This research examines the shifting geography of small firm innovation in the U.S. by tracking the location of small business innovation research (SBIR) and small business technology transfer (STTR) awardees between 2010 and 2024. The SBIR and STTR a...
Personal networks, in contrast to organizational relations, have recently increased their significance to firms by allowing them to acquire external knowledge and strengthen their innovation capacity. Hot debates on the geography and innovation effec...
As a branch of regional innovation theories, social filter theory fundamentally reveals the reasons behind the geography of innovation in different countries and regions. However, compared with other regional innovation theories, social filter theory...
The flipped classroom is a blended learning model that combines metacognitive activities in classrooms with the independent exploration of low cognitive levels outside of school using digital platforms such as videos, slides, articles, and class note...
Sustainable development has become a global consensus, and green innovation is the key starting point, and it has become a ballast stone and stabilizer for regional ecological environmental protection and high-quality economic development. Based on G...
Modelling the complex nature of regional knowledge creation is high on the research agenda. It deals with the identification of drivers for regional knowledge creation of different kinds, among them inter-regional networks and agglomeration factors,...
This article articulates the outcomes of the spatial survey of an EU Interreg-funded project titled “Development of Innovation Eco-Systems and Value Chains: Supporting Cross-Border Innovation through Creative Industries” (DIVA). The study...
Socio-technical transitions towards more sustainable modes of production and consumption are receiving increasing attention in the academic world and also from political and economic decision-makers. There is increasing demand for resource-efficient...
This paper aims to assess the contribution of higher education institutions (HEIs) to the innovation performances in EU regions. Empirical evidence shows that HEIs are a necessary but not sufficient component of regional innovation systems, contribut...
Traditional innovation studies frequently highlight the role of geographic clustering in fostering competitive advantages. However, the sustainability of innovation cannot be understood solely through spatial proximity and requires a broader, multidi...
Digital technology transfer plays a pivotal role in reshaping innovation landscapes and fueling the growth of the digital economy. To investigate this phenomenon, this study draws on data on digital technology transfers from the China National Intell...
The European Union (EU) Framework Programmes represent the ideal platform for exchanging knowledge potentially leading to innovation outcomes, in addition to providing vital research funds for various types of organisations (firms, universities, agen...
Building a great modern socialist country in all respects requires enhancing innovation capacity and establishing a new development pattern, especially in the context of sustainable development. This paper begins by analyzing the theoretical relation...
The sustainability challenge requires experimentation with innovations, followed by an upscaling process towards a broader regime change in the long term. In Europe we observe various regional hotspots for sustainability experimentation which suggest...
The topic of technology development and its disruptive effects has been the subject of much debate over the last 20 years with numerous theories at both macro and micro scales offering potential models of technology progression and disruption. This p...
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As an emerging financial entity, venture capital has a significant impact on regional development. However, the research on venture capital mainly focuses on the fields of finance, management, and economics, and fewer researchers study venture capita...
Geography education research in Latin America is uneven in terms of its thematic focus and country-level contributions. Research demonstrates the necessity for a region-wide prioritization of geography education themes that builds on existing scholar...
Reforms in the Chinese National Entrance Examination to Universities (CNEEU) and curriculum standards have significantly influenced national education. This study investigates the evolutionary stages, research trends, and emerging topics in the study...
This work analyzes the educational role of geography in Spain in addressing climate change and the environmental crisis. While all subjects should address ecological issues, geography, due to its content, objectives, and methods, must take a central...
At all levels of education, teachers are actively involved in improving students’ learning outcomes and developing their own pedagogical experience. As a consequence, the teacher’s role in managing learning difficulties is of particular i...
The use of mobile applications on smartphones has a vast potential to support learning in the field. However, all learning technologies should be properly designed. To this end, we adopt User-Centered Design (UCD) to design a mobile application, call...
Baboons inhabit diverse ecological and socio-political landscapes, from African savannahs and forests to the fragmented habitats of the Arabian Peninsula. This comparative synthesis examines how geography, governance, and adaptation shape human&ndash...
Natural and human-caused disasters have operated as selection mechanisms in the evolution of within-polity and interpolity sociocultural systems by destroying lives and the human-built environment, and they have provoked challenge-and-response dynami...
EFL learners encounter a number of challenges in English for specific purposes, especially in understanding and remembering vocabulary. Therefore, exploring effective ways to improve their vocabulary and its applications is the key area of ESP. VR, a...
Green development efficiency is an essential measure of China’s economy turning into a stage of high-quality development in the new era. This paper establishes a spatial Durbin model based on the new geography economics. It empirically investig...
