Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gustavo Da Silva Motta Author-X-Name-First: Gustavo Da Silva Author-X-Name-Last: Motta Author-Name: Pauli Adriano Da Almada Garcia Author-X-Name-First: Pauli Adriano Da Almada Author-X-Name-Last: Garcia Author-Name: Maxwel De Azevedo-Ferreira Author-X-Name-First: Maxwel De Author-X-Name-Last: Azevedo-Ferreira Author-Name: Mariana Passos Neves Gomes Author-X-Name-First: Mariana Passos Neves Author-X-Name-Last: Gomes Author-Name: Camila Carvalho Oliveira Santos Author-X-Name-First: Camila Carvalho Oliveira Author-X-Name-Last: Santos Title: Investigation of regional development in Brazil: a patento-scientometric approach Abstract: Brazil's underdevelopment can be partly blamed on a low level of investments in research and development, causing its technology structure to be relatively backward in terms of innovation. The 'metal-mechanical complex', located in the South Fluminense Mesoregion (SFM) of the state of Rio de Janeiro, is recognised for its high economic importance to the country due to the presence of factories owned by large multinational and national companies and the corresponding group of firms supplying goods and services to them. The objective of this study was to assess the mesoregion's technological development through comparison of eight high-tech projects (four in the SFM and four in other parts of the state) that received financial support from the funding agency FAPERJ to produce innovative products or processes. This analysis first relied on computing scientometric and indicators and then involved comparing the efficiencies of the new firms by data envelopment analysis (DEA). The results revealed that the SFM, although highly industrialised, does not have a compatible level of technological development. Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development Pages: 1-21 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2019 Keywords: innovation; technological development; technology-based projects; South Fluminense Mesoregion; SFM; Brazil; patento-scientometric approach; bibliometrics. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=102573 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijirde:v:9:y:2019:i:1:p:1-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dimitrios G. Ierapetritis Author-X-Name-First: Dimitrios G. Author-X-Name-Last: Ierapetritis Title: Social capital, regional development and innovation in Greece: an interregional analysis Abstract: The term social capital tends to appear more and more in international literature as a major factor for accessing new sources of knowledge and information, creating innovation and supporting regional innovation systems. The main objective of this paper is to contribute insights to this stream of research by testing empirically the impact of social capital on innovation at the level of NUTS-2 and more specifically, on the 13 regions of Greece. The paper begins by defining social capital along with the various forms that this can acquire, the ways that social capital is measured internationally as well as its role in regional development. The above is followed by a close study of the contribution of social capital to the diffusion of knowledge and the strengthening of regional innovation. Finally, by evaluating and exploiting the results of the recent researches by the European social survey (ESS) and the regional innovation scoreboard (RIS) on the 13 Greek regions (NUTS-2) the paper will firstly present the available social capital reserves, secondly the most recent regional innovation performance and thirdly it will test to what extent social capital can be a source of high performance of regional innovation. Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development Pages: 22-58 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2019 Keywords: innovation; social capital; regional social capital performance; Greece. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=102612 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijirde:v:9:y:2019:i:1:p:22-58 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthias Georg Will Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Georg Author-X-Name-Last: Will Author-Name: Robert B. Mellor Author-X-Name-First: Robert B. Author-X-Name-Last: Mellor Title: Differences in creating product innovations versus process innovations across European industries Abstract: The performance of 1,200 representative firms in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Slovak Republic was analysed, differentiating between product innovation and three different forms of process innovations. This data was joined to the quality of societal institutions of the relevant country. With respect to product innovations, institutional quality exhibits mediate effects through financing of R%D and the design of the organisational structure, with larger technical/R%D departments being found in firms in environments of high societal quality. However firms located in European countries with a relatively low institutional quality, develop predominantly more process innovations. Regarding industrial sector, the data reveals that firms in the wholesale and trade areas follow quite different innovation patterns compared to manufacturing/production. Manufacturing firms make predominantly product innovations, often financed by external sources, whereas firms in wholesale and trade make more process innovations and these tend to be financed by internal sources. Journal: Int. J. of Innovation and Regional Development Pages: 59-84 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2019 Keywords: innovation management; product innovations; process innovations; institutions; SEMs. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=102622 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijirde:v:9:y:2019:i:1:p:59-84