This study defines the aims and tools of a new innovation policy and identifies examples of good policy practice recently implemented in OECD countries.

Interactions between firms and universities are key building blocks of innovation systems. This book focuses on those interactions in developing countries, pres

The slowdown of growth in Western industrialized nations in the last twenty years, along with the rise of Japan as a major economic and technological power (and

Since its emergence in the 1980s the national innovation system (NIS) concept has become widely used by scholars and policymakers alike. In the course of its ra

Policies to stimulate innovation at national and local levels must both build on and contribute to the dynamics of innovative clusters. This book presents a ser