This paper addressed the need for research regarding the role of associations in innovation systems. As defined here … joint objectives and positively influence their (regional) innovation system. In the innovation system's perspective, these … level of the innovation system and the micro level of individuals. Against the background of economic and social theory …

regional focus in national innovation policy, the objective of the paper is to analyze the recent developments of universities …

Taking the implications of the cohesion policy framework for innovation governance as a starting point, it is the … mix of different innovation policy measures, supporting all innovation policy tasks with relevance to regional development …. In both regions innovation policy is not a new task, but Saxony as well as Bavaria can look back to a quite long …