This paper is about the implications of a nation’s approach to defence procurement for its national innovation system … and the innovation that occurs within it. Defence procurement involves choices over what is to be purchased (the product … implications for innovation performance among the firms that supply Defence, or have the specialist capability to deal with Defence …

Departing from a number of theoretical perspectives from which rationales for science,technology and innovation (STI …

Interaction between private and public organisations is a fundamental source of innovation and a crucial framing …

Innovation policy has become tremendously differentiated. This is to some extent a consequence of a more systematic … understanding of the innovation process as described in innovation system approaches (see Chaminade/Edquist 2008), which has led to … a broad understanding of functions of innovation systems and related policies to support these functions (e.g. Hekkert …

The literature on Regional Systems of Innovation (RSI) has produced an extensivebody of research in recent years and … institutional, systemic andevolutionary approaches to innovation and learning.... …

knowledge underpinning its activities. In so doing welook beyond studies based on the assumption of exogenous networks and delve … perspective and views networks as constructs aimed at the coordination of knowledge;accordingly, network structure is an emerging … articulated in relationto the dynamics of medical innovation and enriched by an empirical study on the long-termevolution of …

transformation both of the organisations and the way they implement the innovation, and its implication. This paper attempts to … diffusion of innovation and the effects on the practice of VOs and voluntary movements.... …

Innovation is still an obscure concept although many efforts have been made to improve the understanding and … to explore the determinants and features of the innovation developed by service enterprises. Many empirical studies that … form the basis of recent literature on innovation in services have proved the existence of a wide range of innovation …

This paper investigates how firms adapt their innovation strategies to cope with constraints in national institutional … they use institutional advantages to focus on low-risk innovation and build deeper competences while also pursuing high …-risk innovation strategies.... …

“Production” and “transfer” of knowledge, and the role of institutions, are two major conceptual tenets of Innovation … on results of different disciplines, the paper critically discusses ‘knowledge’ and ‘institution’ concepts used in that …