The 'systems of innovation'approach has emerged during the last decade as a way of
studying of innovation processes as an endogenous part of the economy. The approach is …

The paper argues that innovation processes can be cognitive, organisational and/or
economic. They happen in conditions of uncertainty and (in the capitalist system) of …

This book stresses the importance of cognitive and social linkages in the assessment of
innovation within the enterprise, in local, national and global economies. The authors …

This paper looks at the policy implications of viewing innovation as a systemic phenomenon.
The first section provides a brief overview of conceptual approaches used in the recent …

This contribution aims to deal with innovation policy from the perspective of the systems of
innovation approach. The intention is to address basic principles related to national …

The topic of this chapter is the rationale for innovation policy in advanced market economies.
Since innovation and its associates, invention and the diffusion of innovation, play such a …

The purpose of this paper is to develop the innovation system analysis by bringing together
the “institutional” and “organizational” dimensions of the process of innovation at the firm …

This article is concerned with innovation processes within firms, focusing mainly on
innovation within large corporations in advanced countries. It draws on empirical studies of …

The objective of this first survey paper is to improve the theory of innovation systems from the
perspective of the 'Knowledge Infrastructure'with its wealth of public and private agents …

In Lundvall (1992) I started the analysis of innovation systems from a characterization of the
current state of the economy as one where 'knowledge is the most important resource and …