How innovation programs fail and innovation networks deviate from legal paths is a problem not yet fully understood. The complex interdependence between blockages of innovation and organizational corruption is a novel field of research in innovation studies. Equally, traditional approaches to...

Urban innovation policies reintroduce the role of social entrepreneurs and civil society into innovation studies with regard to the governance of regional innovation and the emergence of new innovation pathways. The research approach integrates the concepts of urban and regional transformation,...

In this paper we discuss the new generation of German innovation clusters as a model that reflects the paradigm of a supervising and even entrepreneurial role of government. The model evolves alongside a predominant programmatic design that postulates strategy driven clusters or virtual regional...

The financial crisis encourages governments to identify innovation programmes that had proven successful in contributing to regional resilience. In this context, the federal programme <italic>Innovative, Regional Growth Core</italic> (<italic>Innovative Regional Growth Core</italic>, <italic>IRGC</italic>) developed under the umbrella of the...</italic>