New insights on regional innovation policies

Abstract

The interest in regional innovation policies has progressively increased during the last two decades. We can actually talk about an emerging sub-field within regional innovation studies. As shown in figure 1, the term “regional innovation policy” was barely used in academic papers before year 2000. Nevertheless, since the mid-2000s the growth in the use of this term has been particularly relevant and continuous. The interest in the field is mostly European, since more than 90% of these documents have been published in European countries.