Institutions (including regulations) are constitutive elements of innovation systems, and therefore cornerstones of … innovation policy. Focusing on (soft and hard) regulation, the paper identifies the most salient regulatory areas from the … perspective of the innovation system. When asking about the effects of regulation on innovation, the paper argues that there are …

(especially R&D activities) in the innovation process from an innovation system perspective. It examines how governments and … using knowledge production in their innovation systems. It also examines the critical and most important issues at stake … from the point of view of innovation policy, looking in particular at the unresolved tensions and systemic unbalances …