Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster...

Whereas national and corporate Foresight are established instruments for anticipatory STI policy and innovation strategy respectively, regional Foresight is a rather new phenomena in this arena. Placed in between national and corporate Foresight regional Foresight can be considered to fulfill a...

The book explores different approaches towards the ‘entrepreneurial university’ paradigm, explores channels and mechanism used by universities to implement the paradigm and contributes to the public discussion on the impact of commercialization on university research and knowledge. It argues...

Chapter 1: What do Emerging Technologies Mean for Economic Development? -- Part 1: MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING -- Chapter 2: New Materials: the Case of Carbon Fibers -- Chapter 3: Nanotechnology for High-tech Industries: Light Emitting Diodes -- Chapter 4: Technology Use in Traditional...