innovation and to mitigate grand challenges. One of the main motivations for the support of Pre-Commercial Procurement schemes … was to use public needs as a driver for innovation. This concept was also introduced as a response to the need to … reinforce the innovation capabilities of the EU, while improving the quality and efficiency of public services. However, there …

The concept of a holistic innovation policy is defined in this article, with discussions of what it is, why it is … relevant, and how it can be implemented to enhance product innovation. It is shown that the innovation systems approach has … diffused rapidly during the latest decades and has completely replaced the linear view in the field of innovation research. The …

The concept of a holistic innovation policy is defined in this paper, and it is discussed what it is, why it is … relevant and how it can be implemented. One of the main conclusions is that the innovation policies in European countries are … still linear (and not holistic), in spite of the fact that the linear view has been completely abandoned by innovation …

plagued by low pay-off in relation to very high investments in R&D and innovation efforts. Using new data, we show that this … related to the Swedish paradox. We take account of the history of innovation policy in Sweden and – on the basis of the …

plagued by low pay-off in relation to very high investments in R&D and innovation efforts. Using new data, we show that this … related to the Swedish paradox. We take account of the history of innovation policy in Sweden and – on the basis of the …

(education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the … gap between the existing literature on competences on the one hand, and the real world of innovation policy-making on the … competence-building in the innovation process from a perspective of innovation systems; it examines how governments and public …

Institutions (including regulations) are constitutive elements of innovation systems, and therefore cornerstones of … innovation policy. Focusing on (soft and hard) regulation, the paper identifies the most salient regulatory areas from the … perspective of the innovation system. When asking about the effects of regulation on innovation, the paper argues that there are …

The purpose of this article is to discuss the different types of instruments of innovation policy, to examine how … and design of the instruments in relation to the formulation of innovation policy. The article argues that innovation … policy instruments must be designed and combined into mixes in ways that address the problems of the innovation system. These …

(especially R&D activities) in the innovation process from an innovation system perspective. It examines how governments and … using knowledge production in their innovation systems. It also examines the critical and most important issues at stake … from the point of view of innovation policy, looking in particular at the unresolved tensions and systemic unbalances …

The vast literature of systems of innovation is rich in theoretical and empirical studies about the complexity and … manner the nature and types of strategic choices that public actors in systems of innovation are facing given the ever … posing to systems of innovation in industrialised and developing countries, past and present. The next section approaches the …