Regional Innovation Patterns and the EU Regional Policy Reform: Toward Smart Innovation Policies

Regional Policies, Key Levers of Regional Innovation Dynamics

Regions tend to become the relevant space for the analysis of public funding of innovation, as emphasised by numerous recent works. However, it is still to be demonstrated that the regional level is really the right spatial scaling for implementing innovation public policies. The aim of this paper is to provide a series of analytical and empirical elements that could help clarify this issue. Th...

SME policy and the Regional Dimension of Innovation : Towards a New Paradigm for Innovation Policy ?

Based on the empirical findings achieved in a comparative research, involving 40 innovation policy instruments in 11 European regions, this paper exposes the claim for a new innovation policy paradigm and proposes a shift in rationale and in broad orientations for innovation policy, addressing SMEs in their regional context. The main role for innovation policy, which aims to increase the capaci...

Regional Innovation Systems

Regional innovations systems are a response to the emerging view in the 1990s that national innovation systems were not necessarily successful in addressing the challenge of competitiveness in period of globalisation. Indeed, with the emergence of clusters as a local innovation system much of the emphasis on competitive advantage in innovation was predicated on the existence of regional and loc...

Regional, Sectoral Innovation Systems

Today, knowledge economies are a key asset for global competitiveness. Biotechnology is a knowledge-driven sector because it consists of knowledge working on knowledge to create value, decoding in genomics and proteomics being paradigmatic knowledge-based economic activity. Like many other new economy industries such as information and communications technology, new media, and advanced finance,...

European Innovation Policy through the European Regional Development Fund