The current system of health technology development is characterised by multiple misalignments. The “supply” side (innovation policy-makers, entrepreneurs, investors) and the “demand” side (health policy-makers, regulators, health technology assessment, purchasers) operate under different – and conflicting – logics. The system is less a “pathway” than an unstable ecosystem of multiple interacti...

Abstract Social innovations (SIs) contribute to solving or at least mitigating many of the most pressing grand challenges. Similar profit-oriented innovations, which are mainly developed by existing organizations and entrepreneurs, SIs implemented individual actors - social innovators. While much literature examines needs entrepreneurs suggests entrepreneurial ecosystems as an adequate approach...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are an important determinant of productivity growth and innovation. This study examines the effects of sector regulation on innovation in telecommunications and related information industries. A typology of innovation processes in ICT industries is developed. The conditions conducive to innovation under varying economic conditions are explored t...

Recent developments in the new economic geography and the literature on regional innovation systems have emphasised the potentially important role of networking and the characteristics of firms’ local operating environment in shaping their innovative activity. Modelling UK, German and Irish plants’ investments in R&D, technology transfer and networking, and their effect on the extent and succes...