This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the determination of firms' and industries'
innovative activity and performance, highlighting the questions addressed, the approaches …

Is public R&D spending complementary and thus “additional” to private R&D spending, or
does it substitute for and tend to “crowd out” private R&D? Conflicting answers are given to …

This research examines the spatial effect of financial development and technological
innovation on green growth in China using the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) based on the 30 …

The emergence of digital technologies has significantly reduced the economic costs of data—
search, storage, computation, transmission—and enabled new economic activities. Over the …

There is a growing recognition that collaboration is a key source of new knowledge and
innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Bridging the gap in the open …

The city as innovation machine. Regional Studies. This paper puts cities and urban regions
at the very centre of the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. It combines the …

Entrepreneurial finance markets are in a dynamic state. New market niches and players
have developed and continue to emerge. The rules of the game and the methods for …

The main aim of the paper is to examine the drivers of university–firm R&D collaboration
while at the same time assessing the determinants of innovation in a low-tech industry. This …

This is not to say that economics has a monopoly when it comes to factors that affect science
or in providing a lens for examining science. Other disciplines—and their foci—contribute …

Castaldi C., Frenken K. and Los B. Related variety, unrelated variety and technological
breakthroughs: an analysis of US state-level patenting, Regional Studies. This paper …