Empirical evidence on the evolution of innovation networks within high-tech industries is still scant. We investigate …

Although the area of innovation economics dates back to the early twentieth century with the seminal contributions of … sector economics that puts innovation systems in the eye of public policy decision makers. Although well researched in … academia in recent years, the role that innovation networks play in driving successful processes of innovation and …

Innovation policy is in need for a rational which allows the design and evaluation of policy instruments. In economic … intervene and which instrument should be applied. In innovation policy this rational cannot meaningfully be applied because of … the uncertain and open character of innovation processes. Uncertainty is not a market failure and cannot be repaired …

In this paper we outline a conceptual framework for depicting network development patterns of interfirm innovation … test hypotheses in the innovation and evolutionary economics framework and show that structural positions of firms as well …

We present the results of an empirical study of the national innovation systems of countries in the Iberian Peninsula … previous approaches that used cluster analyses as a methodological framework to analyze national innovation systems from a CSNE … perspective, we use a novel approach based on multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) to rank innovation performance. We show how …