The role of universities in the system of innovation changed dramatically in the last fifty years. This observation is … the GDR but did not guarantee the success of the system of innovation.This study examines the process of discipline … is posed: To what degree did the two political systems lead to a different approach of the disciplines towards innovation …

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 …

There is no doubt that innovation is nowadays the main determinant ofeconomic growth and that the human resource is as … labourmarket rigidities in the explanation of cross-countries differences in innovation andgrowth performances, and calls for … of a moregeneral policy consensus on competitive markets as the engine of innovation and onmonopolistic distortions as …

level of competition in an industry and the level of innovation inthat industry. Thus, when consolidation changes the level … of competition in an industry wemight expect this to have implications for the level of innovation in that industry. The … industry innovation through funding R&D by industry and in itsown research facilities. We present data on changes to the …

and form of intellectualcompetition, innovation and coordination in the public sciences. However, the nature …

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.... …