In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

environment favourable to competition, innovation and technology transfer. For Western Europe, it was increasing trade and …

. Among others, countries like the UK, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark established science and innovation … diplomacy agencies. We comparatively examine three cases: The UK's Science and Innovation Network, the Swiss SWISSNEX, and the … Danish Innovation Centre Denmark. We look for similarities and dissimilarities in terms of organisational setup, locations …

The European Union, in the face of mounting geo-political and climate challenges, needs a more effective innovation … policy. Currently, its broad experimentalist approach to innovation policies gives Member States and regions autonomy for …. Thus, European countries face quite a substantial rethinking of how innovation policy is designed and implemented through …

as follows: • Evaluation of the impact of public R&D support on innovation in selected European countries; • Identifying … whether EU research and innovation programs have industrydriven priorities and address societal challenges, how they impact … innovation and to what extent SMEs are involved in these programs; • Evaluation of the advancement in the construction of …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …