Configurational paths to regional innovation performance: the interplay of innovation elements based on a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach

This paper explores the effect of regional innovation elements on innovation performance from the perspective of configurations. Based on the theory of innovation value chain, this paper divides the innovation process into two stages – technology development and technology commercialisation and proposes the realisation process model of regional innovation performance. Using the statistical data of province-level innovation systems in China, this...