To match the global demand and supply of innovation, businesses increasingly internationalise their innovation … activities while opening their innovation process by collaborating with external partners (e.g., suppliers, customers …, universities). This book examines what drives these global innovation networks across different industries, how they are related to …

innovation systems impact on the mechanisms for innovation and diffusion of technology, and examines the rationale for policy in …, paying insufficient attention to linkages within national innovation systems and to broader structural reforms. They focus … too much on the small high-tech segment of the economy and too little on fostering innovation and technology diffusion …