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. …

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 …

The role of universities for the innovation process of countries or regions had been widely explored. In lagged regions … analyses innovation and especially the interaction of firms with universities and research institutes, as strategy to face the … low internal investment capacity in innovation. Our focus is the ultra-peripheral region of Brazilian Amazon and it is …

'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 …

use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …