Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …

; Foreword; Introduction: innovation in Brazil: advancing development in the 21st century; Part I The political economy of … innovation; 1 Institutions, politics, and state-led innovation; 2 Accelerating innovation in Brazil in the age of global value … chains; 3 Innovation policy in Brazil since 2003: advances, incoherencies, and discontinuities; Part II Towards a knowledge …