The current techno-economic paradigm change represents a great challenge to evolutionary innovation research. Instead of concentrating on the aspect of path dependency, research needs to focus more on the process of path creation. This change in the research perspective is dealt with in the...

Regional development policy whose main objective is to perform an inter- and an intra-regional allocation of activities and results as efficiently and evenly as possible is one of the most important and most complex policies of the European Union. To identify influential factors of the nominal...

As today’s resources are more and more scarce and valuable, there is a global growing concern for environment protection, cultural identity preservation across nations, social responsibility, all in the context of economic efficiency. Sustainability comes thus as a necessity for more and more...