investigates public policies and pri-vate interventions that sustain innovation in systems of SMEs. See Russo and Rossi (2009 …

We contribute to the debate on innovation theory and policy by exploring, through the interpretative framework provided … by Lane and Maxfield’s theory of innovation (1997; 2005), a set of case studies concerning the implementation of a new … purposes are, on the one hand, to illustrate to what extent this theoretical approach can help us make sense of innovation …

Emilia (henceforth OE) as a crucial one in order to re-examine the interweaving of education, innovation and local …

In innovation processes, exaptations are innovation-development processes through which an initial attribution of new …

Recent developments in innovation theory and policy have led policymakers to assign particular importance to supporting … a policy experiment aimed at supporting innovation networks in the Italian region of Tuscany intends to address some … innovation system, and the success of individual networks in attaining their specific objectives. This innovative approach also …

effective policy interventions. We address our analysis to policies directed at promoting innovation by fostering generative …

those relations for essential support both on production and innovation. We also show also that there is a cognizance of … policies supporting innovation. …

The linear model of innovation has been superseded by a variety of theoretical models that view the innovation process … research as an engine of innovation, to the creation of markets for knowledge goods, to, eventually, the acknowledgement that … support of innovation processes inspired by a complex systems perspective. It does so by analyzing two different examples of …

We investigate to what extent and how the adoption of a complexity-based perspective to innovation (Lane and Maxfield … effective interventions, able to foster innovation processes and to create structures that sustain them over time. We argue that … broad attempts at theorizing innovation processes do not lend themselves to a quick translation into simple ‘policy recipes …