Whereas national and corporate Foresight are established instruments for anticipatory STI policy and innovation strategy respectively, regional Foresight is a rather new phenomena in this arena. Placed in between national and corporate Foresight regional Foresight can be considered to fulfill a...

Many commercially successful innovations are now arising from basic research carried out at universities. The boundary between pure science and applied research is blurred. In this context, governments worldwide have been promoting the concept of synergy between basic research carried out in...

The paper discusses the technological specialization and patent portfolios of the Russian "technograds"- the cities which are the key actors in contributing to the development of new technologies in the country. A patent analysis used for the study allowed us to identify technological domains...