as to increase the impact of innovation. If related diversification and not related specialization is considered to be a …Diversity is considered key to research, innovation and growth. However, throughout the literature, the exact meaning … diversity and innovation directly. To fill in this gap in the literature, this paper offers an empirical analysis of the …

. -- general purpose technology ; nanotechnology ; specialization ; diversification ; Marshall-Jacobs controversy ; patent and … urbanization externalities. We carry out patent and publication analyses for the city state of Hamburg during the period 1990 … specialization patterns. As nanotechnologies develop both industry specific and city specific externalities become effective leading …

We investigated the role of public funding in cardiovascular device innovation across 31 countries in Europe. We rely … effective for promoting innovation in the medical device industry at the regional level. …

Innovation and investment are critical to economic growth. In this article, we address the complex task of evaluating … the capacity of regional innovation to increase investment and generate spillovers in regions of the European Union (EU … spatial competition, both in terms of the distribution of investments and in terms of the diffusion of short-term innovation …

Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting … competitiveness, industrial development, innovation and growth. But, although cluster policies have a potential for generating …

to cities developing a pattern of sectoral specialization, and the latter a pattern of functional specialization. This … predictions of the model are consistent with changes in the pattern of specialization in the US over recent decades. The model … insights, including that, as costs of remote sourcing fall, cities’ functional specialization tends to increase and their …

, regional, national) might be most effective for strategic innovation policy-making based on smart specialization in Germany … Germany, can be considered separate sub-national innovation systems. These findings strengthen the case for region- and …Employing a quantitative, data-driven tool - the Triple Helix Indicator - to microdata of firms in Germany, we develop …

high investments in the areas of innovation and ICT infrastructures. This paper is based on the field work and on the … concerning mainly to technological innovation, neglecting other strategic political areas, such as the policies of governance and … state re-territorialization, the concept of innovation and social innovation, the role of democracy and citizenship and …