characteristics of the innovation systems at national and regional levels. The paper studies two phenomena. First, what novelties are … brought into the host region (country) when FDI inflows occur? Second, what are the consequences for the innovation intensity … are based on CIS data (Community Innovation Survey III). The paper contributes to earlier studies in two important ways …

linkages in geographical proximity are more likely to generate impulses to innovation and create significant learning effects …

recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent … higher for an innovative firm, depending on how innovation is defined and where the innovator is located. The annual long …

(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …

that the arrival rate of innovation ideas to an individual firm is a function of each firm’s stock of varieties at every … firms remain. We make use of simulations to depict and assess the innovation dynamics of the proposed model. …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge … as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation …