The governance of Germany's public ‘knowledge system’ is characterised by a variety of coordination needs and modes in a layered and fragmented federal system. Competences are divided between horizontal sectoral ministries and agencies at the federal level and between federal level and the...

This article argues that the intervention to generate structural innovations and with it the structural interaction between organisation actors can be understood as attempts to tackle system failures in innovation systems, mainly as regards networking and actor capabilities. However, these...

Governments act on the increasing internationalisation of science and technology, albeit slowly. This paper is based on a study of strategies and initiatives set in motion by key actors in science and technology policy in eight countries. These activities could be directed at attracting or...