This paper analyses the co-evolution of science, technology and innovation policy and industrial structure in a small, open, resource-based economy (Norway). The contributions of the paper are threefold. First, it develops an evolutionary and historically oriented approach to the study of the...

This paper provides an interpretation of the global pattern of economic growth in the period following 1950. It uses a model in which growth in an individual country depends on a number of different so-called common trends that are representative of the global economy. Although such trends are...

Collaboration with university and other public research organisations seems to have become increasingly important for firms, as the technological interdisciplinarity and complexity, and the competitive pressures to shorten product life increased (Hagedoorn, 1996; Caloghirou et al., 2003). By...