. Among others, countries like the UK, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark established science and innovation … diplomacy agencies. We comparatively examine three cases: The UK's Science and Innovation Network, the Swiss SWISSNEX, and the … Danish Innovation Centre Denmark. We look for similarities and dissimilarities in terms of organisational setup, locations …

investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

engaging in virtually no collaboration in the area of innovation, and others engaging quite intensively with academic partners …

National Innovation System, with particular attention devoted to the question of finance and policy initiatives. We then turn …

knowledge acquisition, and barriers to innovation and development. In spite of a relative lack of government support, we find …