Purpose: Regional development must heavily rely on innovation in order to be competitive and improve the standard of … living of its citizens. However, regional policies regarding innovation is often limited by decelerated decision making … order to continuously evaluate the progress of regions and assess different innovation indicators in shorter periods, a …

accelerated by the forces of globalization. These transition economies can serve as laboratories for understanding the innovation … innovation system development in the context of small catching-up economies. Smallness, path dependency, and latecomer status of … such economies create some inherent limitations for their innovation systems, but these special characteristics can offer …

Arts, democracy, and innovation co-evolve. While for the Triple Helix model the existence of a democracy is not … necessary for knowledge production and innovation, the Quadruple Helix is here more explicit. The way how the Quadruple Helix is … being engineered, designed, and "architected" clearly shows that there cannot be a Quadruple Helix innovation system without …

composed of "elements", which are tied together by a "self-rationale". For innovation, often innovation clusters and innovation … networks are being regarded as important. By leveraging systems theory for innovation concepts, one can implement references … between the elements of a system and clusters (innovation clusters) and the selfrationale of a system and that of networks …