(education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the … gap between the existing literature on competences on the one hand, and the real world of innovation policy-making on the … competence-building in the innovation process from a perspective of innovation systems; it examines how governments and public …

The vast literature of systems of innovation is rich in theoretical and empirical studies about the complexity and … manner the nature and types of strategic choices that public actors in systems of innovation are facing given the ever … posing to systems of innovation in industrialised and developing countries, past and present. The next section approaches the …

corporate innovation in small technology-based firms. An analysis of 135 Swedish technology-based firms suggests that board … involvement in decision control may influence corporate innovation. The empirical results show that board involvement in strategic … decision control is positively associated with process innovation, while board involvement in financial decision control is …

science and innovation policies. The variety of forms of university-industry linkages and spatial relationships that … the 1990s has led to the emergence of new systems of innovation, in which university-industry linkages have been sought as …

the environment for innovation and technology transfer. The rationale behind these innovation policies, as the “new …” policies are often called, seems also to have been strongly influenced by a “new innovation paradigm”. Even though innovation …, institutions, cultures, etc. In this text, I elaborate on these issues in an analysis of the development of a “new” innovation …

-based development of a region. These parks, it is argued, contribute to fostering technological innovation and transfer and stimulating …