This paper deals with the relationship between knowledge, innovation and regional growth. The study is carried out … regression can be used for the identi...cation of spatial patterns. In this respect, we ...find a cluster of innovation …

The innovation systems perspective is primarily concerned with the knowledge flow and diffusion and its positive impact … of stimulating economic growth. In innovation systems observed at the regional level there is a tendency of … this paper the relation between innovation and knowledge is illustrated by the high-technology cluster of Campinas. It also …

Innovation performance seems to rely on efficiently integrating and extending different pieces of various types of … sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance drivers. Thus, context-led views such as the innovative milieux approach …, innovation systems literature and the knowledge spillover view have tended to focus on diverse, informal and location …

activities associated with the development of its innovation process. Innovation is a highly complex process, very contingent and … onerously demanding. With innovation as a key source of high economic performance, it is important to understand to what extent … the current economic crisis is to constrain the innovation of firms and thus, the process of wealth creation. The main …

innovation and entrepreneurship. In these studies universities are seen as important actors within regional innovation systems …

, 2005; Breschi and Lissoni, 2009) have shown that academic research is positively correlated with firms' innovation at the …