Moving innovation systems research to the next level: Towards an integrative agenda

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 101-121

  Weber, K Matthias ^a   Truffer, Bernhard ^b,c  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Innovation policy; Innovation systems; Research agenda

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMIC POLICY; INNOVATION; RESEARCH;

EID: 85016212967     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grx002     Document Type: Article

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