The concept of a holistic innovation policy is defined in this article, with discussions of what it is, why it is … relevant, and how it can be implemented to enhance product innovation. It is shown that the innovation systems approach has … diffused rapidly during the latest decades and has completely replaced the linear view in the field of innovation research. The …

globalization of innovation activities and more specifically, on the surge of global innovation networks (GINs). However, hitherto … well as their main characteristics. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy of global innovation networks that takes into … of global innovation networks, observed in seven European countries as well as Brazil, China, India and South Africa. It …

(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 …

(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 …

the environment for innovation and technology transfer. The rationale behind these innovation policies, as the “new …” policies are often called, seems also to have been strongly influenced by a “new innovation paradigm”. Even though innovation …, institutions, cultures, etc. In this text, I elaborate on these issues in an analysis of the development of a “new” innovation …

The concluding chapter of the “Small Country Innovation Systems” book develops a comparative analysis that deals with … some extent on issues related to globalization, but devotes most of its attention to innovation policy. The chapter is …