This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of literature on innovation is characterized by a multitude of perspectives based on, or cutting across, existing disciplines and specializations. Scholars of innovation can come from such diverse starting points that much of this literature can be missed, and so constructive dialogues missed. The editors of The Oxford Handbook of Innovation have carefully selected and designed twenty-one contributions from leading academic experts within their particular field, each focusing on a specific aspect of innovation. These have been organized into four main sections, the first of which looks at the creation of innovations, with particular focus on firms and networks. Section Two provides an account of the wider systematic setting influencing innovation and the role of institutions and organizations in this context. Section Three explores some of the diversity in the working of innovation over time and across different sectors of the economy, and Section Four focuses on the consequences of innovation with respect to economic growth, international competitiveness, and employment. An introductory overview, concluding remarks, and guide to further reading for each chapter, make this handbook a key introduction and vital reference work for researchers, academics, and advanced students of innovation. Contributors to this volume - Jan Fagerberg, University of Oslo William Lazonick, INSEAD Walter W. Powell, Stanford University Keith Pavitt, SPRU Alice Lam, Brunel University Keith Smith, INTECH Charles Edquist, Linkoping David Mowery, University of California, Berkeley Mary O'Sullivan, INSEAD Ove Granstrand, Chalmers Bjorn Asheim, University of Lund Rajneesh Narula, Copenhagen Business School Antonello Zanfei, Urbino Kristine Bruland, University of Oslo Franco Malerba, University of Bocconi Nick Von Tunzelmann, SPRU Ian Miles, University of Manchester Bronwyn Hall, University of California, Berkeley Bart Verspagen , ECIS Francisco Louca, ISEG Manuel M. Godinho, ISEG Richard R. Nelson, Mario Pianta, Urbino Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Aalborg

The Oxford Handbook of Innovation

http://www.managingforimpact.org/sites/default/files/case/stilgoe_owen_macnaghten_2013_developing_a_framework_for_responsible_innovation.pdf

Developing a framework for responsible innovation

http://www.ausicom.com/filelib/researchlibrary/intermediaries_innov.pdf

Intermediation and the role of intermediaries in innovation

https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01133098/document

Innovation in services

Research on sustainability transitions has expanded rapidly in the last ten years, diversified in terms of topics and geographical applications, and deepened with respect to theories and methods. This article provides an extensive review and an updated research agenda for the field, classified into nine main themes: understanding transitions; power, agency and politics; governing transitions; civil society, culture and social movements; businesses and industries; transitions in practice and everyday life; geography of transitions; ethical aspects; and methodologies. The review shows that the scope of sustainability transitions research has broadened and connections to established disciplines have grown stronger. At the same time, we see that the grand challenges related to sustainability remain unsolved, calling for continued efforts and an acceleration of ongoing transitions. Transition studies can play a key role in this regard by creating new perspectives, approaches and understanding and helping to move society in the direction of sustainability.

An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

Reconceptualising the 'policy mix' for innovation

It has now been recognised that services play a vital role in advanced industrial economies In most European Union (EU) member states service activities now provide around two-thirds of all jobs and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and even higher proportion of total firms More particularly services have provided the bulk of new jobs in the European economy and in a number of strategically important service sectors the EU has established a competitive advantage over its major trading partners, including the US and Japan The contribution of services to technological innovation has also long been undervalued; service industries were seen as passive consumers of new technology, providing little or no input to innovation generation and diffusion This major study by two EIMS consultant teams, from PREST in the UK and TNO from the Netherlands and mentored by Dr Jeremy Howells of the University of Cambridge, seek to alter these outdated views of service innovation by focusing on a key service cluster involved in technological innovation, namely Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS)

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Knowledge-intensive business services: Users, carriers and sources of innovation

Public procurement accounts for a significant proportion of overall demand for goods and services and is increasingly seen as an attractive and feasible instrument for furthering the goals of innovation policy. However, public procurement is already expected to address a wide range of social goals. Much of the current debate about harnessing procurement to promote innovation draws upon a limited set of examples which are not representative of the bulk of public purchasing and tend to downplay diversity in procurement practices and in the types of goods and services procured. They also downplay diversity in the nature of innovations and in the range of ways that procurement can impact upon innovation. A one-size-fits-all model is unlikely to work across all procurement contexts yet all types of public procurement are likely to have impacts upon innovation by shaping the demand environment in which suppliers innovate and compete. We propose a framework and typology based on the nature of the goods and servi...

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Understanding the Innovation Impacts of Public Procurement

http://www.ccdr-lvt.pt/files/8d04a838c392d2f0d7ce838ada888ca1.pdf

Policies for science, technology and innovation:: Translating rationales into regional policies in a multi-level setting

A Comparative Study of the Purchase, Management and Use of Large-scale Research Equipment in the UK and US Universities (report for Evidence Ltd on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England)

Kieron Flanagan

Papers

Reconceptualising the 'policy mix' for innovation

Knowledge-intensive business services: Users, carriers and sources of innovation

Understanding the Innovation Impacts of Public Procurement

Policies for science, technology and innovation:: Translating rationales into regional policies in a multi-level setting

A Comparative Study of the Purchase, Management and Use of Large-scale Research Equipment in the UK and US Universities (report for Evidence Ltd on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England)