Focusing on North America, Innovation Systems in a Global Context examines the nature of existing systems of innovation …Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Innovation Systems in a Global Context -- PART ONE …: CONCEPTUALIZING INNOVATION SYSTEMS -- 1 Competitiveness, Sustainability, and the North American Regional System of Innovation -- 2 …

Theoretical Backgrounds: Science and Technology Studies, Evolutionary Economics and Sociology -- I.4 A Typology of Transition … Pathways -- I.5 Managing Sustainable Innovation Journeys -- I.6 Reflections: Process Theory, Causality and Narrative …

(co-)evolutionary approaches from environmental and innovation economics to fill this gap. It is argued that both … innovation economics, the third is at least not elaborated appropriately. The consideration of these specialties may help to …Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the …

dynamics, heterogeneity, novelty, and innovation as well as transformation are the most attractive fields in economics today … better understanding of innovation, catch-up, and sustainability, and Schumpeterian economics in general. … selected chapters in this volume reflect the state-of-the-art of Schumpeterian economics dedicated to the three conference …

implications. -- Innovation systems ; knowledge ; institutions ; evolutionary economics …“Production” and “transfer” of knowledge, and the role of institutions, are two major conceptual tenets of Innovation … Systems (IS) literature, which flourished in the evolutionary stream of economics since the eighties of last century. Building …