In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

environment favourable to competition, innovation and technology transfer. For Western Europe, it was increasing trade and … that state industrial policy in Europe after 1945 had been always one of the most controversial policy fields and that its … enormous differences between nations and regions in Europe, even when they had to face similar challenges. The paradigm shift …

. Among others, countries like the UK, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark established science and innovation … diplomacy agencies. We comparatively examine three cases: The UK's Science and Innovation Network, the Swiss SWISSNEX, and the … Danish Innovation Centre Denmark. We look for similarities and dissimilarities in terms of organisational setup, locations …

The European Union, in the face of mounting geo-political and climate challenges, needs a more effective innovation … policy. Currently, its broad experimentalist approach to innovation policies gives Member States and regions autonomy for …. Thus, European countries face quite a substantial rethinking of how innovation policy is designed and implemented through …