Innovation intermediaries, that is, intermediary organisations that support firm-level and
collaborative innovation (henceforth: intermediaries), are a varied set of organisations that …

Collaboration among different stakeholders is acknowledged as a driver of innovation. This
is especially true in the context of regional and national innovation systems. However …

Innovation intermediaries provide support during innovation processes and contribute to
clients' innovativeness. In a growing body of literature, innovation intermediaries are …

This chapter provides an overview of the evolving definition of what is an innovation
intermediary and proposes its further extension to address the challenges of fragmentation …

The paper focuses on the issue of how to identify appropriate indicators to measure the
performance of publicly-funded innovation intermediaries. It argues that indicators need to …

This paper analyses how knowledge-based practices adopted by innovation intermediaries
enable them to generate value for themselves when collaborating with their clients. While …

A growing number of innovation policies rely on publicly-funded innovation intermediaries to
provide knowledge-intensive services to firms, particularly small-and medium-sized ones …

The decision to collaborate for companies in knowledge exchange processes has become
more complex due to a greater diversity of innovation intermediaries from companies …

Purpose Innovation intermediaries have become key actors in open innovation (OI) contexts.
Research has improved the understanding of the managerial challenges inherent to …

In the systems perspective on innovation, co-operation between several different types of
actors is seen as key to successful innovation. Due to the existence of several gaps that …