This chapter explores the role of regional innovation systems supporting capability building among indigenous SMEs in …, universities and research centers or among firms in the system of innovation. Empirically, it proposes a new method for comparing … capabilities at organizational and system level. The paper shows that regional innovation systems in developing countries share …

in innovation policy-making during the past decade, many countries in the developed and developing world have been … substantially widening and deepening their innovation policies. The introduction of new and more sophisticated policy instruments … (deepening) has been accompanied by an expansion of the realm of action for innovation policy (widening). The main argument of …

The concluding chapter of the “Small Country Innovation Systems” book develops a comparative analysis that deals with … some extent on issues related to globalization, but devotes most of its attention to innovation policy. The chapter is …

Innovation systems in developing countries differ largely from those in developed countries. A typical difference is … in the innovation system. Scholars in innovation system research agree on the importance of understanding innovation … organisations in supporting different forms of interactive learning and linking relevant actors to each other in emerging innovation …

that innovations tend to be geographically concentrated. Secondly, innovation data based on patent counts indicate that … of e.g. citations received from later patents) bring them a great deal closer to the innovation concept. At the same time …

Most of the studies about industrial clusters and innovation stress the importance of firms geographical proximity and … their embeddedness in local business networks, as factors that positively affect their learning and innovation processes … process of learning and innovation in clusters. This paper contributes to this latter direction of research. It applies social …