Covid-19 pandemic has shown how important are public sector capacities and capabilities to react to crises and re-configure existing policies and implementation practices. Prior to the pandemic, policymakers were increasingly turning their attention to challenge-driven innovation policies in...

The Flemish government launched its Spearhead Cluster (SHC) policy in 2017. The aim is to boost strategic sectors by setting up cluster initiatives which coordinate collaborative R&D initiatives. In this paper, we analyze whether becoming a member of such a cluster initiative has an impact on...

In this Discussion Paper, we focus our analysis on the Lattes Platform - a public initiative developed endogenously in the late 1990s which was very innovative - since it is a representative case of a scientific platform and is a paramount tool for the Brazilian scientific system. Although there...