The end of entrepreneurship is a comprehensive strategy for creating the conditions and
culture that nurture and sustain the entrepreneurial spirit. This chapter presents an overview …

In recent years, the concept of regional innovation systems has evolved into a widely used
analytical framework that generates the empirical foundation for innovation policy making …

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing
incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society. It begins …

Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in the last decade. Concrete
policies were shaped by “best practice models” derived from high-tech areas and well …

Drawing upon a sample of 597 small and medium-sized manufacturing firms, this article
investigates the extent to which cooperation for innovation is associated with firm-level …

It is commonly accepted nowadays that innovations are brought forward in an interactive
process of knowledge generation and application. The business sector, the science sector …

We investigate the impact of knowledge spillovers and R&D cooperation on innovation
activities in three German regions. We begin by estimating the knowledge-production …

SMEs are confronted with particular problems constraining their innovation activities. How
their needs are fulfilled by support instruments has been investigated in a recent European …

We analyze information and knowledge transfer in a sample of 16 German regional
innovation networks with almost 300 firms and research organizations involved. The results …

This article uses Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation techniques of a large-scale
survey to examine the effect of firms' innovation activities on their growth performance. The …