[Introduction] In recent years, the debate on "policy mixes" (Howlett 2005; Borrás 2009; Flanagan et al. 2011) has (re)gained momentum. Increasingly it has moved beyond a development of instrument typologies and 'toolbox approaches' (Howlett 2011; Kroll 2016) to considerations of measures' roles in...

Economic research emphasises the role of increasing returns to scale and critical mass in research and technology development. This suggests that countries benefit from specialising in certain technologies and can thereby bundle available resources. Using the example of the Exzellenzstrategie...

In recent years, an increasing political interest has developed in long-term strategic partnerships for science-industry collaboration in pre-competitive research and devel-opment, driven by a perception of a distinct "blind spot" in many innovation systems. In different contexts, such...

[Introduction] The Seventh EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) was one of the world's largest support programmes for research and development even though the sum of national research budgets in the EU is still higher. More than € 55bn, the third largest...

It is the objective of this paper to analyse the role innovation policy could play in the promotion of regional change, using Germany as a case study, and to develop a typology of structurally weak regions for tailored and regionally specific policy interventions.

Based on a newly compiled set of Chinese data, this paper puts established assump-tions on the role of technological variety in perspective. It does so from two main an-gles. First, by documenting whether, in China, technological variety has played a simi-lar role for regional development as in...

[Einleitung] Das Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung (ISI), die Prognos AG sowie das Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) wurden beauftragt, eine Studie mit "Analysen zum Innovationsstandort Sachsen" zu erarbeiten. In dieser Studie sollen die...

[Einleitung und Fragestellung] Die Digitalisierung ermöglicht, dass Nutzerinnen und Nutzer eine immer wichtigere Rolle im Innovationsgeschehen spielen. Darüber sind sich Innovationsforschung und Manage-mentliteratur einig. Allerdings ist unklar, wie weit die Öffnung von Innovationsprozessen...

Diese Studie analysiert die Bedeutung von Schlüsseltechnologien für die wirtschaftlich-gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland. Sie erläutert die Entwicklung und Zielsetzung des Begriffs und entwickelt eine Heuristik zur Bestimmung von Technologien, die in diesem Sinne aktuell relevant...