The purpose of this paper is to reach better general understanding of the institutions and processes needed to develop and commercialise nanosciences and nanotechnologies. This knowledge may prove useful to guide the actions of public and private agents. In order to analyse the paths followed in...

In the present article, we use a dynamic approach to analyse the topography of regional/local nanotechnologies clusters through the agents that make them up. These agents include firms of different sizes and characteristics, universities, research centers and intermediary organizations...

Carbon nanotubes and graphene are often regarded as materials with some of the best properties for the development of applications in a wide variety of sectors. Research on carbon nanotubes and graphene leads to an increase in the application of nanotechnologies and prompts higher expectations...

Since its beginnings, economics, as a scientific discipline, has imported knowledge from other sciences (i.e. physics, biology, ecology, mathematics, etc.). Our aim is to bring the methodological tools of the thermodynamics in areas as the innovation. Moreover, these tools can be extended to...

This paper focuses on the climate change challenge faced by Central & Eastern European countries both those inside the European Union and those outside it. They have enormous energy intensity and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly from energy production, which is oil, and worse,...

Today, interesting and important interconnections have been made that promise great leaps forward for innovation systems and entrepreneurial ecosystems - especially operating at the regional or sub-national level of the space economy. Of course, there are politics in such relationships. Most...

This article analyses three recent shifts in what called the geography of "Big Things", meaning the contemporary functions and adaptability of modern city centre architecture. We periodise the three styles conventionally into the fashionable "Starchitecture" of the 1990s, the repurposed...

In her study of "Surveillance Capitalism", Shoshana Zuboff cites Google´s parent firm Alphabet´s legal customer-purchase agreement for the parent firm´s Nest thermostats. These impose "oppressive privacy and security consequences" requiring sensitive information to be shared through...

The aim of this paper is to attempt to understand why the popular academic and policy field of promoting, studying and evangelising "entrepreneurship" should have been associated with great success but, in the past twenty years or more in many advanced economies, so much failure. From the US to...

This paper brings together two related bodies of theory that assist understanding of processes of socio-technical system change on the global scale. These are, first, the Global Value Chain perspective (GVC) that has now mutated into Global Production Networks (GPN) and, more recently, Global...