The determinants of regional innovation in Europe: A combined factorial and regression knowledge production function approach

Research Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 722-735

  Buesa, Mikel ^a   Heijs, Joost ^a   Baumert, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Universidad Católica de Valencia and IAIF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Determinants of innovation; Europe; R D; Regional innovation systems

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; REGIONAL PLANNING;

DEPENDENT VARIABLES; EUROPE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION FUNCTION; REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; REGIONAL INNOVATION; REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 79958851551     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.02.016     Document Type: Article

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