distribution network change, and regional innovation in construction. Findings – Some answers are provided to the questions of why …

marketing and purchasing (IMP) and national innovation system (NIS) were embedded into the Swedish policy context, where the … the schools view the importance of relations between companies, how they perceive the innovation process, their attitude …

journey in innovation, the authors have to start with the interaction itself, that is the exchange process taking place … restrictions, the second is that these aspects can be positively utilised in innovation processes, and the third is their joint … importance to contemporary policy. All innovation processes must bypass and build on existing investments in social and material …

Purpose Previous IMP research has shown that innovation benefits tend to gravitate across organisational, company and … legal borders. However, OECD and EU policy assume that innovation investments will create benefits in close spatial relation … to where these were made. The overall purpose of this paper is to consider how opportunities and obstacles of innovation …

interaction perspective for exploring the interplay between inner and outer networking during the innovation processes. Findings …-producer network. Originality/value This paper contributes to the innovation field by suggesting ways in which practitioners at smaller … user-producer interactions during innovation processes in health care settings.  …

, and that relationships can be used to bridge learning and innovation among actors across projects. Originality/value – The …

Purpose – Previous studies of innovation policy claim that there is a mismatch between the underlying assumptions of … these policies and the reality of how firms involved in innovation operate. The purpose of this paper is to deepen the … knowledge of actual innovation processes in order to contribute to the modification of innovation policies. Design …

Purpose This paper studies how accounting information is used by actors in an innovation process. It investigates how … has shown that accounting was a key ingredient when temporary solutions were formed in the innovation processes. Actors … harmed the innovation. Further, the study also revealed that the use of accounting influenced and was influenced by previous …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a longitudinal case study of a regional innovation policy initiative …, in which ideas with regard to how innovation might be facilitated were changing over time. Through the scrutiny of … aimed at constructing complementary networks for the facilitation of innovation. That is to say, the authors endeavour to …