Over the last years, numerous national governments as well as the European Union have initiated so-called missions to guide transformation processes and tackle grand challenges, such as climate change, digitalization and an aging society. Previous research on mission-oriented innovation...

In addition to traditional, cluster-oriented approaches, both cross-sectional technologies ("key enabling technologies") and societal challenges ("grand challenges") are becoming increasingly important for regional innovation strategies. A more complex, multi-dimensional approach of regional...

This volume presents different international approaches to organise public-private-partnerships (PPP) in research and innovation. Besides the German research programme "Forschungscampus", other partnership models from the USA, Korea, China, Australia, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Sweden...