The paper discusses demand and demand conditions for innovation as well as demand basedpolicies for innovation in the context of the EU CEE countries. Far from regarding demand policiesas a simplistic silver bullet, this paper argues that the EU CEEC catch up process could potentiallybe...

Innovation policy has become tremendously differentiated. This is to some extent a consequence of a more systematic understanding of the innovation process as described in innovation system approaches (see Chaminade/Edquist 2008), which has led to a broad understanding of functions of innovation...