topics innovation, catch-up, and sustainability. Innovation is driving catch-up processes and is the condition for a … dynamics, heterogeneity, novelty, and innovation as well as transformation are the most attractive fields in economics today … better understanding of innovation, catch-up, and sustainability, and Schumpeterian economics in general. …

participation of all societal stakeholders. Innovation systems in principle offer a framework for policy designs supporting the … and mass consumption. For this purpose, we introduce the idea of a Dedicated Innovation System, which takes care of … social and responsible innovation. The transformation process will likely compensate for decreasing jobs in traditional …

new knowledge. Modern innovation research is challenged by the need to incorporate knowledge generation and dissemination … processes into the analysis so as to disentangle the complexity of these dynamic processes. With innovation, however, strong … anchored in equilibrium and homogeneity. This text introduces SKIN (Simulation Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks), an …

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 …

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 …