Public and corporate actors are faced with pressing questions concerning innovation policy and the return of R&D investment. To answer these questions, new perspectives are necessary to overthrow received wisdom. This first European seminar on “Geography of Innovation” invites scholars from all disciplines to present their work on local and global processes of innovation, on the interaction between science, technology and policy, on clusters, entrepreneurship and competitiveness, and on green growth and sustainability. To further our understanding of innovation processes, the seminar intends to bring together a variety of disciplines including economic geography, regional science, economics of innovation, network theory and management science. We further welcome new contributions to the establishment of (European) databases as well as new analytical tools, including spatial econometrics, network analysis, (interactive) visualisation, bibliometrics and policy evaluation tools.
Moreover, with the objective of concretely supplement and improve the localised innovation indicators which are useful for the elaboration and follow-up of public policies, the European seminar intend to gather together, researchers, data providers and public actors in innovation, thereby permitting exchange and confrontation of experiences in terms of data, methods and observation practices in the various European countries.
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