Augmented Reality is an emerging educational technology that has the potential to provide innovative methods of teaching and create engaging learning experiences. Augmented Reality applications implementing game-based design could enrich education by...
Prior research has shown the importance of innovation policies that promote innovation in renewable energy, such as wind power. We study the impact of the strategic interaction of innovation policies between regional governments in terms of wind ener...
Based on the relevant framework of evolutionary geography, this article explores the direct effect of industrial diversification on urban economic resilience and its indirect effect on urban economic resilience through entrepreneurial spirit. The res...
Practitioners of economic geography recognize innovation as the key factor in sustainable economic development and urging a city to evolve. Urban development evolves from manufacturing-based development to knowledge-based development. Identifying the...
The upscaling of innovations from urban experiments is often assumed to be relatively easy, as if they can simply be ‘rolled out’. In practice, however, upscaling is usually constrained by a range of factors in the wider context of the in...
Constructing an ecological–agricultural innovation system (EAIS) and exploring its evolution patterns are effective ways to overcome the current bottleneck in the world’s agricultural development, which is also an important area of concer...
This study brings together three subjects: urban rehabilitation, social innovation, and new working spaces, envisaging an intersectoral viewpoint, focusing on a European city, Lisbon, arguing that the public sector holds the capacity to consistently...
Promoting green innovation efficiency in urban agglomerations (UAs) can help to ensure the sustainability of China in a competitive but fragile post-industrialization era. This paper applies the Super Slacks-Based Measure model (Super-SBM) to measure...
Digital technologies, the use of which has progressively increased over the last few years, could represent key tools in learning and active citizenship in development processes. In this sense, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have gradually be...
In recent decades, rising social disparities in European cities have structured new forms of urban inequalities. Employing an innovative analysis approach based on statistical, geographical, and spatial methods, this paper aims to explore the social...
Regional green energy technological innovation is an important means to alleviate economic–environmental contradictions. The purpose of this study was to explore the mechanisms of green finance, financial technology, and regional green energy t...
The emergence of the time–space contraction effect from the high-speed railway (HSR) network in China has been beneficial in breaking down regional divisions, thus facilitating the circulation of resources and optimizing resource distribution a...
Physical climate risks are reshaping economic geography and pose a direct threat to the collaborative networks of green innovation that underpin mitigation and adaptation. This paper examines how climate risk differentially affects three core structu...
Landscape and energy are an inseparable and innovative binomial because of the challenges they imply and being the factors we use to measure the quality of our habitat. Presenting the report “Wind Energy and Landscape. Guidelines for a suitable insta...
The hydrogen energy industry, as one of the most important directions for future energy transformation, can promote the sustainable development of the global economy and of society. China has raised the development of hydrogen energy to a strategic p...
Climate change profoundly impacts hydrological systems, particularly in regions such as Croatia, which is renowned for its diverse geography and climatic variability. This study examined the effect of climate change on streamflow rates in two Croatia...
Geography is a significant element of social innovation. This paper focuses on exploring differences and similarities in the characteristics and contributions towards impact of Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs), a form of social innovation...
Public policy for the preservation and development of traditional villages in China has witnessed a shift. That is from the equal distribution of finances to officially recognised traditional villages to the prioritisation of the development of more...
Accurate reservoir water level forecasting is essential for water resource management, flood risk mitigation, and hydropower operation. However, it remains challenging due to pronounced geographical heterogeneity and complex multi-scale temporal dyna...
4 September 2015
This paper combines three location-based cases with literature background focusing on knowledge bases and cities. The paper considers the regional context of the city of Helsinki and its surrounding area (HMA). Analyzed cases include three specific l...
As urbanization has accelerated, China has started to build smart cities, which have formed smart-city clusters. It is critical to coordinate development within smart-city clusters to enhance the efficiency of city-cluster construction. From the pers...
One of the points of attention of didactics in recent times is the application of knowledge that comes from neuroscience. Knowing how the human brain works and how it learns is a valuable knowledge for the design of effective didactic strategies. The...
Urban innovation districts (UIDs) provide an important space for innovation-led development. However, their scale and the heterogeneity within the districts are not easy to capture with administrative units, especially in urban centers of great dense...
This paper seeks to deconstruct the place of midwives as professionals using the novel interdisciplinary lens of the Place Model—an innovative analytical device which originated in education and has been previously applied to both teachers and...
Amid intensified global technological competition and increasing restrictions on cross-border knowledge transfer, enhancing the ability to identify, integrate, and recombine diverse technological knowledge has become a critical strategy for strengthe...
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