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 …

It has almost become a research premise, as opposed to a research question, that cities are
the font of economic innovation. This review explores the connection between innovation …

Innovation, as a concept, was introduced by Schumpeter to denote the introduction of five
kinds of possible new approaches by entrepreneurs. The concepts of entrepreneurship and …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and
innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation …

Simmie J.(2005) Innovation and space: a critical review of the literature. Regional Studies
39, 789–804. This review examines the relationships between innovation and space. It does …

This paper analyses why innovations often cluster in a few metropolitan islands of
innovation. The reason for this interest is that a growing body of neo-Schumpeterian …

Visiting Professor, City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney
NSW, Australia about customer needs, overseas markets or new organisational possibilities …

We examine variation in the concentration of inventive activity across 72 of North America's
most highly innovative locations. In 12 of these areas, innovation is particularly concentrated …

The fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development are inextricably linked,
with people, organisations and the environment or their location, forming the main building …

Cities and regions have long captured the imagination of sociologists, economists, and
urbanists. From Alfred Marshall to Robert Park and Jane Jacobs, cities have been seen as …