and corporate patents, we find that boundary-spanning knowledge production with academic inventors raises the innovative … involvement helps inventor teams to profit from spatially distant knowledge sources. …

This paper presents a framework to understand the impact of scientific knowledge on the policy-making process, focusing …" conditions for scientific knowledge to achieve impact. The framework is informed by the reflexive institutionalist and the neo …-making organisations that influence the uptake of scientific knowledge and provides an operationalisation to analyse them. The wider …

Innovation plays a crucial role in the transition towards a sustainable energy system. In order to simultaneously … gained interest. However, the complexity of the systems renders it difficult to disentangle the innovation effects of energy … and innovation policies. Here, we outline a unifying framework based on the notion of technological innovation systems. It …

how dependent innovation is on economic growth and what effects a potential long-term economic stagnation or decline may … have on innovation processes and systems. We approach the subject from different angles using mixed methods. First, we … present a quantitative analysis of the linkages between economic growth and innovation activities on a sectoral level, based …

regard to regional innovation policy appear to remain unaddressed. …

Germany, using data from the fourth Community Innova-tion Survey (CIS4). We propose an original econometric methodology, which … process and product innovation. We find a positive effect of cooperation on both types of innovation. This effect is …

Our study of the regional dimension of China's innovation system has in essence yielded five main findings. Firstly … et al. (2008), quoted in the last OECD report (OECD, 2010). In summary, our regional analysis of the Chinese innovation … technological specialisation implies that potentials are present for the future development of knowledge driven clusters at a …