Cross-border Innovation Intermediary: Insights from Institutional Perspective

Global Open Innovation and Policy Challenges

Global open innovation is not new to many small economies. Innovative firms are open to capabilities available beyond organizational and national boundaries. Cross-border collaboration is flourishing. Regions with strong cluster portfolios become innovation hubs, while regions with no clusters risk stagnation. Universities are critical in helping regions tap into global resources. Open innovati...

Understanding European Cross-border Cooperation: A Framework for Analysis

European integration has had a dual impact on border regions. On the one hand, borders were physically dismantled across most of the EU’s internal territory. On the other hand, they have become a fertile ground for territorial co-operation and institutional innovation. The degree of cross-border co-operation and organization achieved varies considerably from one region to another depending on a...

From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems : Insights about dynamics and change from sociology and institutional theory

In the last decade ‘sectoral systems of innovation’ have emerged as a new approach in innovation studies. This article makes four contributions to the approach by addressing some open issues. The first contribution is to explicitly incorporate the user side in the analysis. Hence, the unit of analysis is widened from sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems. The second contribu...

Disjointed Innovation: The Political Economy of Digitally Mediated Institutional Reform

National innovation systems and the intermediary role of industry associations in building institutional capacities for innovation in developing countries: A critical review of the literature

Developed over the past three decades, the national innovation system concept (NIS) has been widely used by both scholars and policy makers to explain how interactions between a set of distinct, nationally bounded institutions supports and facilitates technological change and the emergence and diffusion of new innovations. This concept provides a framework by which developing countries can adop...