(education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the … gap between the existing literature on competences on the one hand, and the real world of innovation policy-making on the … competence-building in the innovation process from a perspective of innovation systems; it examines how governments and public …

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 …

The purpose of this article is to discuss the different types of instruments of innovation policy, to examine how … and design of the instruments in relation to the formulation of innovation policy. The article argues that innovation … policy instruments must be designed and combined into mixes in ways that address the problems of the innovation system. These …

(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 …

&D centres in developing countries. The existing and rather limited literature on globalization of innovation provides four …/regional system of innovation. The empirical research presented in this paper reveals that none of these arguments can fully explain … innovation systems framework. …

This paper sheds light on the role of the regional innovation system in facilitating the Bangalore Software clusters … innovation profile. Recent research has documented that Bangalore has become one of the most important IT clusters outside the US … discussing the role of policy interventions in supporting innovation in the software cluster and, more specifically, the …

This paper is concerned with the changing role of regional innovation systems and regional policies in supporting the … value chains. Special attention is paid to policies supporting the emergence and development of the regional innovation … system in this transition process. Regional innovation systems in developing countries have very recently started to be …

development of regional innovation systems in developing countries, focusing the discussion on the Bangalore software cluster …. Innovation systems research has paid significant attention to the importance of universities and other publicly financed research …, sustaining and deepening Bangalores regional innovation system for the IT-service and software industry embedding the discussion …

competing on innovation in the global value chain; special attention is paid to clustered SMEs. By comparing 4 clusters in …