Global policy discussions increasingly focus on innovation and the knowledge economy as a driver of long-term growth …. In parallel new forms of innovation processes are emerging, notably open innovation and innovation networks stressing the …

communication technologies (ICT). Against the backdrop of a weakening link between productivity and traditional innovation inputs (e …, work processes and human resource practices. More fundamentally, digitization is changing the way innovation itself is done …, opening the prospect of a long-term increase in the overall rate of innovation. Over time, this will dwarf the benefits from …

Global policy discussions increasingly focus on innovation and the knowledge economy as a driver of long-term growth …. In parallel new forms of innovation processes are emerging, notably open innovation and innovation networks stressing the …

policies to bring the cost of financing innovation more in line with the level that would prevail in the absence of market …

Financing constraints have been discussed as a major obstacle to innovation. Small and medium-sized enterprises and … sense and as instruments for financing innovation. It also discusses implications of these developments for public policy …

This paper focuses on the systems-of-innovation (SI) approach and its policy implications. It introduces the topic by … the innovation process and the division of labour between private and public actors in carrying out SI activities. In this … context, the paper argues that the notion of optimality is irrelevant in an innovation system context and it discusses the …