[HTML][HTML] Peripheries within economic geography: Four “problems” and the road ahead of us

R Pugh, A Dubois - Journal of Rural Studies, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This paper is a theoretical contribution to interrogate and elucidate a term commonly used
(but rarely interrogated) from the perspective of the economic geography field within which …

[HTML][HTML] The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU

JL Hervás-Oliver, MD Parrilli, A Rodríguez-Pose… - Research Policy, 2021‏ - Elsevier
European Union (EU) innovation policies have for long remained mostly research driven.
The fundamental goal has been to achieve a rate of R&D investment of 3% of GDP. Small …

Rethinking clusters. Towards a new research agenda for cluster research

L Lazzeretti, F Capone, A Caloffi… - European Planning …, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
Notwithstanding the wide research on clusters and industrial districts, most of the preceding
contributions tried to analyse and investigate past research and rarely tried to critique or …

[HTML][HTML] Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

R Crescenzi, M Nathan, A Rodríguez-Pose - Research policy, 2016‏ - Elsevier
This paper examines the characteristics of the collaborations between inventors in the
United Kingdom (UK) by looking at what types of proximities–geographic, organisational …

Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison

M Fritsch, M Wyrwich - Research Policy, 2021‏ - Elsevier
There is a widely held belief that agglomeration economies encourage significantly more
successful and productive innovation activities. Based on this belief some scholars even …

What drives university-industry collaboration? Research excellence or firm collaboration strategy?

K Atta-Owusu, RD Fitjar, A Rodríguez-Pose - … Forecasting and Social …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Research and innovation policy aims to boost research output and university-industry
collaboration (UIC) in part to allow firms access to leading scientific knowledge. As part of …

[HTML][HTML] Innovation in agriculture: An analysis of Swedish agricultural and non-agricultural firms

L Bjerke, S Johansson - Food policy, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This paper contributes to the literature on innovation in agri-food sectors. It presents a
quantitative analysis of how innovation and innovation capacities differ between agricultural …

Innovating in less developed regions: What drives patenting in the lagging regions of Europe and North America

A Rodríguez‐Pose, C Wilkie - Growth and Change, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Not all economically disadvantaged—“less developed” or “lagging”—regions are the same.
They are, however, often bundled together for the purposes of innovation policy design and …

Innovation in the periphery: Compensation and exploitation strategies

J Eder, M Trippl - Growth and Change, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has challenged the urban bias in economic geography and innovation
studies, showing that highly innovative and competitive firms are also located in peripheral …

Diverse diversities—Open innovation in small towns and rural areas

R Meili, R Shearmur - Growth and Change, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
It is generally accepted that cities and other forms of geographic agglomerations are
conducive to innovation because their density and variety of firms, sectors and individuals …