Journal
RESEARCH POLICY
Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 722-735Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.02.016
Keywords
Determinants of innovation; Regional innovation systems; Europe; R&D
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The present paper studies the determinants of regional innovation in Europe through a knowledge production function approach that combines factorial analysis and regression. Our dependent variable are the patents while we used initially 21 explanatory variables that were converted by a factor analysis into five non-observable hypothetical variables reflecting five important aspects of the innovation systems: the National environment, the Regional environment, Innovating firms, Universities and the R&D done by Public Administration. Our results show that all factors have a statistically significant effect on the production of knowledge (patents), although they present very different impacts. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available