This paper is about the implications of a nation’s approach to defence procurement for its national innovation system … and the innovation that occurs within it. Defence procurement involves choices over what is to be purchased (the product … implications for innovation performance among the firms that supply Defence, or have the specialist capability to deal with Defence …

Departing from a number of theoretical perspectives from which rationales for science,technology and innovation (STI …

Interaction between private and public organisations is a fundamental source of innovation and a crucial framing …

Innovation policy has become tremendously differentiated. This is to some extent a consequence of a more systematic … understanding of the innovation process as described in innovation system approaches (see Chaminade/Edquist 2008), which has led to … a broad understanding of functions of innovation systems and related policies to support these functions (e.g. Hekkert …

The literature on Regional Systems of Innovation (RSI) has produced an extensivebody of research in recent years and … institutional, systemic andevolutionary approaches to innovation and learning.... …