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This conclusion summarises the main findings and arguments presented in this book and reiterates the need for a comprehensive understanding of innovation intermediaries’ interventions and their roles in innovation processes and in policymaking. It further proposes some policy directions for the studied context, the New Space sector in peripheral countries, crucially in Scotland, as well as making final observations about the evolving nature of innovation intermediation, with particular reference to recent digitisation of the activities involved and likely policy agenda in the post-Covid-19 pandemic era.
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In contrast, we have seen in the limited comparison with Space-SI centre, that Slovenian policymakers should perhaps start deploying more business development interventions.
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Vidmar, M. (2020). Conclusion. In: Innovation Intermediaries and (Final) Frontiers of High-tech . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60642-8_7
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