How new regional growth paths emerge and what policy concepts are most adequate for
nurturing their evolution constitute recurring themes in regional innovation and development …

Purpose The aim of this paper is to highlight the impact of distributed leadership (DL) on
exploitative and exploratory innovations through the mediating effects of organizational trust …

This article discusses the idea of city as a platform. The analysis focuses on the forms and
implications of citizen involvement in publicly-supported participatory innovation platforms …

Over the past 20 years, the innovation system approach has significantly enhanced our
understanding of the innovation process, stressing its non-linear, systemic, interactive and …

Consistent with Marshallian/Porterian theories, the Norwegian cluster policy has been linked
to the development of specialized regional industry environments. Cluster projects are …

Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional
models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly …

The paper reflects on justifications for, and the proper design of, cohesion policies in a
period of deep economic recession. In particular, the paper tackles two important topics. The …

Open innovation platforms (OIPs) as a new tool fostering the convergence of innovation,
education, and research activities have been gaining popularity over the course of recent …

Since Paul David first published his economic histories of path-dependent innovation, the
subject has exerted fascination upon scholars of innovation and technological change and …

The knowledge base concept in the past was often applied in its “pure form”, ie it was
assumed that there are dominant knowledge bases in particular sectors and firms shaping …