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lies less in strategies that reproduce successful national systems of innovation and more in the capacity for institutional … change to open up new development trajectories with greater emphasis on knowledge and learning. The select group of …-ups supporting innovation, government policies and industrial structures, they share common transitional processes to cope with the …