The present paper discusses an important part of the framework conditions for innovation in a number of European countries (France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom) as well Japan and the United States through a comparison of the development of the financial systems in these...

Traditionally innovation system have been analysed either as rooted in the R&Dsystem or the production system. This paper suggests a broader approach to national innovation systems and analyse these as rooted in constellation of a national production structure and human resource development...