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Functions of innovation systems: A new approach for analysing technological change

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It is described that the emergence of a new innovation system and changes in existing innovation systems co-evolve with the process of technological change, and a method for systematically mapping those processes taking place in innovation systems and resulting in technological change is proposed.
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This article is published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.The article was published on 2007-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2263 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Innovation system & Technological innovation system.

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Rethinking Communication in Innovation Processes: Creating Space for Change in Complex Systems

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically rethinks the role of communication in innovation processes, starting from largely separate theoretical developments in communication science and innovation studies, and concludes that innovation is a collective process that involves the contextual reordering of relations in multiple social networks.
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Towards a theory of regional diversification : Combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework of regional diversification by combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies is proposed. But it does not consider the role of agency in processes of institutional entrepreneurship.
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“Green growth”: From a growing eco-industry to economic sustainability

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe some best practice cases of green growth and the conceptual generalisations given by the OECD and other established institutions in Europe and Asia, and evaluate the strategy that accompanies it.
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Visualizing the intellectual structure and evolution of innovation systems research: a bibliometric analysis

TL;DR: The study uses citation analysis to detect and visualize disciplinary distributions, keyword co-word networks and journal cocitation networks, highly cited references, as well as highly cited authors to identify intellectual turning points, pivotal points and emerging trends, in innovation systems system research from 1975 to 2012.
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Explaining the failure of the Dutch innovation system for biomass digestion : A functional analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the "functions of innovation systems" framework to analyze the role of government policy in both inducing and blocking the development of biomass energy conversion in the Netherlands.
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