According to the Innovation Union Scoreboard, published by the European Commission every year, Sweden has been, and still is, an innovation leader within the EU and one of the most innovative countries in Europe. In the Innovation Union Scoreboard 2014 (European Union, 2014: 5), Sweden has the...

The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical overview of innovation management and the tools that can aid in this endeavour. The paper adopts a user-oriented description, aiming at making SMEs familiar with the possibilities opened by innovation management tools in general and...

Innovation Systems constitute an analysis framework which tries to identify the agents, and the interactions produced among them within an innovation system, endowing thus authorities of a tool for the definition of innovation policies. Accordingly, cooperation or interaction related practices...

In 2006 the European Commission introduced the concept of "Pre-Commercial Procurement" as an instrument to promote innovation and to mitigate grand challenges. One of the main motivations for the support of Pre-Commercial Procurement schemes was to use public needs as a driver for innovation....

Carbon nanotubes and graphene are often regarded as materials with some of the best properties for the development of applications in a wide variety of sectors. Research on carbon nanotubes and graphene leads to an increase in the application of nanotechnologies and prompts higher expectations...

This paper introduces the concept of Epigenetic Economic Dynamics (EED), which is understood as the study of the dynamics generated as a result of the adaptation of organizations to major changes in their respective environments (Gómez-Uranga et al., 2014). One of our objectives when putting...

The aim of this article is to contribute to literature on evolutionary economics with new findings from biogenetics that are becoming increasingly important. Our study centres on epigenetics, showing the new analytical frameworks that could be explored as a result of including it in evolutionary...

This is the final report of the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on 'Innovation-related Procurement', carried out between January 2017 and March 2018 as part of the Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility. The MLE is one of three instruments available under the overarching Policy Support Facility...