Games of innovation involve four types of organisational players: firms, governments, universities, and nonprofit organisations. Of the four, nonprofit organisations are the least well understood. To capture the contributions of all types of organisational players, I adopt the perspective of a...

Government and nonprofit innovation intermediaries that work to enable the innovativeness of firms include R&D performers such as government research institutes, property-based enablers such as science parks and business incubators, technology transfer offices, economic development...

In the interests of providing government policy makers and research managers with an appreciation of the scope, findings, and value of the academic literature, and of facilitating policy making that is informed by evidence, we conduct a systematic review of the recent academic literature on the...