchers and …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

dissemination of innovations in regions via spillover effect (NESTA Business growth and innovation, 2009). Fast-growing companies … may contribute more than 50% to GDP growth (Europe INNOVA Gazelles Innovation Panel, 2008). There are several works, that … exogenous factors (Delmar, Davidsson, Gartner, 2003). In our work we assume that regional innovation performance (as a share of …

The interpretation and measurement of the innovation performance of territorial units represent well established … innovation performance is judged (considered to be effective or desirable). Innovation is certainly a spatial phenomenon. In … and neglected. The innovation performance of a territorial unit can be interpreted as the effectiveness of the system of …

innovation in micro-region of São Paulo can be affected for some territorial factors. In the literature, and assumed here, the … the regional diversification and regional specialization are mentioned as important factors in the innovation process. The … main results suggested that although the level of R&D investments were important for generating local innovation, ie, the …

attributed to the flows of new knowledge, innovation and investment, as factors which affect both the aggregate supply and the …