caa a22 4500 475838688 CHVBK 20180406123855.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s001689900015 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s001689900015 Frenkel Amnon Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. (e-mail: amnonf@techunix.technion.ac.il), IL aut Can regional policy affect firms' innovation potential in lagging regions? [Elektronische Daten] [Amnon Frenkel] Abstract.: The initiation of innovation in lagging regions has become one of the most pressing issues in regional policy. Several studies have attempted to identify the factors that influence the creation and development of product innovation in firms located in lagging regions. The identification of these factors could assist regional decision-makers in promoting technological innovation in such regions.  The research question investigated in this study is whether the effectiveness of such regional policies is related to the degree of regional innovation potential and innovativness. This paper tries to deal with this central question by implementing an extended empirical model developed by the author. The Extended Model combines two prevailing probability models: LOGIT and Bayesian decision theory.  The data analyzed in the paper were collected from a field survey of a sample of 211 industrial firms located in the northern region of Israel. In the first stage of the analysis, the model was used to identify variables influencing product innovation; the second stage investigates changes in the probability of producing innovations in the defined region. The results of the analyses point to the effectiveness of a regional policy that could promote and support the creation of factors fostering technological innovation in selected industries in lagging regions. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 https://doi.org/10.1007/s001689900015 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s001689900015 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Frenkel Amnon Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. (e-mail: amnonf@techunix.technion.ac.il), IL aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer