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Drivers of innovation: A comparative study on innovation in European cities by means of multi‐criteria analysis
Author(s) -
Nijkamp Peter,
Reggiani Aura
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9663.00118
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , regional science , economic geography , multivariate statistics , business , industrial organization , geography , computer science , archaeology , machine learning
This paper addresses the issue of innovative behaviour of firms in an urban European context. It aims to identify key factors for innovation at the local level, based on micro survey information from firms. In seeking prominent explanatory variables for entrepreneurial innovation in various classes of European cities, a particular multivariate method, Regime analysis, is employed. This special type of multi‐criteria method appears to be a fruitful tool for comparative analysis and generates a wide range of interesting empirical results on innovation factors in European cities.