The Regional Innovation Valleys (RIVs) initiative is one of 25 actions of the New European Innovation Agenda (NEIA). It aims to harness the full innovation potential across Europe, connecting less and more innovative regions and addressing social challenges through cutting edge technology....

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the integration of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into Sabadell's territorial policies, focusing on the development of an inclusive innovative ecosystem. Through various methodologies, the study seeks to enhance territorial specialization in design...

The growing importance of micro-enterprises in the business world requires a more thorough study and comprehension of the open innovation (OI) concept in such small environments. Innovation ecosystems (IE), applied to open innovation circles, are fundamental in co-creating value, knowledge,...

The concept of biointelligence as a convergence of life, information and engineering sciences was defined just over five years ago. Since then, several studies and scientific publications have dealt with the term and future implications of the topic. However, there has been a lack of a targeted...

This study investigates the interrelationships between institutional frameworks, innovation ecosystems, and stakeholder coordination in enhancing the global competitiveness of Ethiopia's Integrated Agro-Industrial Parks (IAIPs) in Yirgalem and Bulbula. A mixed-methods approach combining...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of Aragón's Regional Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization (RIS3) 2014-2020 by applying Social Network Analysis (SNA) to a comprehensive dataset of regional, national, and European competitive public projects involving Aragonese entities between...

Regionale Innovationssysteme (RIS) beschreiben das Zusammenwirken von Unternehmen, dem Hochschulsystem und staatlichen Akteuren, wobei die Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer Region im Fokus steht. Dabei ist die Weitergabe innovativen Wissens aus dem Bereich von Forschung und...

Die Studie untersucht die Bedeutung einer innovativen Chemie für die Zukunftsfähigkeit der deutschen Volkswirtschaft. Diese Zukunftsfähigkeit hängt ganz wesentlich davon ab, wie gut sich Deutschland im internationalen Innovationswettbewerb behaupten kann und inwieweit es durch neue Produkte,...

Regions play an important role in the global economy by driving research and innovation policies through a major tool, the Regional Innovation System (RIS). The RIS is a social system that encompasses the systematic interaction of the various organizations that comprise it, to improve local...

The paper examines the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the agribusiness innovation ecosystem in Central Visayas, Philippines, underlining their contributions, the challenges the faced, and the opportunities. Using a mix-methods approach, the research reveals that HEIs serve as...

The Regional Innovation Valleys (RIVs) initiative is one of 25 actions of the New European Innovation Agenda (NEIA). It aims to harness the full innovation potential across Europe, connecting less and more innovative regions and addressing social challenges through cutting edge technology....

Science, technology, and innovation (STI) systems are fundamental to the economic development of any nation. However, their high hierarchy and centralization cre‑ ate inequities for the more dispersed regions to access their benefts. Traditional approaches to STI system decentralization have...

This research aims to provide an ecosystem-inspired approach to digital transformation (DT) for sustainable innovations by reviewing state-of-the-art research. Focusing on DT innovation pathways for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a DT innovation roadmap incorporating various notions of...

Innovation and entrepreneurship can play a central role in revitalizing rural areas and turning them into places of opportunity. This report, part of the Startup Village Forum initiative's research activities, explores four cases of rural villages or groups of villages on their journey toward...

The bioeconomy is emerging as a significant driver of economic growth and sustainability thinking globally and in East Africa. Leveraging bioscience knowledge, tools and techniques, research organisations and start-ups are developing improved bio-based products including crop varieties, as they...

Start-ups, as small, new companies, suffer from liabilities of size and lack of experience when entering market competition. Research has suggested that relationships with other organisations might be a solution to balance such liabilities. While several studies underline the importance of...

Der Bericht analysiert Unternehmensdynamiken in Deutschland und im Speziellen hinsichtlich der deutschen Wissenswirtschaft. Dabei werden Informationen zum Gründungs- und Schließungsgeschehen in Deutschland von 2005 bis 2022 bezüglich unterschiedlicher Branchen und Bundesländer untersucht und...

The Swiss Innovation System is the most powerful instrument to achieve continuous improvements in material well-being for citizens in Switzerland, and for addressing challenges such as protection against cyberattacks or providing clean energy. Yet, the Swiss Innovation System and its successes...

Purpose This work aims to analyze the university-industry interaction in innovation ecosystems. The problem under study addresses how agents can operate in university-industry interactions to enhance the connections, specifically in the aspect of operational mechanisms of an innovation...

This research paper aims to investigate the impediments faced by innovation-driven enterprises in Thailand and to explore the current measures, policies, and mechanisms related to innovation-driven enterprises (IDEs)' development both domestically and internationally. The study encompasses a...

Knowledge and innovation have become a significant source of modern regional development. The paper aims to study the spatial association of innovation and model innovation, besides critiquing regional innovation policy, using the regional knowledge production function approach. At the level of...

This article studies the integration of Hidden Champions - little-known highly innovative global market leaders - in rural regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany. These firms are analyzed in relation to their integration into a RIS framework, which differentiates two subsystems: knowledge...

Regionale Innovationssysteme (RIS) beschreiben das Zusammenwirken von Unternehmen, dem Hochschulsystem und staatlichen Akteuren, wobei die Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer Region im Fokus steht. Dabei ist die Weitergabe innovativen Wissens aus dem Bereich von Forschung und...

Geographical proximity exerts a substantial influence on structural evolution, developmental trajectory, and pace of sociotechnical system growth. This study explores this aspect within the context of the development of forest biomass-based biofuel technology, employing a Technological...

In our paper, we examine the simultaneous impact of the agglomeration economy (AE) and the innovation ecosystem (IE) on the competency development of SMEs in the Piemonte region in three high-tech sectors: aerospace, mechatronics, and automotive. This study focuses on the critical challenge for...

This article explores how eco-innovation practices are integrated into different industrial ecosystems in different national and regional contexts, and the role of the quintuple helix model in this integration. The research examines the collaborative interaction of academia, industry,...

Aus früheren Untersuchungen ist bekannt, dass das Handwerk in vielerlei Hinsicht eine stabilisierende Funktion für ländlich-periphere, strukturschwächere Regionen hat. In der Fläche außerhalb der Ballungszentren ist das Handwerk damit ein wichtiger Faktor für den Abbau regionaler...

This paper presents a research framework to analyse the role of Social Innovations more comprehensively in addressing 'grand societal challenges' and related regional development issues. Based on the assumption that Social Innovations are particularly suited to tackling the 'grand societal...