This paper examines the changing roles of universities against current policy and institutional landscapes in Japan … science and innovation policies. The variety of forms of university-industry linkages and spatial relationships that … universities are forming with regional stakeholders are illustrated. The development of a new research system in Japan throughout …

We aim at gaining our understanding on the relationship between innovation capacity, entrepreneurial activity and … to incremental innovation-type R&D activities (i.e., exploitation of synthetic–knowledge) emerged in non …-knowledge leading to radical innovation) which particularly take place in universities and technology centers sited in urban (or nearby …

industries in countries with different financial systems; the US (with a market based financial system) and Japan (with a more … to R&D productivity in common with Japan. This may be interpreted as these industries’ are taking a ‘longer term view’ on … their research than the US’. The sensitivity to cash flow, however, is possibly more pronounced in Sweden than in Japan and …

plagued by low pay-off in relation to very high investments in R&D and innovation efforts. Using new data, we show that this … related to the Swedish paradox. We take account of the history of innovation policy in Sweden and – on the basis of the …

economic development: we will analyse the geographic convergence that characterises the “green innovation”. Firstly we will … of innovation –the regional innovation–, thanks to the construction of the train, seems to have been the evolutionary …