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Regional policy and technology policy increasingly converge into regional innovation policies in the Europe of regions. The comparison of technology-transfer networks in the German regions Baden-Württemberg and the Ruhr with the British region of the North East of England, makes clear that...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, systems of innovation have been used as a framework to explain differences in innovativeness between firms, industries and economies at local, regional, national and supranational levels. The main argument behind the discussions around systems of innovation is...

Based on intensive interviews with industrial and regional actors, this article shows that in two smaller European countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, regional defense conversion efforts have not been common or markedly successful. Defense industrial activity, while regionally concentrated,...

So far, relatively little research has been done on sectoral differences of innovation processes. In order to learn more about these differences, we apply the <italic>knowledge base</italic> concept which helps us to characterize the nature of critical knowledge that is indispensable for innovation activities....

Wind energy-related employment has been surging recently in Germany: it rose from 9200 in 1997 to 90,000 in 2007 and is estimated to be 112,000 in 2020. The industry particularly emerged in coastal, Northern Germany. Recently, big hopes have been particularly set on the offshore wind energy...