System Failures, Knowledge Bases and Regional Innovation Policies

Regional Policies, Key Levers of Regional Innovation Dynamics

Regions tend to become the relevant space for the analysis of public funding of innovation, as emphasised by numerous recent works. However, it is still to be demonstrated that the regional level is really the right spatial scaling for implementing innovation public policies. The aim of this paper is to provide a series of analytical and empirical elements that could help clarify this issue. Th...

Specifying Update Policies for Nonmonotonic Knowledge Bases

Recently, several approaches for updating knowledge bases represented as logic programs have been proposed. We present a generic framework for declarative specifications of update policies, which is built upon such approaches. It extends the LUPS language for update specifications, and incorporates the notion of events into the framework. An update policy allows an agent to flexibly react upon ...

Knowledge spill-overs, innovation and regional development

The Role of Regional Knowledge for Innovation

We investigate the contribution of different inputs, particularly different knowledge sources, on regional patenting output in the framework of a knowledge production function. The knowledge sources included are R&D employment, size of public research institutions by field of research (number of employees, budget), amount of university external research funds from private firms, public departme...

Holistic Design for Continuous Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Bases

Industry is facing the fourth revolution being forced to move from horizontal and vertical activity-sliced flows to instant dataand situation-driven communication and collaboration. To serve new markets and customers industry must deliver sustainable products and services to stay competitive, and new knowledge assets, design methodologies and ICT capabilities must be designed and implemented. C...