To tackle the European Union's innovation system weaknesses in the commercialization of the research results, in 2009 … the European Commission (EC) has launched an open call for the creation of 2-3 Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs …), the operative level of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). KICs are innovation ecosystems made of …

The second larger Estonian R&D and Innovation Strategy ‘Knowledge-based Estonia 2007-2013' is aimed at continuing the …-side innovation policies in helping to advance commercial development and innovation …

The concept of innovation is as omnipresent in the media, in politics and in the economy as it is intangible and fuzzy … observe an ongoing and increasingly complex co-evolution of technological innovation, enabling technologies and socio …-economic structures of society, which all have high impacts on the form of innovation (products, product architectures, organizational and …

Innovation is a collective process that entails the coordination of distributed knowledge across diverse organizations …. Technology infrastructures provide innovation systems with governance mechanisms to create and sustain complementarities across … otherwise dispersed competences. The paper presents innovation platforms as a specific case of technology infrastructure …

appearances (innovative management, innovation culture, innovative policy, and innovative factors) as well as the performance of …

This paper reviews existing innovation metrics at the company-level and country-level, and proposes a system of … signposts of innovation to help executives with a guiding framework and data resources for evaluating and planning innovation … of innovation activities that today's businesses undertake. We also incorporate input from The Conference Board members …

This article describes and assesses the management of innovation environments, such as business incubators and science …, technology, and innovation parks, resulting from university-industry-government (UIG) linkages. It also reviews recent literature …, named “Amaral’s Model for Innovation Environment Management” (AMIEM), was applied to five cases in Brazil. The empirical …

this concept was a response to a need for proving economical feasibility of a technological innovation and creation of a …