Although South Korea has taken various measures related to regulatory reform over the past decades, it has not made significant progress in transforming its regulatory framework. There are still a large number of regulations that are outdated and exist only in South Korea compared to other...

The European Union has established an almost complete system of protection of intellectual property, in part by harmonizing the laws of its Member States, in part by creating its own titles of unitary protection, in the fields of trade marks, designs and patents even by both harmonization and...

In response to the adverse consequences of urbanization, including the production of over 70% of global emissions and the increase in social inequalities, cities have set ambitious missions to devise a set of innovative solutions in their transition to a circular economy. This exploratory...

Carbon lock-in has been used to explain the difficulty in reducing carbon emissions, while mission innovation policies have been proposed to break this path dependency, but the force of lock-in during the mission setting process is largely overlooked. In particular, the power of incumbents to...

The governance of innovation systems reflects upon how decisions are made, the rules that govern who makes decisions are formed, institutions are established and interactions occur. Governance strongly affects how innovation systems emerge and yet has received limited attention. Many actors...

While autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is forecast to widely disrupt transport systems, governments’ roles in influencing innovation have not been examined holistically. This empirical study analyses the perceptions of 34 professionals from government and non-government actors in the U.K....

In times when the role of science in society is more debated than ever in polarized, politicized and partial terms, what is the role for the human right to science and rights-based approaches? The right to science remains poorly understood and neglected in both national and global human rights...