The paper revisits the established framework of the national and regional innovation system (NIS/RIS) in the light of recent insights from innovation research in order to increase its capacity for generating meaningful insights for policy makers and other actors wishing to influence innovation...

The German research system is functionally differentiated into various institutional pillars, most importantly the university system and the extra-university sector including institutes of the Helmholtz Association, the Max Planck Society, the Leibniz Association and the Fraunhofer Society....

This article investigates the emergence of nano S&T in Germany. Using multiple longitudinal data sets, we describe the complete set of research institutions and companies that entered this science-based technology field and the development of their inter-organisational networks between 1991 and...

(1) Der Ruf nach Rechenschaft über Leistungen, Qualität und Nutzen staatlich geförderter Wissenschaft und Forschung wird lauter. Wachsende Autonomiespielräume der Hochschulen durch Einführung von Globalhaushalten gehen Hand in Hand mit neuen, leistungsorientierten Modi der Verteilung von...

The goal to address broader societal problems by mission-oriented research and inno-vation policy has brought new demands for the governance and implementation to the forefront and led to a great diversity of missions. By developing a typology for the clas-sification of different types of...