as follows: • Evaluation of the impact of public R&D support on innovation in selected European countries; • Identifying … whether EU research and innovation programs have industrydriven priorities and address societal challenges, how they impact … innovation and to what extent SMEs are involved in these programs; • Evaluation of the advancement in the construction of …

locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how … knowledge in corporate innovation processes, and addresses the challenges of embeddedness. -- The expert contributors draw on … between innovation in companies and regional studies. Significantly, the book also establishes a link between two important …

-- 11. Platforms of innovation : some examples / Philip Cooke and Carla De Laurentis -- 12. The matrix : evolving policies … innovation. This, the authors argue, represents the rise of an externalized 'matrix' of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and … industries. The book also examines related economic governance research that reveals the catalytic role that leading innovation …

analysis regarding the implications of knowledge-intensive service systems and the skills required for innovation within these …