Kitagawa F. (2007) The regionalization of science and innovation governance in Japan?, Regional Studies 41, 1099-1114. Traditionally a country that has favoured the centralized national direction of industry-science relationships, Japan is gradually transforming its innovation system with the...

Design is increasingly gaining recognition as a fruitful means to improve business performance. Technology-based firms are an important source of innovation, and therefore it is important to develop a means to study the relationship between technology-based firms' emphasis on design as an...