We review the extant research on the government innovation promotion rationales and impacts. Based on the research literature, the review synthesizes innovation promotion rationales, economic justifications for the intervention, impact evaluations of innovation promotion interventions, and...

An extensive literature addresses the emergence of new technologies in their geographical and cognitive context. Drawing on a spatial innovation systems approach, our paper explores this issue for a newly emerging area, nano-science and nanotechnology. This study draws on a multimethod approach...

Purpose–The authors attempt to answer the basic questions: How is imitation tied to innovation? This question is addressed in the context of China’s innovation system in the 2000s where Chinese industrial firms simultaneously implement innovation and imitation strategies in their new product...