Recent contextual developments constitute a backdrop of change for the Dutch electricity system. Institutional change driven by liberalization, changing economic competitiveness of the dominant fuels, new technologies, and changing end-user preferences regarding electricity supply are some...

Epidemiology is an interdisciplinary science with significant contributions to other academic disciplines. Theoretical tools from epidemiology have been used for the study of the rate and extent of propagation of computer virus infections and of the processes that determine how social networks...

In today’s globalizing and hypercompetitive marketplace, knowledge, and learning are the only capabilities that can provide sustained competitive advantage. “Knowledge” is the content of learning and a firm gains competitive superiority either by knowing something that its competitors do...

Many innovation studies have focused on a narrow concept of technological innovation, such as the generation of patents or the introduction of new products. The performance of firms, however, often depends on innovation defined from a broader perspective. This includes process, organizational,...

This paper aims to compare governmental support measures toward enhancing university–industry cooperation in Europe. We intend to identify patterns and dynamics of governmental support measures comparing policies in 23 European countries. The main database used is the Inventory of Research and...

This paper addresses a complex problem of finding optimal or suboptimal strategies and business decisions of (1) entrepreneurs, inventors, innovators, and other “economic actors” who are engaged, or want and can be engaged, in innovation activities, and (2) policymakers who want to secure...

Smart Specialisation has become the catchword for innovation policy approaches to optimally leverage regional dynamism in knowledge creation and application, and thus achieving comparative advantages in a globalised knowledge economy. It can support innovation policies putting the grand societal...

This paper adds to the emerging discussion of the Quadruple Helix framework by arguing for a clear distinction between the intermediators (“consortia”) that coordinate public, academic, industrial, and civil society resources and those actors that belong to the Civil Society Helix. The...

Research on innovation processes suggests that the most significant activities and decisions are made in the initiation phase, i.e., what is often termed as the “fuzzy front-end” (FFE) of innovation, and at the finalization phase, i.e., commercialization. If these assumptions are valid, one...

Using panel micro data fro\m Community Innovation Survey in the Czech Republic, Norway and the UK, we estimate dynamic random effects models, in which the innovation output of firms is the function of their cooperative behaviour and other observed characteristics, while accounting for unobserved...