Innovation serves many purposes. In this paper we study new varieties of innovation and innovation policy which address … terms of multiplicities of innovation, governance and societal challenges. They serve as living labs and lead-markets for … solutions to societal challenges. The identified and analysed cases of social innovation initiatives in these metropolitan areas …

This paper reviews the current state of indicators of the activity of innovation and how they are presented for use in …, which raises questions about the definition of innovation. This is followed by a review of plans for the evolution of … innovation indicators and their use over the next few years. These plans, national and international, are diverse and this leads …

in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …

knowledge re-use, adaptation and embedment in many emerging and developing countries involving efforts at local innovation, is … in many ways similar to, and reminiscent of the development of the many innovation policy tools in European countries and … regions. The first policy challenge, we refer to as "recherche sans frontières"; the second one as "innovation for local …

and industrial structure, the paper applies a framework for innovation system dynamics that investigates in detail the … introduction of scope clauses that created a niche for the 50-seat market. Bombardiers radical innovation, the business-jet based …

This study investigates the impact of innovation support programmes on SME innovation in traditional manufacturing … industries in seven EU regions. Recent literature identifying sources of potential government failure in innovation policy … suggests that the effects of public support measures to increase private innovation may be disappointing. Our results are …