information theory-based indicators. The purpose of this paper is to portray the landscape of West African Triple Helix innovation … within the selected innovation systems. Design/methodology/approach The collaboration between university, industry and … all the selected innovation systems present synergy; however, the extent is limited and varies over countries. Research …

We used mutual information and transmission power as indicators of knowledge circulation between innovation actors. The …

Cassava is regarded as the crop of last resort for millions of marginal farmers and their domestic animals in tropical … regions. The Cassava Biotechnology Network (CBN) is addressing the major socioeconomic and agronomic challenges of this orphan … crop by bundling the scarce resources available and uniting the major stakeholders involved in cassava breeding, production …

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany …-based innovation policies are receiving, it is worth answering two main ques-tions. First, are firms with a relatively high level of … social capital likely to be more in-novative? Second, do companies pursuing innovation in partnership innovate more? This …

articulated in relation to the dynamics of medical innovation and enriched by an empirical study on the long-term evolution of …