The innovation systems (IS) approach — developed by Richard Nelson, Christopher Freeman and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, amongst others — has become perhaps the dominant approach in the academic literature for the study of innovation. It has also exerted considerable influence on policy. This paper...

On the threshold of the 21st century, an intensive debate about globalisation of R&D and technology markets is of crucial importance. Globalisation will carry on changing the framework for company strategies and subsequently for p¤ ublic policies. These conference proceedings contain the papers...