Nowadays it is quite evident that knowledge-based society necessarily involves the revaluation of human and intangible …

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 …-facilitated sources of knowledge. Meanwhile, firm-led perspectives such as the innovator networks approach and the open innovation model …

The papers discusses the concept of ‘traditional knowledge’: its definition, economic significance and role in shaping … regional development trajectories. After outlining a conceptual framework for the analysis of traditional knowledge, the paper … examines the changing position of traditional knowledge in two Italian regions that have followed since the 1950s quite …

. According to Florida, a main factor in explaining creativity driven growth is the locational choice of creative people. This …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

Korean government has established innovation growth as a national priority. In this essay, we extract regional innovation … characteristics of innovation growth capability. Based on this data, we provide recommendations for policy responses that are capable … of promoting innovation growth capability. The analysis shows that the polarization in innovation growth capability …

Over the past 20 years, the innovation system approach has significantly enhanced our understanding of the innovation … process, stressing its non-linear, systemic, interactive and evolutionary character. The notion of regional innovation systems … (RISs) highlights the regional dimension of new knowledge generation and exploitation and constitutes a powerful concept for …

We investigated the role of public funding in cardiovascular device innovation across 31 countries in Europe. We rely … on the knowledge production function (KPF) framework that establishes the knowledge output of a region as a function of … knowledge production by the number of publications in cardiovascular device research obtained from the bibliometric data of the …

play a vital role in the innovation process. Existing literature points to the importance of knowledge spillovers between …Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation …), we estimate two negative binomial models in a knowledge production function framework and include a spatial filtering …